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	USS Rainbow (AS-7) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was purchased by the U.S. Navy on 29 June 1898, placed in reduced commission 18 July, and transferred to the New York Navy Yard for fitting out for use as a distilling and station ship in the Philippines.
		She arrived in Charleston with the L-boats 9 June 1918 and proceeded independently on the 21st for the Philadelphia Navy Yard, arriving 24 June 1918.
		She entered the Boston Navy Yard 18 February 1920 for overhaul and was placed in full commission there 1 July 1920 to serve as a tender to Submarine Division 12.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Rainbow_(AS-7) (1443 words)

	USS Indianapolis (CA-35) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After delivering the first atomic bomb to the United States air base at Tinian Island on 26 July 1945, she was in the Philippine Sea when attacked at 00:14 on 30 July 1945, by a Japanese submarine.
		After overhaul at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the heavy cruiser sailed to Maine to embark President Roosevelt at Campobello Island on 1 July 1933.
		The weather along this barren chain of islands is noted for continuous coldness; persistent and unpredictable fogs; constant rain, snow, and sleet; and sudden storms with violent winds and heavy seas.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) (3664 words)

	USS Alert
		She arrived in San Francisco on 9 December and was decommissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 6 February 1890.
		She served initially on the Pacific Station, but departed Mare Island on 18 June 1891 for a summer of duty in the Bering Sea discouraging seal poachers before continuing on to permanent duty on the Asiatic Station.
		She was berthed in the Mare Island Navy Yard until transferred on loan to the California Naval Militia sometime early in 1907.
	www.multied.com /navy/Steamer/Alert.html (1928 words)

	Mare Island; Where the Pacific Fleet is Maintained
		Mare Island, Vallejo, is Uncle Sam’s principal seat of Pacific Coast defense.
		Mare Island, Vallejo, Navy Yard is the largest single industrial plant west of the Mississippi, representing nearly $100,000,000 investment.
		It is recorded that many weeks afterward, the white mare was discovered grazing on the hillside of the island across the channel from Vallejo.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist5/mareis.html (719 words)

	USS Alert (AS-4) - Ship's History
		She arrived at the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, on 24 February 1879, and began a six-month repair period.
		The warship arrived in San Francisco on 9 December 1889 and was decommissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 6 February 1890.
		Mare Island Navy Yard until transferred on loan to the California Naval Militia sometime early in 1907.
	ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /Alert.html (2373 words)

	USS Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As tantalizing as it might be to speculate on the relationship between her arrival in Honolulu and the "Bloodless Revolution of 1887" carried out during her extended stay in Honolulu, neither she nor her sailors participated in the events ashore.
		Her sojourn in the Samoan Islands came as a result of increased German influence in the islands and lasted almost without interruption—she made a roundtrip voyage to Tonga in November 1887—until the beginning of 1888.
		On 1 February she moved to the Mare Island Navy Yard where she was placed out of commission briefly for repairs between 25 March and 22 April 1889.
	www.navyhistory.com /Steamer/Adams.html (3141 words)

	Treasure Island
		Mare Island was a major naval repair base and while we were there, several cruisers were having battle damage repaired, and the destroyer USS Lavalette was in dry dock with a huge hole in her engine room, the result of being hit by a Japanese torpedo.
		Mare Island Navy Yard had one of the largest cranes on the west coast, and there, on June 30, 1943, this crane loaded the USS LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) 320 onto our main deck.
		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)

	Metroactive Features \| Notes From the Underbelly
		Mare Island, by the way, is not an island--it is a peninsula.
		Mare Island Navy Yard is the oldest Navy shipyard west of the Mississippi.
		Mare Island is eerily unchanged from the time I was there, but as the government starts divesting the land in dollops, Vallejo has grand development schemes.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.20.01/underbelly-0151.html (646 words)

	California Naval History: The Early Submarines of Mare Island
		Mare Island's early submarines were a far cry from the underwater ocean raider described by the novelist Jules Verne.
		While it was the dull, week-in and week-out grind of repairing vessels of the Fleet that kept the Navy Yard busy, it was the Yard's submarine shipbuilding aspect that would make her famous in the years to come.
		The history of Mare Island Navy Yard built warships include those that have fought in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. During World War II the shipyard repaired and returned to the battle lines 1,227 ships.
	www.militarymuseum.org /SubMareIsland.html (2539 words)

