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	Mare Island Golf Club
		Established in 1892, Mare Island Golf Club is the oldest course west of the Mississippi.
		As for the horse, he belonged to Mare Island Marine Lieutenant Jack Meyers and was forever ambling up to the Golf Course where golfers invariably found him standing between their ball and the pin.
		It was one of two buildings on Mare Island Naval Shipyard to receive the first call of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
	www.mareislandgolfclub.com /history.html (466 words)

	Mare Island
		Mare Island is located on the western edge of the City of Vallejo in southwestern Solano County in Northern California.
		Mare Island's first ship, the paddle-wheeled gunboat Saginaw, was launched before the Civil War, in 1859, and its last ship, the nuclear submarine US S. Drum, was launched in 1970 when the country was divided over the Vietnam war.
		Mare Island held the record for speed in construction of naval vessels, having earned the distinction in 1917, when the destroyer USS Ward was only seventeen days from keel-laying to launching.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/mare_island.htm (874 words)

	About
		Mare Island’s only battleship, the USS California became an integral part of Vallejo’s history on the very day she was launched in 1919.
		Mare Island entered the atomic age in 1954 by building the first nuclear submarine on the west coat, the USS Sargo.
		It is the oldest Naval Chapel in the Pacific.
	www.visitvallejo.com /marehist.htm (1183 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Record of Decision for the Disposal and Reuse of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA
		Mare Island Naval Shipyard closed on April 1, 1996, and Navy is currently maintaining the property in an inactive caretaker status.
		Mare Island Naval Shipyard is located on the western edge of the City of Vallejo in Solano County, California, about 30 miles northeast of the City of San Francisco.
		The 5,252-acre property consists of four parcels: Mare Island comprising 5,197 acres; main entrance complex and railroad spur comprising 26 acres in the City of Vallejo; a housing complex comprising 29 acres in Vallejo; and a bulkhead in Vallejo.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/1998/November/Day-05/g29560.htm (9792 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: Ships of Mare Island
		She departed Mare Island on May 1999, en route to the MARAD reserve fleet at Beaumont, Texas.
		When the scrapper defaulted she was moved to Mare Island, and shortly after this 3 September 1998 photo she went to the Suisun Bay reserve fleet, where she remains.
		After a number of years in various reserve and target fleets, she was moored at Mare Island briefly before being towed to the Pacific and sunk as a target, 25 March 1999.
	www.hazegray.org /features/mareisland (1951 words)

	Mare Island Naval Shipyard: World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		Closed in 1996, Mare Island was conveyed to the City of Vallejo in 2002 for reuse and redevelopment.
		The Mare Island Naval Shipyard, a National Historic Landmark, is roughly bounded by Mare Island Strait, Causeway St., Cedar Ave., Mesa, Ribeiro and Tyler rds.
		Visitors may also be interested in the nearby Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum at 734 Marin St. in downtown Vallejo, or viewing the shipyard from sea on the Baylink Ferry (www.baylinkferry.com).
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/mar.htm (555 words)

	Mare Island
		Mare Island is located on the western edge of the City of Vallejo in southwestern Solano County in Northern California.
		The shipyard was established by the Navy in 1854 and was known as Naval Magazine, NSY Mare Island.
		Mare Island held the record for speed in construction of naval vessels, having earned the distinction in 1917, when the destroyer USS Ward was only seventeen days from keel-laying to launching.
	www.fas.org /man/company/shipyard/mare_island.htm (751 words)

	Vallejo Architectural Heritage Foundation
		Mare Island, established in 1852, is the oldest naval installation on the west coast.
		In 1996, Mare Island Naval Shipyard was closed and the island with its unparalleled collection of historic resources was transferred to the City of Vallejo and a private developer, which are in the process of finetuning a reuse plan.
		Mare Island continues to be reported to Congress as a Priority Threatened National Historic Landmark because significant demolition and new construction are planned.
	www.historicvallejo.org /historicVallejo/mareIslandShipyard.shtml (976 words)

	MARE ISLAND COMMUNITY INFORMATION
		The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINS) was the first United States naval station established on the Pacific Coast.
		The Napa River (Mare Island Strait) separates the peninsula shipyard from the City of Vallejo.
		In addition to shipyard operations, ordnance manufacturing and storage was another key mission at MINS for nearly the same time period—including those used prior to the Civil War.
	www.mareisland.org /history.htm (326 words)

	Mare Island Naval Shipyard - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mare Island's first ship, the paddle-wheeled gunboat Saginaw, was launched before the Civil War, in 1859, and its last ship, the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Drum, was launched in 1970, during the Vietnam war.
		The history of Mare Island Naval Shipyard includes warships that fought in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I (where they set a record by launching the destroyer Ward in seventeen and a half days from keel laying).
		Mare Island Naval Shipyard started an intensive training program to qualify its engineers and artisans to adapt this new technology to their ship building.
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_ca_mare_island.htm (489 words)

