# Ackerman Boat Company

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Ackerman Boat Company was a wooden shipbuilding company in Newport Beach, California. Ackerman Boat Company built small barges in Newport Harbor working with Star D Iron Works, in Santa Ana. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Ackerman Boat Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Army Harbor Tugboats and US Navy Landing Craft Mechanized Model LCM Mark 3. Clarence Ackerman started the Ackerman Boat Company was in 1943. Ackerman Boat Company worked with Consolidated Steel's Wilmington shipyard to build the Tugboat and Landing Craft. Near the end of the war, Ackerman sold the yard to Consolidated Steel but purchased it back in 1947. Ackerman sold the shipyard in 1958. The shipyard was at 151 Shipyard Way, Newport Beach on the Lido Peninsula at the corner of Rhine Place. The current site has been the Newport Harbor Shipyard since 1981, which repairs and restoration of yachts.

## Notable ships

* Four HDML, Harbour Defence Motor Launch, Motor Launch that had a displacement of 46 tons, a length of 72-feet, crew of 10 men. Armed with one 3 or 4-pounder gun and four .303 AA guns. Had a top speed of 11 knots with a Diesel engine with 300 to 480 HP.
* Small US Army MTL Harbor Tugboats, 14 model 324-A with a length of 47 feet, a beam of 12 feet. MTL is for Motor Towing Launch.
* Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 3, LCM (3) with a displacement of 52 tons full, 23 tons light. LCM Mark 3 are a length of 50 feet (15 m), a beam of 14 feet (4.3 m), a draft of 3 feet (0.91 m) (forward); 4 feet (1.2 m) (aft). LCM(3) as a top speed of 8 knots (9.2 mph) full and 11 knots (13 mph) lite. Armed with two .50-cal M2 Browning machine guns, manned by a crew of 4. The cargo hold has a max capacity of one 30-ton tank (e.g. M4 Sherman) or 60 troops, or 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) of cargo.
* US Army TP Harbor Tug with displacement 185 tons gross, a length of 96 feet, a beam 25 feet, a draft of 11 feet, Power one Fairbanks–Morse six cylinder diesel engine to a single propeller with 450 shp. The TP Hull classification symbol is for "Tug/Passenger". The US Army had 43 of this 96-foot tugs built for World War 2, Ackerman Boat Company built 15 of them.

## Ackerman Boat Company

Ackerman Boat Company boats built in 1943 and 1944:
| Ship ID | Name | Owner | Type | Length - Feet | Delivered | Notes |
| 284507 | MTL 1232 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | Sold and renamed Lohilani |
| 255210 | MTL 1233 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | Sold and renamed Kolomona |
| 261139 | MTL 1234 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | Sold and renamed Ehukai, Little Toot, now Claire |
| | MTL 1235 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | |
| 250689 | MTL 1236 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | Sold and renamed Wanda K |
| | MTL 1237 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | |
| | LCM(3) | US Navy | Lndg. Craft | 53 | 1943 | Quantity built not known |
| | HDML 1348 | US Navy | Launch | 72 | 1943 | To New Zealand |
| | HDML 1349 | US Navy | Launch | 72 | 1943 | To New Zealand |
| | HDML 1350 | US Navy | Launch | 72 | 1943 | To New Zealand |
| | HDML 1351 | US Navy | Launch | 72 | 1943 | To New Zealand |
| 260751 | TP 107 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Daring, Anna Gore, Seaspan Daring |
| | TP 108 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 109 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 110 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 111 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | renamed to Tartar, Bill Clark, Pacific Explorer |
| | TP 112 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 113 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 114 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 115 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 116 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 117 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 118 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | Renamed to Pacific, Edith Foss, Mavis Lynn |
| | TP 119 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 120 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| | TP 121 | US Army | Harbor Tug | 96 | 1944 | |
| 245601 | MTL ? | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Nyna Rose |
| 245892 | MTL ? | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed New Home |
| 245994 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Thelma Kay |
| 246519 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Two Nancies |
| 246806 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Norman H |
| 286909 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed H F Lauritzen |
| 289913 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1943 | Sold and renamed Tug 1061, now Viking |
| 557968 | MTL | US Army | Harbor Tug | 47 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Dixie Diver |
| 270852 | TP | US Army | Harbor Tug | 90 | 1944 | Sold and renamed Tiger-Horse |

