# Kyle and Company

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Kyle & Company or Kyle & Co was a steel shipbuilding company in Stockton, California. To support the World War II demand for ships Kyle & Company built: coastal tankers and Type B ship deck barges. Kyle & Company was opened as a manufacturer of steel products and build ships for the war. After World War II, the shipyard closed in 1950 and was purchased by Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. Kyle & Company also made steel products in Fresno and Sacramento. The shipyard was located on the Stockton Channel at 348 North Harrison Street, now a parking lot near Banner Stadium and Stockton Arena. The Kyle & Company shipyard was on the deepwater port on the Stockton Ship Channel of the Pacific Ocean and an inland port located more than seventy nautical miles from the ocean, on the Stockton Channel and San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel (before it joins the Sacramento River to empty into Suisun Bay).

## Coastal tanker

Kyle and Company coastal tankers had a displacement of 484 tons, length of 162 feet, beam of 27 feet, a draft of 13 feet, top speed of 9 kts, and crew of 23, including gun crew of 6. The tanker had two single 20mm AA guns and fuel cargo capacity of 280,000 gal. It was powered by one 6-cyl diesel engine, with a single screw and had 400 shp.

## Deck barge

Kyle and Company built deck barges that had a length of 110 feet, a beam of 35 feet, a draft of 6 feet, light displacement of 170 tons, full displacement of 500 tons, and deadweight of 330 tons.

## Ships

| Original name or # | Original owner | Type | Delivered | Notes | Tons | Feet | Ship ID# O.N. |
| BC 522 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 523 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 524 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 525 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 526 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 527 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 528 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 529 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 530 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | Sold as GC 21 | | 110 | 253379 |
| BC 531 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 532 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 533 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 534 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BC 535 | US Army | Deck barge | 9/42-12/42 | | | 110 | |
| BG 1182 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | | | 120 | |
| BG 1183 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | Sold as P. S. No. 76 | | 120 | 250925 |
| BG 1184 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | Sold as ST 20 | | 120 | 269612 |
| BG 1185 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | Sold as Manson 45 | | 120 | 269689 |
| BG 1186 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | | | 120 | |
| BG 1187 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | | | 120 | |
| BG 1188 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | | | 120 | |
| BG 1189 | US Army | Gasoline barge | Apr-43 | | | 120 | |
| Y 28 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 29 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | Sold 1946 as J. J. Kelly | 484 | 162 | 255610 |
| Y 30 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | Sold 1946 as Argo | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 31 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | To Norway 1946 as Liten | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 32 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | To Honduras 1946 as Ana | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 33 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | To Norway 1946 as Angelus | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 34 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | To Honduras 1946 as Tania | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 35 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 1/44-6/44 | To the Philippines 1946 as Y 35 | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 44 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 7/44-9/44 | | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 45 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 7/44-9/44 | To the Philippines 1946 as Y 45 | 484 | 162 | |
| Y 46 | US Army | Coastal tanker | 7/44-9/44 | To USAF 1946 as C-50-1171 | 484 | 162 | |
| YC 1419 | US Navy | Open lighter | 1952 | Active | 170 | 110 | |
| YFN 1163 | US Navy | Closed lighter | 1952 | Active | 160 | 110 | |
| YFN 1191 | US Navy | Closed lighter | 1952 | Scrapped 1996 | 140 | 110 | |
| YFNX 30 | US Navy | Closed lighter | 1952 | Sold 2007 as Discovery (Panama) | 140 | 110 | |
| YO 231 | US Navy | Tank barge | | | | | |