	Mare Island Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mare Island Naval Shipyard, under study for groundwater and topsoil contamination
		The Navy purchased the original 956 acres (3.9 km²) of MINS in 1853 and commenced shipbuilding operations on September 16, 1854 under the command of then-Commander David Farragut.
		On January 1, 1918, the Marine Detatchment of Mare Island won the Rose Bowl, defeating the US Army team fielded by Camp Davis by a score of 19-7.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mare_Island_Naval_Shipyard (466 words)

	USS Pampanito - Developing a Preservation Plan
		She was taken out of service in December, 1945 and was placed in reserve at Mare Island Naval Shipyard where she underwent regular maintenance and inspections until the mid 1950s.
		During the 1960s she served as a Naval Reserve training platform at Mare Island and was no longer the recipient of regular maintenance, except for "housekeeping" activities.
		To further complicate the drafting of shipyard specifications, there was some confusion as to what standards should be used to determine the scope and intent of the work to be performed by the shipyard.
	www.maritime.org /pres1.htm (1921 words)

	Asbestos Exposure at Mare Island Naval Shipyard - California Mesothelioma Attorneys
		Shipyard workers assigned to ships during construction and overhauls at Brooklyn Navy Yard were exposed to asbestos.
		Originally known as Naval Magazine, NSY Mare Island, the shipyard was established by the Navy in 1854.
		The Mare Island Naval Shipyard's history is very rich indeed and includes the service and maintenance of warships that fought in all the major wars beginning with the Civil War.
	www.mesothelioma.com /jobsites_ca_mare_island.htm (456 words)

	It ain't what it used to be / First batch of new houses opening on Mare Island
		Mare Island Naval Shipyard played an integral role in the life of Vallejo for nearly a century and a half, starting with shipbuilding in 1854.
		When the work is complete, Mare Island is expected to have about 8,000 jobs, 1.56 million square feet of office space, 4.86 million square feet of industrial space, 157,000 square feet of retail space and 1,400 residential units.
		The history of Mare Island began in 1853, when the Navy bought 956 acres on the island across the Mare Island Strait, the mouth of the Napa River, from Gen.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/19/REG35DAI331.DTL (1280 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Mare Island Naval Shipyard
		Located near the Northern California town of Vallejo, north of San Francisco, the Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINS) was founded by the U.S. Navy in 1854, with a mission to maintain, overhaul, and refuel ships.
		This shipyard, the oldest on the West Coast, built more than 500 ships, large and small, including the USS California, the only battleship ever built on the West Coast of the United States.
		Because the shipyard yard was largely responsible for maintenance and overhauling for much of its life, workers who tore out old insulation and other asbestos-containing products were at especially high risk.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesMareisland.php (252 words)

	Flyway Festival Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Established in 1854, Mare Island Naval Shipyard is the oldest Naval installation in the Pacific and much of the developed portions of the Island have been designated as a National Historic Landmark, the highest designation bestowed by the National Park Service on a historic resource.
		You may visit the graveyard where Anna Turner and her family and hundreds of other naval personnel from the U.S., as well as other countries, are buried by taking our Sierra Club led walk or our carpool tours to the top of Mare Island's hill.
		Mare Island consists of 5,657 acres, including 3,075 acres of tidal and non-tidal wetlands that provide habitat for many wetland dependent species, including the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.
	www.sfbayflywayfestival.com /mareis.asp (1560 words)

	Mare Island Naval Shipyard: World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		Closed in 1996, Mare Island was conveyed to the City of Vallejo in 2002 for reuse and redevelopment.
		The Mare Island Naval Shipyard, a National Historic Landmark, is roughly bounded by Mare Island Strait, Causeway St., Cedar Ave., Mesa, Ribeiro and Tyler rds.
		Visitors may also be interested in the nearby Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum at 734 Marin St. in downtown Vallejo, or viewing the shipyard from sea on the Baylink Ferry (www.baylinkferry.com).
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/mar.htm (555 words)

	Shipyard
		Legend, well founded in fact, now has it that the name was changed when an old white mare owned by General Mariano Gadalupe Vallejo, Mexican Commandante for Northern California, fell off the raft while being ferried across Carquinez Straits and swam ashore on the island.
		He immediately took command of Mare Island and commenced the creation of a naval base that eventually became the largest of its kind in the nation.
		But possibly the greatest monument to his devotion to the naval service is at Mare Island where he commenced an arsenal of strength that would influence the success of the United States through five wars.
	www.vallejomuseum.org /shipyard.htm (457 words)

