General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, the Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, the Newburgh Shipbuilding and Repair Company of New York, the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Bids (for either C1-A or C1-B in either steam of diesel variants) were opened on 11 July 1939. Pusey and Jones successfully bid on 2 C1-A ships. Contracts were awarded in September 1939. Two of these early-built ships joined the ship launching parade of the Liberty Fleet Day on 27 September 1941. Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, NJ: 5 (MC-67) ... (MC-71) Consolidated Steel, Long Beach, CA: 4 (MC-75) ... (MC-78) Bethlehem Sparrows Point, MD: 5 (MC-79) ... (MC-83) Bethlehem San Francisco, CA: 5 (details) Bethlehem Staten Island, NY: 5 (MC-89) ... (MC-93) Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, CA: 5 (diesel) (MC-94) ... (MC-98) Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, WA: 5 diesel (details) after the Emergency Shipbuilding Program picked up momentum, Consolidated Steel remained the only manufacturer of the C1-B type. Consolidated Steel, Long Beach, CA: 14 (in addition to the original 4) Consolidated Steel, Wilmington, CA: 47 Converted to Troop Ships (all steam turbine driven) (MC-83) at Bethlehem Brooklyn 27th Street, New York (MC-76) at Bethlehem Brooklyn 27th Street, New York (MC-84) at Bethlehem Hoboken, New York (MC-91) at Bethlehem Hoboken, New York (MC-265) at Todd Hoboken, New York (MC-71) at Zalud Marine Corporation (MC-78) at Zalud Marine Corporation (MC-87) at Arthur Blair (MC-92) at Arthur Blair (MC-503) at General Engineering & Drydock Company, Alameda (MC-505) at Matson Navigation, San Francisco (MC-502) at Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland (MC-510) at United Engineering Co., Alameda (MC-504) at Todd Seattle (MC-509) in San Francisco (MC-1025) at Matson Navigation, San Francisco (MC-263) completed as troopship by the Consolidated Steel Corporation (MC-264) 7 Modified and redesignated (to United States Navy) (all steam turbine driven) SS Fred Morris (MC-70) as submarine tender and then as internal combustion engone repair ship Navy troop transports SS Cape Johnson (MC-507) as at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro SS Fred Morris (MC-490) as at Todd Hoboken Cargo ships SS Alcoa Partner (MC-493) to US Navy as Hospital ships SS Comfort (MC-1021) as at Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro SS Hope (MC-1015) as at the U.S. Naval Dry Dock on Terminal Island SS Mercy (MC-1022) as at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company these ships were originally ordered as uncompleted hospital