William Todd opened a shipyard on the Seattle, WA, waterfront in 1916; from Brooklyn, NY, he also owned two early-twentieth-century yards in New York. Todd Shipyards experienced robust growth throughout the century, employing about 57,000 workers during World War II. The company went bankrupt in the 1980s, and Todd retained only the Seattle shipyard at that time. In 2010, it still employed 1,000 at facilities on Harbor Island (Seattle) and in Everett, WA, and Bremerton, WA. Vigor Industrial, a privately-held, Portland-based, holding company, with shipyard facilities in WA and CA, offered $130 million for Todd in 12/2010.

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