Smith Shipyard

Pensacola Shipbuilding Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ketler-Elliot Erection Company of Chicago, created for the war effort. It continued in peacetime and was an active boatbuilder in WWII under the ownership of C. W. Smith. The yard was operational during WWII (Between 1944-1945) and build some 25 ships for the US Navy and US Army. The yard was located at the foot of Myrick Street, on the eastern shore of Bayou Chico, and is today a part of the Pensacola Shipyard Marine Complex. (Pensacola, Florida)