Eureka Shipbuilding built YT 718, a V2-M-AL1 tugboat drydock 8 November 1945
Eureka Shipbuilding was a wooden shipbuilding company in Eureka, California. The shipyard was just south of town in Fields Landing on the South Bay of Humboldt Bay. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Eureka Shipbuilding shipyard switched over to military construction and built: United States Marine Corpstugboatss. Eureka Shipbuilding was started in 1941. On January 25, 1943 Eureka Ship Builders, Inc. was awarded a contract to build six V2-M-AL1 tugboats at a cost of $35,970 each, contact number DA-MCc-824. V2-M-AL1 tus is a class of Type V ship. The V2-M-AL1 is also called a Port Sewall class tug. V2-V2-M-AL1 tugs were named for American ports. All of Eureka Shipbuilding tug were used for Lend-Lease use to Britain as type TUSA tugs.
After the war in 1947 the company was renamed `[1][2][3]
V2-M-AL1 tugboats were: Wood hull, 90 tons, a beam of 19 feet, had a diesel engine with 240 horsepower, fuel Oil tanks with 1920 gallons. Other Built V2-M-AL1 were built by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Standard Shipbuilding, Steinbach Iron works, Arlington Shipbuilding, Texas Shipbuilding, Siletz Boatworks, Blair Company, and Marinette Marine.[4][5]
Eureka Shipbuilding ships
Tugboats, V2-M-AL1 Port Sewall class:
Hull #
Ship ID
Name
Owner
Type
#
Tons
Feet.
Delivered
Notes
1
Port Costa
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1566
90d
66
Jan-44
To Britain as a TUSA as YN 1
2
Port San Luis
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1567
90d
66
Feb-44
To Britain as a TUSA as YN 2
3
Port Chicago
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1568
90d
66
Mar-44
To Britain as a TUSA as YN 3
4
Port Gamble
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1569
90d
66
Apr-44
To Britain as a TUSA as YN 4
5
Port Tobacco
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1570
90d
66
Jun-44
To Britain as a TUSA as YN 5
6
254364
Port Haywood
U.S.M.C.
V2-M-AL1
1571
90d
66
Jul-44
To Britain as TUSA 229, to USN as YT 718, sold 1947 as Limpiar VI (YTL= Yard tug, little) [6]
