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	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Yorktown (CV 10)
		On the 19th, she arrived at the launch point near Jaluit and Mili and, early that morning, launched the first of a series of raids to suppress enemy air-power during the amphibious assaults on Tarawa, Abemama, and Makin.
		She arrived at the launch point on the 25th and sent two raids aloft to bomb and strafe airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo.
		During 1974, the Navy Department approved the donation of Yorktown to the Patriot's Point Development Authority, Charleston, S.C. She was towed from Bayonne, N.J., to Charleston S.C., in June of 1975.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv10-yorktown/cv10-yorktown.html (6247 words)

	Masta Mind News Updates
		The Navy eventually incurred a $25,000 fine from the EPA for failing to notify anyone that an underground fire was raging for weeks in the toxic Hunters Point landfill.
		In Bayview Hunters Point, 91% of the population are people of color, and unemployment is 250% higher than the rest of the City.
		Hunters Point area citizens rate of hospitalization is 4 times the state average.
	www.mastamind.com /HP.htm (1851 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Treasure Island Naval Station, Hunters Point Annex, San Francisco County, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Scrap Yard and the Triple A areas are paved with the pavement ending about 50 to 100 feet west of the Scrap Yard; the area where scrap material was observed in an aerial photograph is not paved.
		The Old Transformer Storage Yard is between I Street and 6th Street, east of I street and southeast of the intersection of 6th and R streets (Figure B-3).
		The Navy recommended further investigations of the hydraulic and chemical conditions in the Parcel C and D storm drain systems and removing contaminated sediment from seven catch basins (31, 32).
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/treasure/tre_p1.html (9151 words)

	Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - California Asbestos Exposure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNSY), a San Francisco Bay yard, was established in 1868 by the California Drydock Company.
		In the late 1940s the Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) was established at Hunters Point and the yard was detailed for the decontamination of ships formerly involved in nuclear weapons testing.
		Hunters Point experienced expansion and a dramatic increase in work during the Korean conflict, of the early 1950s, taking aboard 11,000 employees.
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_ca_hunters.htm (619 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Shipyards
		Along with five additional locations on the Northeastern coast of the U.S., the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard was established at the turn of the 19th century by mandate from the Secretary of the Navy...
		Situated on the banks of the Anacostia River on land that was set aside by George Washington for federal use, the Washington Navy Yard is the U.S. Navy’s oldest shore establishment.
		The yard is situated on the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River, convenient to all port facilities and terminals in the Port of Hampton Roads.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesShipyards.php (3123 words)

	San Francisco Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The San Francisco Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres (2.6 km²) of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city.
		Originally a commercial shipyard established in 1870, the Navy acquired it in November 1941, later renaming it Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, then Treasure Island Naval Station Hunters Point Annex, and operated the yard until 1974, when it leased most of it to a commercial ship repair company.
		The base was entirely closed in 1994, although it continues to receive attention due to the large amounts of toxic waste remaining to be cleaned up.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Naval_Shipyard (149 words)

	Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
		Closure of Hunters Point has left behind San Francisco's worst toxic waste dump and a legacy of nuclear and chemical pollution that residents fear may have a long-term effect on health in their low-income neighborhoods.
		Hunters Point is on a long promontory in the southeastern portion of San Francisco, extending eastward into San Francisco Bay.
		Hunters Point is bordered by the most depressed area of the city.
	www.militarymuseum.org /HuntersPointNSY.html (1337 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The naval shipyard at Hunters Point, on a long promontory in the southeast of the city, was where ships were built, port calls were made, and up to 8,500 civilian workers supported Navy operations.
		Hunters Point, which occupied 638 acres, was a base only from 1941 until 1974.
		Though it was the shortest-lived Navy base in the Bay area, it was one of the busiest and became controversial.
	www.marinetimes.com /print.php?f=0-292308-1877388.php (844 words)

	Pacific Region, San Francisco - Guide to Archival Holdings (RG 155-196
		Soon after its establishment in 1798, the Department of the Navy created navy yards and other fleet service shore establishments.
		Hunters Point, California, 1907-74, including records of the Commander's Office; Industrial Manager (Assistant); and Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Inspector of Ordnance; and unnumbered microfilm, "The Drydocker", 1944-65.
		For the 12th Naval District and Mare Island Navy Yard: indexes and registers for many correspondence series.
	www.archives.gov /pacific/san-francisco/finding-aids/holdings-guide-06.html (4243 words)

	Hunters Point Neighborhood Seized by U.S. Navy - 1942
		The U.S. Navy’s 1942 seizure — some at the time called it theft — of Treasure Island was very well publicized.
		Immediate expansion of shipyard facilities at Hunters Point on land soon to be acquired by the Navy will force at least 100 civilian families to move, it was revealed by 12th Naval District headquarters today.
		The Navy announcement set no deadline for removal, but police, who were asked to serve notice on residents, told them to be prepared to move on 48-hour notice.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist9/hpseize.html (331 words)

