Dravo Corporation

Dravo Corporation was a shipbuilding company with shipyards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. It was founded by Frank and Ralph Dravo in Pittsburgh in 1891.^[1] The corporation went public in 1936 and in 1998 was bought out by Carmeuse for $192 million ($278.7 million today).^[2] On March 5, 1942 it became the first corporation to receive the Army-Navy "E" Award for outstanding war time production.^[3] Dravo ranked 72nd among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.^[4]

Facilities

• Neville Island shipyard, Pittsburgh - Started 1919, Constructed LST's during World War II employing 16,000, closed 1982.(40°30′36″N 80°07′01″W / 40.510°N 80.117°W)
• Wilmington Shipyard, Delaware, Employed 10,500 during World War II, constructing Destroyer escorts. Now closed. (39°43′48″N 75°33′40″W / 39.730°N 75.561°W)

External links

• Heinz History Center Library and Archives
• Dravo - Wilmington
  • Bethlehem - Wilmington (Prior activity before Dravo.
• Dravo - Pittsburgh
• Final Remedial action for cleanup at Wilmington
• Historical Marker

References

1. http://www.clpgh.org/research/pittsburgh/history/ww2/wwm.html
2. http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=19980915fac
3. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=hswpead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-QQS-MSS288
4. Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis (1962) Harvard Business School p.619