"Cornelia Wrner" <fenenga@mminternet.com>: > I'm interested in knowing something about Craig shipyards > of So. CA-San Pedro area, perhaps? researching Arthur > Hudson who was the head marine architect there for 40 > years, ....... The shipyard was in Long Beach, not San Pedro. Your other question, about how a marine architect got trained, I'm afraid I don't know. A blurb I found at the library follows. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com Craig Shipbuilding Co. of California (Long Beach): "Civic yearnings to come of age industrially, or at least be legitimately born, were satisfied in 1907. That year John F. Craig moved Craig Shipbuilding Company from Toledo, Ohio, where his father [John Franklyn Craig] had spent eighteen years constructing steel-hulled vessels, to 43 acres of the nascent Long Beach inner harbor, presently between Channel 3 and Water Street. ... "Craig, who brought his 26 foremen and their families west by train, wasted no time pleasing his new neighbors. With machine shops and foundry quickly in place, he turned out an $85,000 dredger for Western Marine Company. ... Fittingly, the dredger immediately went to work deepening the harbor channels and helping to create six miles of water frontage. ... "Craig Shipbuilding constructed another dredger in 1909 and then showed doubters what could be done in 1910 by launching the 256-feet long, 42-feet wide 'General Hubbard,' the first steamship built on the Southern California coast. A year later, Craig constructed the first floating dry dock south of San Francisco in his shipyard, an event quickly followed by the formation of the Long Beach Steamship Company, with a directorate that included George H. Bixby, Llewellyn Bixby, P.E. Hatch and the formidable John F. Craig himself. ... [large omission] ... "... On June 1, 1910, workers at Craig Shipyards walked out, demanding an average increase of fifteen cents an hour and a reduction of the work day from ten to eight hours. John F. Craig refused to meet with the strikers and announced his intent to keep the shipyard an 'open shop.' "Long Beach's 'progressive conservatives,' as its city fathers liked to characterize themselves ... voted nineteen to three on a resolution that placed itself 'squarely on the record as unalterably in favor of the principles of the open shop.' "This expression of civic will was given teeth eight days later when the city council, at Craig's instigation, passed an anti-picketing ordinance and some 30 strikers were jailed. ..." Source: "Long Beach: Fortunes Harbor," Larry L. Meyer and Patricia L. Kalayjian, Continental Heritage Press, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1983, pp. 68-72. A short biography of John F. Craig's father, John Franklyn Craig, is in "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," James T. White & Company, 1936, reprinted by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967, vol. 25, p. 319. The Craig Shipbuilding Co., the eastern version, is mentioned. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.