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Twelfth Naval District was established on 7 May 1903 with headquarters at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, in accordance with General Order No. 128, signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles H. Darling. During World War II, 12th District headquarters moved to San Francisco, California with geographic boundaries including ...
Admiral Carleton H. Wright, Commander, 12th Naval District, spoke of the unfortunate deaths and the need to keep the base operating during a time of war. He gave Navy and Marine Corps Medals for bravery to four officers and men who had successfully fought a fire in a rail car parked within a revetment near the pier. [ 45 ]
Purchased by the U.S. Navy on 19 November 1940 for eventual conversion to a coastal minesweeper, she was commissioned as USS AMc-15 on 26 November 1940, and was named Waxbill the following day. Not yet fully equipped or manned, Waxbill operated in the 12th Naval District 's waters, training naval reservists through to the end of 1940.
During World War II, Yerba Buena Island fell under the jurisdiction of Treasure Island Naval Station, the main headquarters of the 12th Naval District inside Building One. Built on the shoals of Yerba Buena Island, the 403-acre (163-hectare) Treasure Island was a Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s.
The American motor yacht Haida was built in Germany in 1929 for Max C. Fleischmann and later saw service in the United States Navy during World War II as patrol yacht USS Argus (PY-14) and USC&GS Pioneer. In 1946 she returned to her role as a private yacht under a sequence of names and owners, and after a further refit in 2016 is now Haida 1929.
On 5 May 1950 she was placed in commission, in reserve to serve as the flagship for six patrol vessels of the 9th Naval District engaged in the training of naval reservists on the Great Lakes. [2] [3] Daniel A. Joy was decommissioned on 1 May 1965 and sold for scrap to the North American Smelting Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware on 1 March ...
USS Chinquapin (YN-12/AN-17) was an Aloe-class net laying ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Originally ordered as USS Fir (YN-2), she was renamed and renumbered to Chinquapin (YN-12) in October 1940 before construction began. She was launched in July 1941, and completed in October 1941.
After a brief period of operation by the USSB, Edisto was transferred to the Navy by executive order on 29 October 1921 and renamed USS Altair (AD-11) on 2 November 1921. Classified as a destroyer tender, she was delivered to the Navy on 5 December 1921 and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, the following day, 6 ...