Madden & Lewis Company

A Sausalito yard on Richardson Bay, founded by J. Herbert Madden Sr., that built pleasure craft in peacetime, harbour tugs and motor launches in war, and employed Myron Spaulding while doing it.

Founder

James Herbert Madden Sr., active in the Sausalito Yacht Club; his role in the Bird class brief is documented separately

War output

Five 60-ft YTL harbour tugs (YTL 316–320); four 76-ft Harbour Defence Motor Launches, all transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy; wooden subchasers

Notable employee

Myron Spaulding worked here during WWII

Other business

Owned the Sausalito-side operations of the Golden Gate Ferry Company before the bridge

Fire

19 March 1960

• 1921Osprey, Bird No. 1 — per one account; another credits W. F. Stone & Son — see the Bird class entry
• 1940sYTL 316–320 — 60-ft, 70-ton diesel harbour tugs
• 1940sHarbour Defence Motor Launches — four, 76 ft, to the RNZN