Peyton_Company

Peyton Company

Peyton Company

Shipyard in Newport Beach, California, United States

33.613271°N 117.891901°W / 33.613271; -117.891901

USS SC-772 Sub Chaser, built by Peyton Company in 1943

The Peyton Company, also called Peyton Marine Service and Supplies, was a wooden shipbuilding and dry dock company in Newport Beach, California.

The shipyard was started by J. W. Peyton (1875-?), born in Texas, and his wife Anabel Peyton (1886-?). The shipyard was later owned by his sons, C. R. Peyton (1911-?) and R. P. Peyton (1919-?), a naval architect. The Peyton Company purchased the shipyard from the Balboa Marina Hardware Company, owned by Westin T. Jay.

The Peyton Company built civilian boats, yachts and fishing boats, in Newport Harbor. To support the World War II demand for ships, the Peyton Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built Army harbor tugboats and Navy sub chasers. The Peyton Company leased Newport Harbor waterfront land to build these ships. After the war, in 1945 the shipyard closed, partly due to the two deaths in the family. The shipyard office was at 901 Pacific Coast Hwy, Newport Beach.[1] [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Notable ships

  • US Navy submarine chaser that had a displacement of 148 tons, a length of 110 feet, a beam 17 feet, a draft of 6 feet top speed of 21 knots. A crew of 28. Armed with: one 40mm gun, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "K Gun," and two depth charge tracks. Powered with two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines to two shafts.[9] [10]
  • US Army TP harbor tug with displacement 185 tons gross, a length of 97 feet, a beam 25 feet, a draft of 11 feet, Power one Fairbanks–Morse six cylinder diesel engine to a single propeller with 450 shp. The TP is for "Tug/Passenger". The US Army had 43 of this 96-foot tugs built for World War II, Peyton Company built 4 of them. [11][12]
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References

  1. [1]
    Peyton Company shipbuildinghistory.com
  2. [2]
    Orange County’s World War II Military Bases
  3. [3]
    Motor Boating Magazine, Nov. 1944, page 60, Vol. 74, No. 5
  4. [4]
    Motor Boating Magazine, Oct 1942, Page 60, Vol. 70, No. 4, page 60
  5. [5]
    Motor Boating Magazine, Sep 1942, Page 64, Vol. 70, No. 3
  6. [6]
    Pacific Marine Review, 1944, Page 137
  7. [7]
    Santa Ana Register from Santa Ana, California, Page 3, February 15, 1940
  8. [8]
    1940 U.S. Census, Newport Beach, Orange, California
  9. [9]
    USS Sub Chaser SC-772
  10. [10]
    USS Sub Chaser SC-772 navsource
  11. [11]
    USAV TP-123 navsource.org
  12. [12]
    U.S. Army Tug-Transports (T, TP) shipbuildinghistory.com
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