A Scottish shipbuilding family who ran two Bay yards in succession and produced, in the next generation, both the chief engineer of Union Iron Works and the naval architect whose six thousand drawings survive at San Francisco Maritime.
- Founders
- John Watson Dickie (1842–1927), Scottish-born, emigrated to San Francisco in 1870, and his brother James S. Dickie
- Dickie Bros.
- Founded 1871 at Potrero Point; failed in 1883 after an unpaid $350,000 Mexican gunboat contract
- John W. Dickie & Son
- Alameda Inner Harbor; closed 1907. A mill and shipyard at Raymond, Washington followed, 1906–07
- Next generation
- David A. Dickie (1880–1968), John W.'s son and partner; David W. Dickie, the naval architect, understood to be James S. Dickie's son; George W. Dickie, chief engineer of Union Iron Works
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- Three men in this family were called David or George Dickie and are easily conflated. The atlas separates them; the placement of David W. as James S. Dickie's son rests on a finding-aid note.
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