Gulfport Shipbuilding

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.