Cryer & Sons

37°46′44″N 122°14′35″W / 37.778897°N 122.24310°W / 37.778897; -122.24310

Thomas Crowley tugboat in 1923 built by William Cryer

Cryer & Sons or Cryer Boatworks was a wooden shipbuilding company in Oakland, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Cryer & Sons Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Navy APC coastal transports. Cryer & Sons was started in 1907 by William Cryer, a migrant from England, in San Francisco. William Cryer first boatyard was started 1890s. Cryer & Sons boatyard first boat opened in 1907 was located at 11th Avenue, Oakland. In 1912 he move the boatyard to 1890 Dennison Street Street, Oakland at the corner of Embarcadero. The boatyard was owned and run by William Cryer's son William James Cryer, and later by his grandsons William J, Cryer III and Robert R. Cryer. Cryer & Sons built and repaired wooden powerboats and began working on steel-hulled boats in the 1960s. Many of the boats built used engines from Atlas Gas Engine Company or Standard Gas Engine Company. There is a historical marker at 2301 Embarcadero, Oakland in Union Point Park, just south of the Coast Guard Island bridge near the waterfront remains. The current site has been vacant since 1989. The main building was heavily damaged in a fire on the morning of November 13, 2020. The Cryer & Sons is and has been a site of contamination, some of the contaminated soil has been removed. Some of the land reclaimed has been used for the northern park of Union Point Park. This work has been done with the owners of the land, Measure DD, the city and the Port of Oakland. The City of Oakland had hoped to update the main Cryer & Sons building to use as a community center, but fire damage has ended that hope.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Notable ships:

Small, coastal transports for the US Navy.
40 launches and Cannery tenders for the Alaska Packers' Association.
The Black Swan a 130-foot yacht for Oakland automaker William C. Durant of Durant Motors.
Concrete hulled 63-foot sailboat for Mayor John H. Reading in 1974.^[6]
Thomas Crowley's Crowley Maritime tugboats^[7]
Police patrol boat, like the 1908 San Francisco 50x10 Police patrol launch boat.^[8]

Small coastal transport

Cryer & Sons 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.^[9]^[10]

Ship ID.	Original Name or #	Original Owner	Ship Type	Tons	Feet	Delivery	Notes
255456	AMc 176 / APc 41	US Navy	Coastal Transport	100	147	10 Feb 1943	Sold in 1947 renamed Frances Ann^[11]
255445	AMc 177 / APc 42	US Navy	Coastal Transport	100	147	10 March 1943	Sold in 1947 renamed Donna M^[12]
	AMc 178 / APc 43	US Navy	Coastal Transport	100	147	20 April 1943	To MARAD in 1947^[13]
	AMc 179 / APc 44	US Navy	Coastal Transport	100	147	18 May 1943	To MARAD in 1947^[14]

References

^ Cryer & Sonsshipbuildinghistory.com
^ Henry, Tim (2020-11-30). "Cryer & Sons Boatyard Building Burns Down in Mysterious Blaze". Latitude38.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
^ "Cryer & Sons Historical Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
^ Historic Cryer Boatworks building destroyed November 13, 2020How to prevent destruction of Oakland’s unoccupied historic buildings?
^ Cryer Boatworks localwiki.org
^ SF Gate, John H. Reading, Former mayor of Oakland, his firm made Red's Tamales, by Janine DeFao, Feb. 13, 2003
^ Crowley company history
^ San Francisco Call, Volume 103, Number 179, 27 May 1908
^ navsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1
^ navsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1
^ Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-41 navsource
^ Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-42 navsource
^ Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-43 navsource
^ Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-44 navsource

[1] Cryer & Sonsshipbuildinghistory.com

[2] Henry, Tim (2020-11-30). "Cryer & Sons Boatyard Building Burns Down in Mysterious Blaze". Latitude38.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

[3] "Cryer & Sons Historical Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

[4] Historic Cryer Boatworks building destroyed November 13, 2020How to prevent destruction of Oakland’s unoccupied historic buildings?

