Levingston Shipbuilding Company - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Marker Number: 14471 Marker Text: In 1859, three brothers, Samuel, David and John Levingston, arrived in Orange from Ireland and purchased an existing shipyard, where they built wooden ships for more than thurty years. The sone of Samuel Levingston, "Captain" George Levingston, established his own shipbuilding business in 1919-1920. In 1930, Levingston purchased five acres at Front and Mill Streets in Orange, enlarging his operation, and Levingston Shipbuilding Company operated from this location fro the remainder of its existence. Incorporation in 1933 sustained the company during the slow economic times of the 1930s. Edward T. Malloy was hired in 1939 as a general manager, and stayed with the company for thirty-seven years, becoming presdient of the company when he bought the controlling interest in 1945. World War II brought a vast influx of business--the company had begun construction of military vesselsbefore the Unted States entered the war, and continued to be a major supplier for the Army and Navy during the duration. Levingston Shipbuilding delivered its first velssel for the war effort, a 530-ton steel tuboat named Tuscarora on December 13, 1941. Between 1941 and 1945, Levinston built and delviered a total of 160 vessels for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army including tugs, tankers, barges and ocean going rescue tugs. After World War II, Levingston Shipbuilding changed with the economic times and became a worldwide leader in the design, engineering and construction of off-shore drilling rigs, jack-up platforms, and self-propelled drilling ships. Levingston Shipbuilding was the only U.S. builder of all five types of offshore drilling rigs until it cesed operations in 1985. (2008) Marker is Property of the State of Texas

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