of Busch. These pioneering submarines were built for the Holland Torpedo Boat Company named after this company's founder John Philip Holland. Work on these submarines began at this shipyard in the late fall of 1896 with the keel to the Holland VI being laid down by early December of that year. Holland's company evolved into the Electric Boat Company after this company was officially incorporated on 7 February 1899. Japan's first five submarines were developed under Busch's direction while working at Fore River Ship and Engine Company in Quincy, Massachutsetts for Electric Boat and Admiral Francis T. Bowles, President of the shipyard in 1904. Electric Boat had subcontracted with the Fore River Shipbuilding yard for some twenty years (since this time) before moving to their present location in Groton, CT. Bethlehem Elizabethport Bethlehem Elizabethport built United States Shipping Board cargo Ships, tugboats, reefer ships, tanker ships starting in 1918 for World War I. The ships were part of the Emergency Fleet Corporation program. The site of the shipyard at Front and Marshall Streets is now Veterans Memorial Waterfront Park. John W. Sullivan Company John W. Sullivan Company from 1914 to 1926 built: cargo ships. tungboats, minesweepers, Ferry ships, tankers, fireboats and salvage ship. New Jersey Dry Dock & Transportation Company The New Jersey Dry Dock & Transportation Company from 1914 to 1916 built: tugs, a cutter, Fire Boat and a barge. Samuel L Moore & Company Samuel L Moore & Company built from 1890 to 1893 tug, gunboat, ferry, lighthouse tender and yacht. See also Calmar Steamship Company and other subsidiaries of the Bethlehem Steel References External links 1895 establishments in New Jersey Economy of Elizabeth, New Jersey Companies based in Union County, New Jersey Bethlehem shipyards Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States Shipyards of New Jersey