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Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard
39°13′7.1″N 76°29′24.4″W / 39.218639°N 76.490111°W
The Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard was a shipyard founded as Maryland Steel in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, in 1887 and still in operation in the 2020s under new ownership and a new name. It was first acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. It was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries Inc. In 2012, it was owned by Barletta Industries, which had converted it to the Sparrows Point Shipyard and Industrial Complex. As of 2021, it is owned by Sparrows Point Terminal, LLC, and has been renamed Tradepoint Atlantic.
Maryland Steel built tugs, coastal passengers, dredges, cargo ships, and a few destroyers. Following its purchase by Bethlehem Steel, it serviced and repaired ships and manufactured industrial products.[citation needed] One famous vessel built in this early period was the Ancon, launched as Shawmut, which, in 1914, was the first ship to transit the Panama Canal.
Facilities at the yard included a graving dock, a floating drydock and two full-service outfitting piers which together provided nearly 3,000 feet of berthing space.[citation needed]
During World War II, the Sparrows Point Shipyard built ships as part of the U.S. government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program to help re-build the British Merchant Navy. Liberty ship production was a primary goal of the yard.[citation needed] The shipyard also constructed 21 Cimarron-class oilers from 1938 to 1946.
Once part of a chain of 17 shipyards operating under BethShip, the Sparrows Point Shipyard was the only location remaining by 1990.[citation needed]
In October 1997, the shipyard was sold to the Veritas Capital Fund, a New York-based merchant banking and investment firm which built a $300 million cold rolling mill complex on the site which opened in 1999. Veritas reorganized the facility as Baltimore Marine Industries, Inc. (BMI) and won two US Navy contracts for new ship construction and dismantling of older tonnage.
Although BMI was selected to build a fleet of deluxe cruise ships, the cruise line was never able to secure financing.[citation needed] With no orders on the horizon and no work aside from the two modest Navy contracts, BMI collapsed in bankruptcy in 2003.
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Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard
39°13′7.1″N 76°29′24.4″W / 39.218639°N 76.490111°W
The Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard was a shipyard founded as Maryland Steel in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, in 1887 and still in operation in the 2020s under new ownership and a new name. It was first acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. It was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries Inc. In 2012, it was owned by Barletta Industries, which had converted it to the Sparrows Point Shipyard and Industrial Complex. As of 2021, it is owned by Sparrows Point Terminal, LLC, and has been renamed Tradepoint Atlantic.
Maryland Steel built tugs, coastal passengers, dredges, cargo ships, and a few destroyers. Following its purchase by Bethlehem Steel, it serviced and repaired ships and manufactured industrial products.[citation needed] One famous vessel built in this early period was the Ancon, launched as Shawmut, which, in 1914, was the first ship to transit the Panama Canal.
Facilities at the yard included a graving dock, a floating drydock and two full-service outfitting piers which together provided nearly 3,000 feet of berthing space.[citation needed]
During World War II, the Sparrows Point Shipyard built ships as part of the U.S. government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program to help re-build the British Merchant Navy. Liberty ship production was a primary goal of the yard.[citation needed] The shipyard also constructed 21 Cimarron-class oilers from 1938 to 1946.
Once part of a chain of 17 shipyards operating under BethShip, the Sparrows Point Shipyard was the only location remaining by 1990.[citation needed]
In October 1997, the shipyard was sold to the Veritas Capital Fund, a New York-based merchant banking and investment firm which built a $300 million cold rolling mill complex on the site which opened in 1999. Veritas reorganized the facility as Baltimore Marine Industries, Inc. (BMI) and won two US Navy contracts for new ship construction and dismantling of older tonnage.
Although BMI was selected to build a fleet of deluxe cruise ships, the cruise line was never able to secure financing.[citation needed] With no orders on the horizon and no work aside from the two modest Navy contracts, BMI collapsed in bankruptcy in 2003.