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    The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet colloquially known as the mothball fleet, is located on the northwest side of Suisun Bay (the northern portion of the greater...
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    ships in Suisun Bay. Most are part of the Military Sealift Command Ready Reserve Fleet. The battleship USS Iowa and "Ghost Fleet" in Suisun Bay (Iowa has...
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    Reserve Fleet); Beaumont, Texas (Beaumont Reserve Fleet); and Suisun Bay, California (Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet); and at designated outported berths. Former...
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    Maryland, as a training vessel. A similar fleet, the National Defense Reserve Fleet, is anchored in Suisun Bay near Benicia, California, and has similarly...
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    National Defense Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet United States Navy reserve fleets "Nuclear 'ghost' to leave James River Reserve Fleet". Daily Press...
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    Transportation (DOT). The other Reserve Fleets are the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet inland from San Francisco Bay and the James River Reserve Fleet in Virginia. As of...
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    The other large Reserve Fleets in the 1950s are the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet inland from San Francisco Bay and the Beaumont Reserve Fleet in Texas. As of...
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    USS Arided (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    She was delivered to MARCOM at Suisun Bay, California, on 2 October 1947 for layup in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. She was sold to National Metal and...
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    was decommissioned and placed in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in July 1946 then withdrawn from the reserve fleet after sale to American Ship Dismantlers...
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    Sea Shadow (IX-529) (category Ships built in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    2006, when it was relocated with the Hughes Mining Barge to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Until 2006, Sea Shadow and the HMB-1 were...
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  • in San Francisco, played the part of USS Stingray. The nearby Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet stood in for Naval Station Norfolk. The film makes use of both...
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    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    was decommissioned on 15 December 1979, and remained in the Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay until 9 January 1999, when she was towed to Pearl Harbor, where...
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    SS Arthur M. Huddell (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California on 11 October 1957. After a brief service in 1963, she was again returned to Suisun Bay on 10 July...
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    to the nearby Maritime Administration's Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. After several years of being available...
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    USS Interpreter (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay-up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, where she remained until sold for scrapping...
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  • the Fifth Reserve Fleet, which is docked off the coast of Benicia. Suisun Slough and Cordelia Slough empty into Grizzly Bay. "Grizzly Bay". Geographic...
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    Gulf War, she served for 36 years before being laid up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in California. Her keel was laid on 13 July 1953. Between July...
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    readiness status (ROS-5) at Ready Reserve Fleet Alameda. In 2020 she was reassigned to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. [citation needed] Polmar 2005 p....
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    USS Oglala (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    11 July 1946, Oglala remained with the “mothball fleet,” berthed in the Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, for almost two decades. She was sold to Nicolai Joffe...
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    more than two million dollars, the ship became part of the Navy's Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. In September 1978, Ocean Minerals Company consortium of Mountain...
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    USS Tracer (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    to the US Maritime Commission (MARCOM) and laid up at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, where she remained until sold, 15 July 1974...
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    USS Scanner (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    permanently to the MARAD on 4 February 1966, and remained in the Suisun Bay reserve fleet until 3 October 1974, when she was sold for non-transport use....
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    USS Talladega (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    custody of MARAD. In July 1972, the transport was moved to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet where she remained into October 1982. On 26 May 1982, she was sold...
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    vessel was returned to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. Ex-Monticello was withdrawn from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benicia, California on...
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    Observation Island was decommissioned and placed in reserve from 1972 until 1977 in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet until withdrawn and then returned in 1978. The...
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    transferred to United States Maritime Administration custody in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet that same day. The hulk was struck from the Navy List on 15 July...
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    USS Carina (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    1 February 1952, for scrapping. She was removed from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, 7 April 1952. Her scrapping was completed 20...
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    USS Boulder Victory (category Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
    the Wilmington Group and later transferred to Suisun Bay as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. During 1946 and 1947, Boulder Victory was operated...
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    Service Medal, and the Kuwait Liberation Medal. She was mothballed in Suisun Bay, California at 38° 4'37.86"N, 122° 5'24.66"W from 1997 until 2006 while...
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    submarine tenders. As a result of the settlement of lawsuits over the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, the U.S. Navy and MARAD are engaged in an aggressive disposal...
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