Harbor Boat Building Company

33°44′17″N 118°16′04″W / 33.738035°N 118.267862°W / 33.738035; -118.267862

Harbor Boat Building's Adjutant-class minesweeper USS Peacock in 1969
A US Navy 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser in July 1943.
A US Navy 63-foot (19 m) air-sea rescue boat.

Harbor Boat Building Company was a shipbuilding company on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California. To support the World War II demand for ships General Engineering built: minesweepers, torpedo boats, submarine chasers, and air-sea rescue boats. In 1919 Romolo Rados founded Harbor Boat Building. After the war he renamed the company Harco Shipyard and built and sold a standard design motor boat. In 1959 he sold the company to LTV. The shipyard was closed and the company was sold again in 1971 to Omega-Alpha, Inc. The last ship built was in 1965 for the US Navy. The shipyard was located at 263 Wharf St, San Pedro.[1]

  1. ^ shipbuildinghistory.com, Harbor Boatbuilding