	At Hunters Point Shipyard, Cyclotron Smashed Atoms Where Lennar Wants to Build Homes DENNIS KYNE / San Francisco Bay ...
		Three decades after Hunters Point was vacated by NRDL, the Navy has transferred Parcel A to the city, and San Francisco is giving it away to Lennar to build 1,600 homes.
		Plutonium, with a half life of 24,000 years, and uranium, with a half life of 4.5 billion years, are causing cancer and birth defects in the surrounding Hunters Point community at an alarming rate.
		I have visited Hunters Point, stood as close as possible to the Rocky Flats facility and once slept on the radioactive battlefield of Desert Storm.
	www.mindfully.org /Nucs/2005/Hunters-Point-Cyclotron12jan05.htm (1257 words)

	History of Ships and Navies/CV-10 USS Yorktown
		She arrived at thelaunch point on the 25th and sent two raids aloft to bomb and strife airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo.
		After a brief repair periodat Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Yorktown put to sea to serve as a platformfor the filming of the movie "Jet Carrier." She conducted further,more routine, operations along the west coast until 1 July at which timeahe headedback to the Orient.
		During 1974, the Navy Departmentapproved the donation of Yorktown to the Patriot's Point Development Authority,Charleston, S.C. She was towed from Bayonne, N.J. to Charleston, S.C., inJune of 1976.
	www.multied.com /navy/Yorktown2.html (5575 words)

	[CPEO-MEF] Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup on November Ballot
		Residents of the Hunters Point Bayview District, the neighborhood immediately surrounding the former base, are afflicted with high levels of cancer, respiratory disease, and other illnesses.
		Instead, the Navy plans to leave behind so much contamination it will increase the risk for cancer resulting from exposure to the property requiring the construction of barriers and restrictions on future land uses.
		The Hunters Point Bayview community wants the Hunters Point Shipyard to be cleaned to a level which would enable the unrestricted use of the property the highest standard for cleanup established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
	www.cpeo.org /lists/military/2000/msg00449.html (722 words)

	CVE-16 USS Altahama
		The ship began an availability at the Hunters Point Navy Yard on 3 March during which she was drydocked for routine work below the waterline and repairs to a propeller damaged in the typhoon.
		The carrier emerged from the yard on 14 March and began loading planes, ammunition, and sueplies for transportation to Pearl Harbor.
		Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 March 1959, and the vessel was sold on 25 April 1961 to Eisenberg and Co., New York City, N. and, later that year, was scrapped in Japan.
	www.multied.com /navy/ecarrier/Altahama.html (1546 words)

	In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton
		The meeting, with Admiral William R. Purnell and Captain William S. Parsons, had been disappointingly quick and to the point: this morning he was to take his ship from the Mare Island navy yard, thirty miles north of San Francisco, to Hunters Point navy yard, located just outside the city in San Francisco Bay.
		Soon the sun having risen high and the morning's fog burned off, she was snug to the wharf at Hunters Point, standing motionless against her mammoth eight-inch hawsers sprung from bow and stern.
		Now, after docking at Hunters Point, McCoy stood below-decks in his tiny compartment before a stainless steel mirror -- on warships, broken glass is a hazard -- staring at the face that had become his own during his thirteen-month tour of duty.
	www.ussindianapolisinharmsway.com /excerpt1.htm (3871 words)

	Jack Abraitis - M.L.B.W. Glossary
		The widest part of the hull is near the halfway point between the bow and stern, and the hull in this vicinity is called the middle-body section.
		A point in motion produces a straight line; a straight line in motion in any direction except along itself produces a surface; a plane surface in motion in any direction except along itself produces a solid.
		At this point, the the boat's steadying/mooring lines are shifted from the boat's outboard cleats to the inboard cleats.
	www.princeton.edu /~abraitis/glosdocs/dict.htm (10050 words)

	Treasure Island
		At this point in the log, several discrepancies indicate that some of the ROTC trainees must have taken over the log keeping task since the time which should have been 0821 is shown as 1821.
		The beach at this point had a good sized surf running which made it a little harder for the troops to build the ramp out to the ship, but they persevered, and when the roadway was bulldozed into place, the ship would be completely loaded with troops and all kinds of equipment.
		At the Navy Base in Womens Bay, we tied up to LST 480 at 1150, and repairs were made which consisted of simply welding a large steel plate over the crack in the hull.
	webpages.charter.net /rharper2018/training.htm (6036 words)

