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William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1825 by William Cramp, and was the preeminent U.S. iron shipbuilder in the 19th century. The American Ship & Commerce Corporation bought the yard in 1919 but closed it in 1927 as fewer ships were ordered by the U.S. Navy after passage of the Naval Limitations Treaty in 1923. In 1940, the Navy spent $22 million to reopen the yard to build cruisers and submarines. Cramp closed in 1947, and the site, on the Delaware River, became an industrial park. Bordering the yard were smokestacks of the Philadelphia Electric Company on one side and a line of the Reading Railroad on the other.
Notable projects
- USS Indiana, Battleship No. 1 of the United States Navy, launched 28 February 1893.
- Russian cruiser Varyag (1899) contracted by Russian Imperial Admiralty, launched October 31, 1899. The cruiser was sunk by the crew in Russo-Japanese War, salvaged by Japanese and then reclaimed by Russians.
- On 8 December 1942, the keel to the Cleveland Class light cruiser, designated CL-91, was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, PA. On 22 April 1943, Oklahomans were outraged, having just learned that the Japanese had executed the captured American pilots from Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid over Tokyo. That same day, booths were set up in Oklahoma City with the a goal to sell $40 million in War Bonds to fund the construction of a cruiser. That goal was topped by $5 million when the booths closed that night. CL-91 now became the USS Oklahoma City.
- The last ship Cramp's built was the cruiser USS Galveston, launched on April 22, 1945.
See also
- Delaware River
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- Lewis Nixon and Arthur Leopold Busch, naval architects who worked with Cramp & Sons.
References
- "William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
- "Cramp & Sons". Builders. Destroyer History Foundation (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
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