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English: Forward plan view of Brownsville at Mare Island on 15 June 1944. In the background are the stern of the French Armed Merchant Cruiser Cap Des Palmes and USS Aries (AK 51) U.S. Navy photo 3564-44
Mare Island Naval Shipyard [1] Laid down: 2 August 1927 [1] Launched: 15 March 1930 [1] Commissioned: 1 July 1930 [1] Decommissioned: 30 June 1945 [1] Stricken: 25 July 1945 [1] Fate: Sold for scrap, 16 November 1945 [1] General characteristics; Class and type: V-5 (Narwhal)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine [2 ...
In the upper Florida Keys Palm Beach Island: 8.12 square miles (21.0 km 2) Palm Beach Barrier island Palm Island: Miami-Dade Artificial island in Biscayne Bay Palm Key: Monroe In Florida Bay: Paradise Island: Osceola In Lake Tohopekaliga Park Key: 70 acres (28 ha) Monroe In the lower Florida Keys Peanut Island: 0.32 square kilometres (0.12 sq ...
She spent five weeks of trials in the Puget Sound area, and then three weeks at Mare Island for checkout of the SUBROC missile system. Off the California coast in spring 1962, about 30 mi (50 km) west of the Golden Gate, she collided with the hull of the Matson freighter Hawaiian Citizen on 9 May, damaging both vessels, which caused a change of command.
She was launched on 2 July 1957, sponsored by Mrs. John A. Moore, widow of the last commanding officer of the previous USS Grayback (SS-208), and commissioned at Mare Island on 7 March 1958. Grayback was initially designated as an attack submarine , but was converted in 1958 into a guided-missile submarine (SSG-574) armed with the Regulus ...
Completed in March 1945, the advance base section dock began duty at Mare Island, she served there until placed on the inactive list in March 1946. In August 1946 she was reclassified to auxiliary floating drydock AFDB-7. Disassembled and towed to the east coast, she entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida in January 1947.
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Mare Island is a peninsula, as no full body of water separates this or several other named "islands" from the mainland. Instead, a series of small sloughs cause seasonal water-flows among the so-called islands. Mare Island is the largest of these at about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long and a mile wide.