Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders was a shipbuilding company in

Stockton, California Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquir ...

on the

Stockton Channel Stockton Channel (or Stockton Waterfront) is a waterway in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. It runs 2.5 miles from the San Joaquin River- Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel at the Port of Stockton to McLeod Lake in ...

. To support the World War II demand for ships Hickinbotham Brothers built: Type V ship Tugboats, Tank Landing Barge, balloon barges and Coastal Freighter (design 381, 381 tons). Hickinbotham Brothers also called Hickinbotham Brothers Construction Division was opened in 1852 and is still a working shipyard. Hickinbotham Brothers started by building: horse

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s, horse wagons, threshers and

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. In 1942 Ronald Guntert and L. R. Zimmerman ran the company as a partnership on the Banner Island waterfront. After World War II, Guntert and Zimmerman purchased Hickinbotham out and renamed the company Guntert & Zimmerman Construction. In 1984 the company moved to

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on the

Stanislaus River The Stanislaus River is a tributary of the San Joaquin River in north-central California in the United States. The main stem of the river is long, and measured to its furthest headwaters it is about long. Originating as three forks in the high ...

, as the business continues. The Banner Island waterfront yard was on the deepwater port on the

Stockton Ship Channel The San Joaquin River (; es, Río San Joaquín) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisu ...

of the Pacific Ocean and an inland port located more than seventy nautical miles from the ocean, on the

and San Joaquin River-

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(before it joins the Sacramento River to empty into

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. Notable ship:

USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177) USNS ''Shearwater'' (T-AG-177) was a ''Shearwater''-class miscellaneous auxiliary built during the final months of World War II for the US Army as ''FS-411'' ( Design 381 coastal freighter) by Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders. ''FS-411'' was ...

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