Vigor Shipyards is the current entity operating the former Todd Shipyards after its acquisition in 2011. Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916, which owned and operated shipyards on the

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and the

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. Todd Shipyards were a major part of the

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for

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Vigor Shipyards

In February 2011,

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purchased Todd for US$130 million. This included the Seattle, Everett and Bremerton operations. Today, Vigor Shipyards is a government repair subsidiary of Vigor Industrial. Originally, the Coast Guard wanted to acquire 25

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s (OPC) and spend about $8 billion for them. In April 2013, it was reported that Vigor proposed an Ulstein X-bow hull in the design competition for the OPC vessels. If successful in landing the contract, Vigor would have assembled the vessels at its Portland, Ore., shipyard. However, in February 2014, the USCG announced that

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, and

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had been awarded design contracts for the OPC. In September 2017, Vigor was contracted to produce the US Army's

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were bought in 1916 by a syndicate headed by Bertron Griscom & Company of New York and placed under management of William H. Todd president of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Erie Basin,

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. That acquisition was followed by acquisition of the Tebo Yacht Basin, Brooklyn, and the

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. The Seattle

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traces its history back to 1882, when

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opened a marine repair shop at Yesler's Wharf. This shop became the Moran Brothers Shipyard in 1906 and the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Company at the end of 1911. The shipyard has performed building and maintenance work for, among others, the

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and Royal Australian Navies, the

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, and the

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. Its headquarters and operations are on

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at the mouth of

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Duwamish Waterway