Anderson & Cristofani

37°43′58″N 122°22′30″W / 37.73266°N 122.374928°W / 37.73266; -122.374928

US Navy APc-1 Class Small Coastal Transport
Navy Barge YFN-278 being repaired at Anderson & Cristofani shipyard in 1975
USS Reliable (AMc-100) built at Anderson & Cristofani

Anderson & Cristofani was a wooden shipbuilding company in San Francisco, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Anderson & Cristofani shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Navy APC coastal transports, tugboats, Patrol Boats and Minesweepers.

History

Founded by Walter Anderson and Alfred Christofani. Anderson & Cristofani was started the early 1870s building San Francisco Bay scow schooners, which they built till the mid-1930s. Anderson & Cristofani built pleasure craft and workboats. The boatyard was at 900 Innes Avenue, in the India Basin at Hunter's Point. Henry P. Anderson, a shipwright from Denmark first worked at John Dirks’ boatyard when he arrived in 1893. Anderson joined Alf Cristofani in 1926 to form the Anderson & Cristofani Boatyard. The Anderson & Cristofani boatyard closed in 1988 and was taken over by Allemand Brothers boat repair, run by Rene Flip Allemand and John Allemand, started in 1946. Allemand Brothers boatyard closed in 2002. The land sold to property developers, but no project was built. The city of San Francisco purchased the land in 1989 (renting to the Allemand Brothers). In 2014 the city started the planning for the India Basin Shoreline Park at the site. The boatyard was at 900 Innes Ave, San Francisco.[1][2]

Small coastal transport

Anderson & Cristofani built troopships of the APc-1-class small coastal transports design. The ship had a displacement of 100 tons light, 258 tons fully loaded with a length of 103 feet (31 m), a beam of 21 feet (6.4 m), a draft of 9 feet (2.7 m), and a top speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). The crew was composed of 3 officers and 22 enlisted men and could transport up to 66 troops. The vessels had a large boom with a capacity of 3 tons. They were armed with four single 20 mm AA guns. the APc-1 class had a fuel capacity of 145 barrels (6,100 US gal) of diesel fuel. They were powered by one Atlas engine 6HM2124 diesel engine with a single propeller creating 400 shp (300 kW). For electrical they had two diesel 30 kW 120V D.C. service generators. The ship moved troops in the Pacific War. A notable ship was USS APc-25.[3][4]

Accentor-class minesweeper

Anderson & Cristofani built Accentor-class minesweepers, which had a similar design as the APc-1-class small coastal transports, but were fitted for removing mines:

Large harbor tug

USS Menoquet (YTB-256) Tugboat in the South Pacific in 1944

Anderson & Cristofani built US Navy Large harbor tugboats, a Cahto-class district harbor tug these were 410 long tons and a length of 110 ft. Harbor tugs (YT) were named after American Indian tribes:

Patrol Vessels

  • USS YP-153 built in 1936 [7]
  • C-60162 US Navy Patrol Boat 41 tons and 65-feet built in 1944
Anderson & Cristofani office

See also

References

  1. ^ "Anderson & Cristofani". www.shipbuildinghistory.com.
  2. ^ India Basin Shoreline Park sfrecpark.org
  3. ^ navsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1
  4. ^ navsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1
  5. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  6. ^ Online: Service Ship Photo Archive Arivaca (YTB-259)
  7. ^ YP-153navsource.
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