Camden Ship Repair Company collection, undated.

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Camden Ship Repair Company collection, undated.

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Chiefly materials on the Camden Ship Repair Company; together with records relating to the John H. Mathis Co. (and its successors), RTC Shipbuilding Co., and the ships built or repaired by these companies.

4 boxes.

Camden County Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8066037

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John H. Mathis Co. (Camden, N.J.)

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Founded in 1870 by John H. Mathis and W.W. Reynolds, by the time of its 1913 incorporation, the John H. Mathis Company was an already established and well-represented shipbuilding firm in the maritime world. Located at Point and Erie Streets in Camden, New Jersey, the Mathis Company built and repaired yachts, river steamers, tugs, barges, car floats, ships and other varieties of floating vessels for private individuals and businesses as well as the Navy and Coast Guard. During World...

Humes, L. S.

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Camden Ship Repair Company (Camden, N.J.)

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RTC Shipbuilding Co. (Camden, N.J.)

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In 1940, Leroy M. Robinson (President), George R. Taylor (Vice-president), and John P. Carson (Secretary and Treasurer) formed RTC Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey. Their initials are the basis for the name of the company. All three men were former executives at J. H. Mathis Company. Subsequent to the death of Robinson and the retirement of Taylor in 1946, Carson became the firm's president and assumed sole ownership. Prior to World War II, the yard produced tw...