## Consolidated Steel

Consolidated Steel boats with Consolidated Steel hull #, built in 1945 and 1946:
| Hull # | Ship ID | Name | Owner | Type | Tons | Feet | Delivered | Notes |
| 1320 | 248085 | Edward J. Engel | Atchison Topeka RR | Tug | 386 | 141 | May-45 | renamed to Respect, sank in Oakland in 2007 |
| 1347 | 248441 | Princess Pat | Otto C. Kiessig | Trawler | 238 | 90 | Jul-45 | |
| 1348 | 249580 | Lou Jean | Luigi Guidi | Trawler | 260 | 90 | 1945 | |
| 1349 | 250247 | Sport Fisher IV | Otto C. Kiessig | Passenger | 63 | 61 | 1946 | |
| 1350 | 251893 | Sport Fisher VI | Otto C. Kiessig | Passenger | 14 | 43 | 1946 | |
| 1351 | 249889 | Fatima | Cosimo Cutri | Trawler | 251 | 90 | 1946 | renamed to Sun Padre |
| 1518 | 251344 | American Boy | Joaquim Canas | Tuna Boat | 360 | 116 | Dec 1946 | Foundered in 1966 |
| 1519 | 251696 | Conte di Savoia | | Tuna Boat | 363 | 116 | Dec 1946 | renamed to Emperador Azteca in 1961 |

## Ackerman Boat Company

Ackerman Boat Company built from 1944 to 1957:
| Ship ID | Name | Owner | Type | Tons | Feet | Delivered | Notes |
| 246054 | Blanch Leo | Claude C. Withers | Fishing | 18 | 39 | 1944 | |
| 246110 | Endeavor | Joseph Randazzo | Fishing | 44 | 57 | 1944 | |
| 246873 | Island Girl | C. E. Ackerman | Yacht | 20 | 38 | 1944 | |
| 247282 | Clara Marie | Giuseppe Mangiapane | Fishing | 73 | 57 | 1945 | |
| 247499 | La Belle | William B. Crofton | Fishing | 73 | 57 | 1945 | |
| 248036 | Rose Ann | Tony Tarantino | Fishing | 73 | 57 | 1945 | |
| 248103 | Offshore | Frank J. Hall | Passenger | 14 | 42 | 1945 | |
| 248310 | Trojan | Sam C. Meserve | Fishing | 42 | 51 | 1945 | |
| 248370 | Joann Marie | Pietro Sanfilippo | Fishing | 37 | 51 | 1945 | |
| 248548 | U.S. Republic | George V. Castagnola | Fishing | 38 | 50 | 1945 | |
| 248782 | Zootzine II | Keith F. Rima | Fishing | 25 | 50 | 1945 | |
| 249608 | Skip-Along | Walter E. Pruessing | Passenger | 14 | 39 | 1946 | |
| 249975 | San Michele | Erwin A. Pierson | Fishing | 11 | 36 | 1946 | |
| 250018 | Kathie Jane | Ralph F. Osterode | Fishing | 31 | 42 | 1946 | |
| 250020 | Renown | Tom A. Zarkos | Fishing | 14 | 39 | 1946 | |
| 251001 | St. Rita | Donald Corona | Fishing | 23 | 41 | 1946 | |
| 251779 | Mary Ann | | Fishing | 109 | 68 | 1947 | |
| 252831 | Loretta Marie | | Fishing | 25 | 41 | 1947 | |
| 253118 | Alalunga | | Passenger | 86 | 61 | 1947 | |
| 254831 | San Mateo | | Fishing | 14 | 43 | 1948 | |
| 255378 | Wave Walker | | Fishing | 20 | 38 | 1948 | |
| 258073 | Amada | | Fishing | 11 | 33 | 1949 | |
| 273754 | Red's Rogue | | Recreational | 15 | 35 | 1957 | |
| 281616 | Angelina | | Recreational | 17 | 37 | 1957 | |
| 289711 | Madam | | Recreational | 15 | 35 | 1957 | |
| 290820 | Against the Wind | | Recreational | 15 | 37 | 1956 | |
| 502197 | Kaomi | | Recreational | 15 | 35 | 1956 | |
| 517337 | Golden Wings | | Recreational | 19 | 40 | 1956 | |
| 522757 | Miracle | | Recreational | 16 | 40 | 1957 | |
| 529865 | Concubine | | Recreational | 15 | 35 | 1956 | |
| 532262 | Owlheart | | Recreational | 15 | 35 | 1957 | renamed Nokomis |