Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders

Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders was a shipbuilding company in Stockton, California on the Stockton Channel. To support the World War II demand for ships Hickinbotham Brothers built: Type V ship Tugboats, Tank Landing Barge, balloon barges and Coastal Freighter (design 381, 381 tons). Hickinbotham Brothers also called Hickinbotham Brothers Construction Division was opened in 1852 and is still a working shipyard. Hickinbotham Brothers started by building: horse carriages, horse wagons, threshers and Combine harvester. In 1942 Ronald Guntert and L. R. Zimmerman ran the company as a partnership on the Banner Island waterfront. After World War II, Guntert and Zimmerman purchased Hickinbotham out and renamed the company Guntert & Zimmerman Construction. In 1984 the company moved to Ripon, California on the Stanislaus River, as the business continues. The Banner Island waterfront yard was on the deepwater port on the Stockton Ship Channel of the Pacific Ocean and an inland port located more than seventy nautical miles from the ocean, on the Stockton Channel and San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel (before it joins the Sacramento River to empty into Suisun Bay. Noteable ship: USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177).[1][2][3][4]

Hickinbotham Brothers in 1894 in Stockton, California

Ships

Original Name name or #Original OwnerTypeDeliveredNotesFeetTonsHull #Ship ID# O.N.
BTL 455US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/43Sank on August 2, 1943 off Shemya Island50
BTL 456US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 457US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 458US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 459US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 460US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 461US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 462US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 463US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 464US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 465US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 466US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 467US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 468US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 469US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 470US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 471US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 472US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 473US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 474US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 546US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BTL 547US ArmyTank Landing Barge12/42-1/4350
BD 482US ArmyDerrick Barge3/43-4/43Sold as Beaver110602235
BD 483US ArmyDerrick Barge3/43-4/43Sold as Shelby110252566
BD ?US ArmyDerrick Barge6/43-9/43Sold as Hercules, now D. B. Portland110561614
BD 799US ArmyDerrick Barge6/43-9/43110
BD 800US ArmyDerrick Barge6/43-9/43110
BD 801US ArmyDerrick Barge6/43-9/43110
BD 802US ArmyDerrick Barge6/43-9/43110
ST 146US ArmySmall Tug6/43-10/4374
ST ?US ArmySmall Tug6/43-10/43Sold as Mary Ann Brusco74247288
ST 147US ArmySmall Tug6/43-10/4374
ST 148US ArmySmall Tug6/43-10/4374
ST 149US ArmySmall Tug6/43-10/43To Portugal 1953 as Monte Grande74
BSP 1621US ArmySP Balloon BargeSep-4352
BSP 1622US ArmySP Balloon BargeSep-4352
BB 1623US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1624US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1625US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/43Sold as Cavale52571056
BB 1626US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1627US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1628US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1629US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1630US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1631US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1632US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4352
BB 1633US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1634US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1635US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1636US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1637US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1638US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1639US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1640US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1641US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
BB 1642US ArmyBalloon Barge9/43-10/4375
US ArmyTender194462
US ArmyTender194462
FS 404US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG to the Philippines as Venus176560
FS 405US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG, to the Philippines as Vizcaya176560
FS 406US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG, lost in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945176560
FS 407US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG, to USN AKL 31 in 1950, to DoI 1975 as Robert de Brum176560
FS 408US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG176560
FS 409US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG176560
FS 410US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG, sank in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945176560
FS 411US ArmyCoastal Freighter10/44-4/45USCG, to USN 1950 as USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177), wrecked on reef in 2015, Beam 32', Draft 14' 3, Speed 12 kts., crew 26, two 500 hp GE Diesel engines176560
White StarFishing Vessel1946Now Ciudad de Mexico, Frist Guntert & Zimmerman441
Ferry No. 14San Joaquin Co.Ferry19465036538925
VictoriasVictorias MillingTug1947111
BD 6646US ArmyDerrick Barge1954To USN as YD 218, sold 19671401,000
BD 6652US ArmyDerrick Barge1954To USN as YD 222, reclassified as IX 536 20021401,000
OtterTrucano Const.Tug19616450287019

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