Pacific Coast Engineering

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[[File:Fireboat Snoqualmie, 1920.jpg|thumb|right| [[Snoqualmie (fireboat)|The ''Snoqualmie'']] at her moorings in 1920|350x350px]]
[[File:Seattle fireboat Alki -- 1940.jpg|thumb|right| [[Alki (boat)|The ''Alki'']] showing off in 19400|350x350px]]
US Navy 060825-N-0856O-527 The Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola-based Navy Helicopter Landing Trainer (HLT) IX-514 transports a TH-57 helicopter from NAS Whiting Field.jpg
'''Pacific Coast Engineering''' or '''PACECO''' was a [[shipbuilding]] company in [[Oakland, California]] and [[Alameda, California]]. To support the [[World War 2]] demand for ships PACECO [[shipyard]] switched over to military construction and built: [[US Navy]] [[Tugboats]]s. PACECO was started in 1922 in Oakland. PACECO was started as a mechanical engineering company. The Oakland shipyard was acquired by the US. Navy in 1940 for World War 2 needs. PACECO moved the shipyard to 350 Blanding Avenue, Alameda. The new yard did prefab subassemblies the other bay area shipyards, like the [[Richmond Shipyards]]. In 1943 built its first of five US Navy tugboats. After the war PACECO built tugboats, barges, and container cranes. PACECO was sold to Fruehauf Corp. in 1967. Fruehauf ended shipbuilding in 1976 and moved to just a [[container crane]] and [[Container chassis]] building. The Alameda shipyard was on the south side of the Tidal Canal, just west of the Park Street bridge. <ref>[https://ift.tt/3qukAJR ''shipbuildinghistory.com'' Paceco]</ref>

==Ships==
Notable ships:
*[[Baylander (IX-514)]]
* [[Alki (boat)|Alki Fire Boat]]
* [[Snoqualmie (fireboat)]]
* Five [[Woban Class District Harbor Tug]]: Mawkaw (YT 182), Negwagon (YT 188), Nepanet (YT 189), Orono (YT 190) and Osamekin (YT 191). Each with a displacement of 237 tons, a length of 100 feet, a beam 28 feet, a draft 9 feet. Top speed 12 kts, crew of 17 and power from a Diesel-electric, single propeller with 1,000shp. <ref>[https://ift.tt/2NCCfQX Negwagon (YTM-188), ''navsource'']</ref>

==See also==
*[[California during World War II]]
*[[Maritime history of California]]
* [[Union Iron Works]]]
* [[Richmond Shipyards]]
*[[Kneass Boat Works]]
*[[Pacific Bridge Company]]

==References==









[[Category:American Theater of World War II]]
[[Category:1940s in California]]
[[Category:American boat builders]]

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