[5] Cryer Boatworks localwiki.org

[6] SF Gate, John H. Reading, Former mayor of Oakland, his firm made Red's Tamales, by Janine DeFao, Feb. 13, 2003

[7] Crowley company history

[8] San Francisco Call, Volume 103, Number 179, 27 May 1908

[9] vsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1

[10] vsource.org Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-1

[11] Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-41 navsource

[12] Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-42 navsource

[13] Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-43 navsource

[14] Small Coastal Transport, USS APc-44 navsource

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v t e World War II Maritime Commission ship designs
Cargo designs	Type C1 Type C2 Type C3 Type C4 Type C5 (Type C6) (Type C7) (Type C8) (Type C9) Type N3
Emergency cargo	Liberty ship ("EC2-S-C1") Victory ship ("VC2-S-AP1")
Tanker	T1 tanker T2 tanker T3 tanker Liberty ship ("Z-ET1-S-C3")
Special-purpose	Type S2 ("Tacoma-class frigate") Type S3-S2-BP ("Landing Ship, Tank") Type S3-S2-BP1 ("Neptune-class cable layer") Type S4-S2-BB3 ("Casablanca-class escort carrier") Type S4-SE2-BD1 ("Gilliam-class attack transport") Type S4-SE2-BE1 ("Artemis-class attack cargo ship") "Crane vessel-Derrick Barge"
Miscellaneous-cargo	Type L6 ("Lakers") Type N ("Coastal Cargo") Type P1 ("Passenger") Type P2 ("Passenger") Type R ("Refrigerated") Type B ("Barge")
Tugs	Type V ("Tugs")
See also:- Empire ship, Fort ship, Park ship, Ocean ship.

v t e United States naval ship classes of World War II
Aircraft carriers	Lexington Ranger^S Yorktown Wasp^S Essex Midway^C
Light aircraft carriers	Independence Saipan^C
Escort carriers	Long Island Charger Bogue Sangamon Casablanca Commencement Bay
Battleships	Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee Colorado North Carolina South Dakota Iowa Montana^X
Large cruisers	Alaska
Heavy cruisers	Pensacola Northampton Portland New Orleans Wichita^S Baltimore Oregon City^C Des Moines^C
Light cruisers	Omaha Brooklyn Atlanta Cleveland Fargo^C Juneau^C Worcester^C CL-154^X
Gunboats	Dubuque Sacramento^S Asheville Plymouth^S Williamsburg^S St. Augustine^S Vixen^S Erie PGM-1 PGM-9
Destroyers	Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson Farragut Porter Mahan Gridley Bagley Somers Benham Sims Benson Stevenson^X Gleaves Fletcher Allen M. Sumner Robert H. Smith Gearing
Destroyer escorts	Evarts Buckley Cannon Edsall Rudderow John C. Butler
Patrol frigates	Asheville Tacoma
Patrol boats	Action PT boat
Minelayers	Oglala^S Wassuc^S Monadnock^S Miantonomah^S Terror^S Keokuk^S Salem^S Weehawken^S Camanche Chimo
Minesweepers	Lapwing Raven Auk Eagle^S Hawk Admirable
Submarines	O R S Barracuda Argonaut^S Narwhal Dolphin^S Cachalot Porpoise Salmon Sargo Tambor Mackerel Gato Balao Tench
Tankers	T1 tanker T2 tanker T3 tanker
Cargo ships	Liberty Victory Haskell Andromeda Arcturus Artemis Tolland Alstede Aldebaran Adria Acubens Arctic Denebola Hyades Mizar
Auxiliary ships	Ammunition Floating drydock Repair dock Barracks Collier Combat stores Destroyer tender Depot High-speed transport Hospital Ice cream barge Net laying Motor torpedo boat tender Reefer Oiler Repair Seaplane tender Submarine tender Underway replenishment
C Completed after the war S Single ship of class X Cancelled

Small coastal transport

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