Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Lockheed Shipbuilding), was a shipyard in Seattle, Washington with Yard 1 on Harbor Island and Yard 2 at what is now Jack Block Park at Seattle Terminal 5, both at the mouth of the West Waterway of Duwamish River.In the 1960s the shipyard built several of the initial ferries after the formation of the Alaska Marine Highway.Lockheed constructed several Knox-class frigates for the United States Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Beginning in the mid-1960s and extending into 1971, Lockheed built and delivered seven landing platform dockships (LPDs) of the Cleveland and Trenton classes for the US Navy.In 1978, Lockheed won the contract to construct USS Whidbey Island, an amphibious support transport ship.