	33:0304(37)NG - - IFPTE Local 25 and Navy, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA - - 1988 FLRAdec NG - - v33 p304
		United States Marines guard and patrol the drydock areas of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in order to safeguard highly sensitive national defense equipment which is serviced and repaired at the facility.
		The Union contends that the proposal concerns the conditions of employment of bargaining unit employees because there is a direct relationship between the new procedure regarding the carrying of weapons and the safety of unit employees.
		The Union asserts that under the Agency's regulations, the Agency may seek a waiver of the requirement that the guards be armed.
	www.flra.gov /decisions/v33/33-037-4.html (1189 words)

	Featured Project - Early Transfer and Environmental Remediation - Former Mare Island Shipyard, Vallejo, California
		The former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, located 25 miles north of San Francisco in Vallejo, California, began operations in 1854 and was closed in 1996 as a result of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC).
		Soil, groundwater, and dredge ponds were impacted due to improper disposal of hazardous wastes from shipbuilding and unsafe ordnance from firing range operations.
		WESTON facilitated the early transfer of the western half of Mare Island under a Finding of Suitability for Early Transfer, an element of BRAC that allows the government to transfer property prior to completion of environmental cleanup, enabling significant cost and schedule savings.
	www.westonsolutions.com:8008 /projects/project_mareisland.htm (836 words)

	USS Iowa - Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square
		USS Iowa is poised to become a national icon and attraction in an unprecedented manner at the West Coast's oldest naval facility, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California.
		USS Iowa at Mare Island promises to be a uniquely educational and moving experience.
		USS Iowa at Mare Island, Vallejo, sports breathtaking bay vistas and is at the gateway to the wine country of world famous Napa Valley.
	www.battleshipiowa.org (799 words)

	USS Sargo (SSN 583) History Timeline
		Commissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard; CDR Daniel P. Brooks in command.
		Reached the vicinity of St. Mathews Island where she finds ice, block and brash, and where, after rendezvousing with the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker STATEN ISLAND (WAGB 278), she makes her first stationary dive while surrounded by ice.
		Making her first pass under the pole at 0934, the submarine began a clover leaf search for thin ice and at 1049 she surfaced, according to her log, 25 feet from the pole, through 36 inches of ice.
	www.ssn583.com /Timeline.htm (1933 words)

	Hunters Point / San Francisco Naval Shipyard
		Treasure Island Naval Station Hunters Point Annex (NSTI Hunters Point) is in the southeast portion of San Francisco County, California.
		In 1946, a group, designated as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL), was detailed to arrange for the decontamination and disposition of several ships that had returned from nuclear weapons tests at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
		The committee's intent was to turn this defunct shipyard land over to the city for the purpose of economic benefit to the region.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/hunters_point.htm (1460 words)

	Arc Ecology Project: Mare Island Naval Shipyard
		Every year, thousands of people come to Mare Island for the San Francisco Flyway Festival, a grassroots event celebrating the environmental richness of the San Pablo Bay and its wildlife habitat.
		In addition, the concern that the environmental cleanup and reuse activities at Mare Island Shipyard may leave significant amounts of contamination, that, combined with increased residential, commercial and industrial uses at the former base site, will add direct stress to the Refuge and State Wildlife Area and the San Pablo Bay.
		The obvious need to the communities of Vallejo and American Canyon, Mare Island and the entire region of the North San Pablo Bay, point to the strong demand for the type of programs that Arc Ecology provides.
	www.arcecology.org /MareIsland.shtml (513 words)

	Mare Island work by Tim Baskerville
		Mare Island Naval Shipyard, established in 1854, was the first naval facility on the Pacific Coast.
		The reuse plan for Mare Island calls for preservation of many of the island’s historic buildings while allowing for industrial, commercial, retail and residential development.
		Also of note: night work done on Mare Island by two of the original 'Nocturnes' - Tom Paiva and Tim Baskerville, is included in an exhibit, Shooting the Island: Photographers View Mare Island at the Fetterly Gallery, March 25 to April 29, 2006.
	www.thenocturnes.com /gallery/mareisland.html (284 words)

	USS Scamp II
		The second Scamp, a nuclear submarine, was laid down on 23 January 1959 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif., launched on 8 October 1960, sponsored by Mrs.
		Leaving the shipyard Scamp completed her final acceptance trials and began local operations in the San Diego area.
		In June 1966 after the installation of the SUBSAFE package and overhaul, she left Mare Island and returned to training cruises in the San Diego operating area.
	www.navyhistory.com /Submarine/scampII.html (821 words)

	FogBay: 333 - Dry Dock, Mare Island Naval Shipyard
		Dating back to 1854 Mare Island was the first naval shipyard on the West Coast and in its history 513 ships were built here, from side-wheeled gunboats to nuclear submarines.
		During World War II Mare Island set a record that's never been broken when it built a destroyer, the USS Ward, in only 17 days.
		In 1996 the Department of Defense shut down Mare Island and it is now in the process of transforming the three by one mile island into commercial, educational, and residential property.
	fogbay.com /2006/01/333-dry-dock-mare-island-naval.html (139 words)

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