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Port Arthur, TX
United States

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Status: 
Historical
Timeframe: 
1930 to 1985
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Ceased activities

About this company

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Gulfport Shipbuilding Corporation (also called Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works) was a shipbuilding company at Port Arthur, Texas, formed as Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works opened in 1930. For World War II Gulfport built Tank Barges a Type B ship and Tugboats a Type V ship.
It closed in 1985, after the offshore market collapsed but had, in any case, been threatened with eviction by its landlord, the Kansas City & Southern Railroad.

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