United Engineering Co.

37°47′27″N 122°17′27″W / 37.79085°N 122.29075°W / 37.79085; -122.29075

United Engineering Co. (incorporated 10 October 1917, about six months after the sale of the predecessor company United Engineering Works to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation where it became their Alameda Works), in Alameda, California, was a shipbuilding and repair yard active during World War II. Located along the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, The yard was established in 1941, before that time, United Engineering owned facilities acquired from the Risdon Iron Works at Steuart and Folsom streets (37°47′27″N 122°23′25″W / 37.79086°N 122.39025°W / 37.79086; -122.39025) and from T. J. Moynihan & Company the corner of Folsom and Fremont (37°47′17″N 122°23′37″W / 37.788087°N 122.39365°W / 37.788087; -122.39365), just north-west of where the Oakland bay Bridge would later connect.

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