A century-long San Francisco small-craft yard: launches, rowboats, lifeboats, cruisers — and more than five thousand craft for two world wars.
- Founder
- George Washington Kneass
- Sites
- 22 Mission Street; 671 Illinois Street at Pier 70 in partnership with Martin Vice; a second yard at 718 3rd Street from 1898; an emergency shipyard in 1941
- Succession
- Sons George Jr. and Webster Kneass; the yard operated until 1970
- War output
- Over 5,000 craft including patrol boats, minesweepers and SC-497-class subchasers
- 1882Pacific — 18-ft schooner, sailed across the Pacific
- —USS Nasomee (YTB-260)
- 1918Peruvian Navy patrol boats
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- The available source gives a founding of 1868 and a founder born in 1859 — internally inconsistent. One of the two dates is wrong; the source does not say which.
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