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The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY or MINS) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean [4] and was in service 142 years from 1854 to 1996. [5] It is located on Mare Island, 23 miles (37 km) northeast of San Francisco, in Vallejo, California.
ABSD-6 is an advanced base sectional dock which was constructed of nine advance base docks (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II. ABSD-6 was built by Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California. ABSD-6 was commissioned on 28 September 1944.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard – Mare Island built more than 400 vessels. Mare Island Naval Shipyard set a shipbuilding record for a destroyer that was never broken completing the USS Ward in just 17 1 ⁄ 2 days. Marinship – The 75,000 Americans who poured into Marinship during the war years build 93 ships.
Scamp′s keel was laid down on 23 January 1959 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California.She was launched on 8 October 1960, sponsored by Mrs. John C. Hollingsworth, widow of Commander John C. Hollingsworth, the commanding officer of USS Scamp (SS-277) at the time of her loss in November 1944 during World War II.
Her keel was laid on 10 May 1927 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. She was launched on 15 March 1930 sponsored by Miss Joan Keesling, and commissioned on 1 July 1930. It was the first of many submarines built at Mare Island CA.
USS Fulton (AS-11) was the leader of her class of seven submarine tenders, [5] launched on 27 December 1940 by Mare Island Navy Yard and sponsored by Mrs. A. T. Sutcliffe, great-granddaughter of Robert Fulton.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California [1] Laid down: 27 October 1937 [1] ... She was the first American submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard: Laid down: 15 September 1920: Launched: 29 October 1921: Commissioned: 9 August 1922: Decommissioned: 28 July 1945: Stricken: 13 August 1945: Fate: Sold for scrap, 30 November 1945: General characteristics; Class and type: Clemson-class destroyer: Displacement: 1,215 tons: Length: 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) Beam: 31 ft 9 ...