Maritime Directory

A.A. Pyramid Consulting Engine appears to be a defunct consulting firm based in Mumbai, India. Its former website is no longer active and shows no maritime industry content.

Richmond, VA, United States

Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. was a biotechnology company headquartered at 601 Biotech Dr, Richmond, Virginia 23235. The company appears to be defunct, with its website currently suspended.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, United States

Discovery Cruise Line was a Fort Lauderdale-based day-cruise operator that sailed the MV Discovery Sun from Port Everglades to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island from 1987 until ceasing operations in 2010.

New Orleans, LA, United States

Equitable Shipyards Inc. was a New Orleans shipbuilder founded in 1921 as Equitable Equipment Company by Neville Levy, which acquired the former Higgins Industries yard on the Industrial Canal in 1966 and built ferries, workboats, and government vessels until ceasing operations in the 1990s.

Pekin, IL, United States

Garvey Marine, Inc. was a marine harbor services company operating six locations along the Illinois River system (Lemont, Ottawa, Pekin, Channahon, Morris, and Seneca). It was acquired by American River Transportation Company (ARTCO), a subsidiary of ADM, in 2006.

Dublin, Ireland

The Irish National Petroleum Corporation (INPC) is a semi-defunct Irish State-owned company that owned and operated the Whiddy Island Terminal and Whitegate refinery in County Cork, Ireland.

New York, New York, United States

Lehman Brothers was a global financial services and investment banking firm founded in 1850, headquartered in New York City. The firm filed for bankruptcy in September 2008 and is no longer operating.

McLean, VA, United States

Loral Corporation was a U.S. defense electronics contractor founded in 1948, specializing in radar, sonar, and naval electronics systems for the U.S. Navy. It was acquired by Lockheed Martin in 1996 and no longer operates as an independent company.

Norfolk, VA, United States

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., known as Lykes Lines, was a US cargo shipping company founded in 1900 that grew from Gulf Coast cattle shipping to Cuba into a major international breakbulk and container carrier before ceasing operations in 2005.

El Segundo, CA, United States

Magnavox Electric Systems Co. was the El Segundo, California defense and maritime electronics division of Magnavox, best known for Transit SATNAV satellite navigation receivers used by the U.S. Navy and commercial shipping. The business was absorbed via acquisitions by Philips and later Raytheon/Hughes and no longer operates as an independent maritime electronics manufacturer.

Cape Canaveral, FL, United States

Premier Cruise Lines was a Cape Canaveral, Florida-based cruise operator that ran passenger cruises from Port Canaveral with its 'Big Red Boat' fleet until ceasing operations in September 2000.

Houston, TX, United States

Racal Survey (formerly Racal-Decca Survey, Inc.) was a Houston-based division of Racal Electronics providing offshore positioning and hydrographic survey services to the oil and gas industry. Acquired by Thomson-CSF (Thales Group) in 2000, its survey operations were subsequently integrated into Fugro.

Tacoma, WA, United States

Sea-Land Industries was a pioneering American container shipping company that developed standardized stackable metal containers in the 1950s, revolutionizing maritime cargo transport. It began Port of Tacoma operations in May 1985 with the ship Endurance and merged into Maersk SeaLand in 1999.

Erie, PA, United States

Skinner Engine Company was a historic American marine steam engine manufacturer founded in 1868 in Herkimer, New York and based in Erie, Pennsylvania from 1873 until its closure in 2013. The company produced approximately half of all Universal Unaflow steam engines built in the United States.

McLean, VA, United States

Independent consulting engineering practice founded by retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas M. Hopkins, specializing in naval ship and submarine design, construction, and maintenance. The practice ceased operations following Hopkins' death in May 2003.

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Union Oil Company of California (Unocal) was a major American petroleum explorer, producer, refiner, and marketer with tanker, pipeline, and marine bunker fuel operations. The company was acquired by Chevron in 2005 and no longer operates as an independent entity.

San Pedro, CA, United States

Wilmington Transportation Company (1884-1997) was a historic Southern California maritime company incorporated by Phineas Banning that operated coastal steamer service between San Pedro and Santa Catalina Island. It became a subsidiary of the Santa Catalina Island Company and ceased operations in 1997.

Wayne, NJ, United States

Woodward-Clyde Consultants was an engineering and environmental consulting firm providing maritime, oceanographic, coastal, and geotechnical engineering services. Acquired by URS Corporation in 1997 (later AECOM); historical maritime datasets remain archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.