# Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders

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Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders was a shipbuilding company in Stockton, California on the Stockton Channel. To support the World War II demand for ships Hickinbotham Brothers built: Type V ship Tugboats, Tank Landing Barge, balloon barges and Coastal Freighter (design 381, 381 tons). Hickinbotham Brothers also called Hickinbotham Brothers Construction Division was opened in 1852 and is still a working shipyard. Hickinbotham Brothers started by building: horse carriages, horse wagons, threshers and Combine harvester. In 1942 Ronald Guntert and L. R. Zimmerman ran the company as a partnership on the Banner Island waterfront. After World War II, Guntert and Zimmerman purchased Hickinbotham out and renamed the company Guntert & Zimmerman Construction. In 1984 the company moved to Ripon, California on the Stanislaus River, as the business continues. The Banner Island waterfront yard 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. Notable ship: USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177).

## Ships

| Original Name name or # | Original Owner | Type | Delivered | Notes | Feet | Tons | Ship ID# O.N. |
| BTL 455 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | Sank on August 2, 1943 off Shemya Island | 50 | | |
| BTL 456 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 457 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 458 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 459 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 460 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 461 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 462 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 463 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 464 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 465 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 466 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 467 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 468 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 469 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 470 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 471 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 472 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 473 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 474 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 546 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BTL 547 | US Army | Tank Landing Barge | 12/42-1/43 | | 50 | | |
| BD 482 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 3/43-4/43 | Sold as Beaver | 110 | | 602235 |
| BD 483 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 3/43-4/43 | Sold as Shelby | 110 | | 252566 |
| BD ? | US Army | Derrick Barge | 6/43-9/43 | Sold as Hercules, now D. B. Portland | 110 | | 561614 |
| BD 799 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 6/43-9/43 | | 110 | | |
| BD 800 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 6/43-9/43 | | 110 | | |
| BD 801 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 6/43-9/43 | | 110 | | |
| BD 802 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 6/43-9/43 | | 110 | | |
| ST 146 | US Army | Small Tug | 6/43-10/43 | | 74 | | |
| ST ? | US Army | Small Tug | 6/43-10/43 | Sold as Mary Ann Brusco | 74 | | 247288 |
| ST 147 | US Army | Small Tug | 6/43-10/43 | | 74 | | |
| ST 148 | US Army | Small Tug | 6/43-10/43 | | 74 | | |
| ST 149 | US Army | Small Tug | 6/43-10/43 | To Portugal 1953 as Monte Grande | 74 | | |
| BSP 1621 | US Army | SP Balloon Barge | Sep-43 | | 52 | | |
| BSP 1622 | US Army | SP Balloon Barge | Sep-43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1623 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1624 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1625 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | Sold as Cavale | 52 | | 571056 |
| BB 1626 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1627 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1628 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1629 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1630 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1631 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1632 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 52 | | |
| BB 1633 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1634 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1635 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1636 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1637 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1638 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1639 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1640 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1641 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| BB 1642 | US Army | Balloon Barge | 9/43-10/43 | | 75 | | |
| | US Army | Tender | 1944 | | 62 | | |
| | US Army | Tender | 1944 | | 62 | | |
| FS 404 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG to the Philippines as Venus | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 405 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG, to the Philippines as Vizcaya | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 406 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG, lost in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945 | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 407 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG, to USN AKL 31 in 1950, to DoI 1975 as Robert de Brum | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 408 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 409 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 410 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG, sank in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945 | 176 | 560 | |
| FS 411 | US Army | Coastal Freighter | 10/44-4/45 | USCG, to USN 1950 as USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177), wrecked on reef in 2015, Beam 32', Draft 14' 3, Speed 12 kts., crew 26, two 500 hp GE Diesel engines | 176 | 560 | |
| White Star | | Fishing Vessel | 1946 | Now Ciudad de Mexico, Frist Guntert & Zimmerman | | 441 | |
| Ferry No. 14 | San Joaquin Co. | Ferry | 1946 | | 50 | 36 | 538925 |
| Victorias | Victorias Milling | Tug | 1947 | | | 111 | |
| BD 6646 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 1954 | To USN as YD 218, sold 1967 | 140 | 1,000 | |
| BD 6652 | US Army | Derrick Barge | 1954 | To USN as YD 222, reclassified as IX 536 2002 | 140 | 1,000 | |
| Otter | Trucano Const. | Tug | 1961 | | 64 | 50 | 287019 |