Vigor Shipyards was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation through the merger of Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company of Erie Basin

Graving Dock at Red Hook

The Graving Dock at Red Hook is located at the Todd Shipyards in Red Hook, Brooklyn.It is considered eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. Currently there are plans by the IKEA to turn it into a parking lot.-See also:*...

, Brooklyn, New York, the Tietjen & Long Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey

Hoboken, New Jersey

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, and the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company. The Seattle shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 could trace its history back to 1882, when Robert Moran

Robert Moran (shipbuilder)

Robert Moran was a prominent Seattle shipbuilder who served as the city's mayor from 1888 to 1890.A native of New York City, Moran was 18 when, in 1875, he arrived penniless in Seattle, a frontier outpost in the Pacific Northwest, which had been settled in November 1851, and only incorporated...

 opened a marine repair shop at Yesler's Wharf. This shop became the Moran Brothers Shipyard in 1906 and the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Company at the end of 1911.

Vigor has performed building and maintenance work for, among others, the U.S.

United States Navy

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 and Royal Australian

Royal Australian Navy

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 Navies, the United States Coast Guard

United States Coast Guard

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, and the Washington State Ferries

Washington State Ferries

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. Its headquarters and operations are on Harbor Island

Harbor Island

Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of Seattle, Washington's Duwamish Waterway where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Harbor Island was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres...

 at the mouth of Seattle's Duwamish Waterway.

The 105 feet (32 m)-long hull of Disneyland's Mark Twain Riverboat

Mark Twain Riverboat

The Mark Twain Riverboat is an attraction, located at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, on which passengers embark on a scenic, 12-minute journey around the Rivers of America. Originally named the Mark Twain Steamboat when the park opened in 1955, the stately, 5/8-scale...

 was built at Todd Shipyards in San Pedro, California in 1955.

In February 2011, Vigor Industrial purchased Todd for $130 million. This included the Seattle, Everett and Bremerton operations.

Divisions

• Seattle Division, Seattle, Washington
  Seattle, Washington
  Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
  
  . (47.586°N 122.357°W)
• Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California. (33.753°N 118.280°W) Formerly Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation, closed in 1989 following completion of its Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
  Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
  The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of frigates named after the American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie...
  
   contract and after failing to win an Arleigh Burke class destroyer
  Arleigh Burke class destroyer
  The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers is the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh "31-Knot" Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of...
  
   contract. Property is now part of the Port of Los Angeles
  Port of Los Angeles
  The Port of Los Angeles, also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT L.A, is a port complex that occupies of land and water along of waterfront. The port is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately south of downtown...
  
  , and has been completely converted into Berth 100 / West Basin Container Terminal.
• San Francisco Division, Alameda, California
  Alameda, California
  Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is adjacent to Oakland in the San Francisco Bay. The Bay Farm Island portion of the city is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. At the 2010 census, the city had a...
  
  . (37.79°N 122.29°W) Opened 1901, by United Engineering Company, later named Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard, then Todd San Francisco Division, 1949. Now closed. Documented by the Historic American Engineering Record as United Engineering Company Shipyard, survey HAER CA-295.
  • Mostly used as a repair or conversion facility

External links

• Homepage
• Todd Pacific Shipyards - FAS.org
• Todd Shipyard's Graving Dock Named to Seven to Save List
• Todd Shipyard's Graving Dock preservation efforts - Contains inks to historical background about Todd Shipyards Corporation.