Question: What company was a steel and shipbuilding company that began operations in 1904 and helped to launch the USS Cushing on 30 September 1943?
Sentence (from "USS Artisan (ABSD-1)"): USS "Artisan" (ABSD-1), later redesignated as (AFDB-1), a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock, was the only ship of the United States Navy given this name.
Relevant evidence: No