	DANFS: USS Altamaha(CVE-18)
		The ship began an availability at the Hunters Point Navy Yard on 3 March during which she was dry-docked for routine work below the waterline and repairs to a propeller damaged in the typhoon.
		The carrier emerged from the yard on 14 March and began loading planes, ammunition, and supplies for transportation to Pearl Harbor.
		Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 March 1959, and the vessel was sold on 25 April 1961 to Eisenberg & Co., New York City, N. Y., and, later that year, was scrapped in Japan.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/CVE/cve18.html (1550 words)

	Sink or Swim: Cinematheque 7/7/01
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a prime piece of real estate slated to be given to San Francisco, is a poisoned dumping ground.
		Subsequent Navy investigations indicate that the aquifers beneath Hunters Point and the those used by the water bottling company do not appear to be connected.
		The name Hunters Point comes from the name of a pioneer family that was living in the area in 1866.
	www.hi-beam.net /sos (2918 words)

	DANFS: USS Alchiba (AK-23/AKA-6)
		She was anchored off Lunga Point at 0616 on 28 November, when two torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-16 exploded on the vessel's port side.
		She took on cargo at the Hunters Point Navy Yard on the 22d and sailed once again for Espiritu Santo.
		She arrived at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., on the 29th and underwent extensive repairs to her main engine.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/AKA/aka6.html (1222 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Implying that “the Bayview Hunters Point community” supports development of the Shipyard before it’s clean is flat wrong.
		The Hunters Point Shipyard is an inte-gral part of the Bayview Hunters Point community, and we will not be torn asunder.
		A few years ago, when negotiations began to turn over control of the Shipyard from the Navy to the City, the stated purpose was to benefit the peo-ple and the economy of Bayview Hunters Point.
	www.sfbayview.com /021605/healthandjobs021605.shtml (1104 words)

	ARS Technologies - Case Studies \| Hunter's Point Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The objective of the project was to evaluate the applicability of the technology to address source contamination at this and other sites across this military facility, which is to be turned over for civilian use within the near future.
		Southwestern Division and NFESC recently demonstrated the use of zero valent iron (ZVI) for removal of chlorinated hydrocarbons at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
		Objectives of the project were to determine technology treatment efficacy, cost effectiveness, injection well radius of influence, and the possibility of plume displacement.
	www.arstechnologies.com /ca003.html (862 words)

	Iron Woman Foundation
		USS Bataan (CVL-29)off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 2 March 1944.
		Looking AFT at the USS Bataan CVL29 at the Hunters Point Navy Yard on September 29 1944.
		A Japanese Navy "Judy" (Yokosuka D4Y3) bomber passes near USS Bataan (CVL-29) during an unsuccessful dive bombing run on Task Force 58, while the U.S. ships were operating off Japan on 20 March 1945.
	www.geocities.com /ww2cvl/batpic.html (567 words)

	Fire at Hunters Point Shipyard
		Navy claims less water is over the toxic area - judge for your self.
		Special questionnaire for those living in the Hunters Point area.
		Tenants Rattled by Cleanup Plan for Hunters Point.
	www.electmarie.freeservers.com /fire.html (1330 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plutonium, a radioactive metal named after the planet Pluto, was discovered in 1940 after uranium was bombarded with neutrons in a cyclotron.
		Samuel Epstein states in his book “The Politics of Cancer,” “There is suggestive evidence that radiation-contaminated water supplies are in part responsible for escalating breast cancer mortality in some areas of the country.
		Decades of radioactive waste, washed into the Bay daily through broken tidal gates and leaking storm drains at the Shipyard, created a watertable that is surely carrying radiation.
	www.sfbayview.com /011205/shipyard011205.shtml (1221 words)

	Sea Stories - Chapter 5
		When we were about 500 yards, he ordered "all Back Full" Those poor guys in the engine room practically pulled up the deck plates to reverse engines from all ahead flank to all back full.
		At the extreme it was reported and rumored that some sailors were actually abandoning their 20 and 40 mm gun emplacements in the face of an impending kamikaze hit and that officers had to force some gun crews to remain at their stations at gunpoint.
		During our stay at Hunter's Point Naval Yard to effect the repairs from our kamikaze hit, we were given explicit orders by the Exec, Lt. Hines, that no one was to cross over to the wharf unless they were going ashore or on some specific assigned errand.
	www.dd-692.com /sea_stories_-_chapter_5.htm (8597 words)

	Photo # 19-N-46405 picture data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
		At the Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, California, 23 April 1943, following overhaul.
		White outlines mark recent alterations, among them the relocation of Sturgeon's 3"/50 deck gun, installation of watertight ready service ammunition lockers in her sail, and fitting of 20mm machine guns.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/images/n40000/n46405c.htm (145 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Aspro of the Balao class
		She was now sent to the Hunters Point Navy Yard for a major overhaul.
		W.A. Stevenson) arrives at the Hunters Point Navy Yard to begin her overhaul.
		J.H. Ashley, Jr.) departs the Hunters Point Navy Yard bound for Pearl Harbour.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3055.html (563 words)

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