	Solano County Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Civil Engineer in charge of Department of Yards and Docks, Mare Island, a gentleman of rare attainments, was educated at Roxbury Grammar School, Mass., where he graduated in 1828.
		On May 13, 1869, he was reappointed Civil Engineer to the Mare Island Navy Yard, and continues to hold the office.
		Is now a civil engineer in the employ of the Navy Yard at Mare Island, where he has been continuously engaged for thirteen years.
	www.cagenweb.com /archives/Biographies/solano/sol-bro.htm (628 words)

	Orphan Annie a.k.a U.S.S. Case
		Annie and her crew left Mare Island Navy Yard November 27, 1943 bound for Adak, Alaska, again all by ourselves.
		In normal times it was routine after a navy yard overhaul to clean the bilges in the engineering spaces to remove debris left by the yard workmen.
		Early next morning we proceeded on to Mare Island for repair of the extensive damage that had been done by the storm.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /wgoffeney/Case/annie.htm (1754 words)

	GrampusPike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PIKE (A-5) was sent to the Puget Sound Navy Yard on June 26, 1912 and placed in reserve.
		She was struck from the Navy list January 16, 1922 and later sank as a target off Corregidor.
		USS PIKE (A-5) in drydock at Mare Island Naval Shipyard
	www.submarinehistory.com /GrampusPike.html (375 words)

	DD-337 Zane
		Zane (Destroyer No. 337) was laid down on 15 January 1919 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif. launched on 12 August 1919, sponsored by Miss Marjorie Zane, the daughter of Major R. Zane; reclassified DD-337 on 17 July 1920, and commissioned at Mare Island on 15 February 1921, Lt. Comdr.
		She departed the Hawaiian Islands on 5 April, escorting an 8-knot convoy (number 4079) to San Pedro, Calif. The high-speed minesweeper then underwent repairs and alterations at the Mare Island Navy Yard before she returned to Pearl Harbor in early June.
		Struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946, the ship was delivered to Luria Brothers and Co., Inc., on 22 October 1946; her hulk was scrapped on 3 March 1947.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-337.htm (3407 words)

	Tenders - USS Rainbow AS 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This work was completed by 2 April 1918 when Rainbow departed Mare Island to tend submarines L-6 (SS-45) and L-7 (SS-46) at Yerba Buena Island, California City, and San Pedro, Calif. On 3 May 1918 she departed San Pedro for the eastern seaboard in company with L-6 and L-7.
		Rainbow overhauled in the Philadelphia Navy Yard until 20 October 1918, then tended the 0-boats of Submarine Division 10 at Newport, R.I.; Bridgeport, Conn.; and Tompkinsville, N.Y. The tender sailed from Tompkinsville in company with Submarine Division 10, bound by way of Hampton Roads, Va., to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arriving 7 January 1919.
		Classified AS-7 on 17 July 1920, Rainbow departed the Boston Navy Yard 28 October 1920, made a brief call at the Portsmouth Navy Yard N H then reached Newport, R.I., 6 November 1921 to commence tending the 5-boats of Submarine Division 12.
	www.mississippi.net /~comcents/tendertale.com/tenders/107/107.html (1434 words)

	USS Argonne (AP-4) (AS-10) (AG-31) - Ship's History
		Accepted preliminarily by the Navy on that date, the vessel was commissioned as USS Argonne on 8 November 1921 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Lieutenant Commander Theodore H. Winters in command.
		From September of 1924 through March of 1926, USS Argonne lay at the Mare Island Navy Yard in reduced commission, undergoing her transformation from transport to submarine tender.
		Reaching the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington State, on 13 March, USS Argonne was drydocked, received stores and equipment, fuel oil and gasoline, and ultimately sailed for Dutch Harbor on 6 April.
	ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /Argonne.html (3545 words)

	USN Ships--USS Pike (Submarine # 6)
		Following three years of operations out of the Mare Island Navy Yard she was out of commission there between November 1906 and June 1908.
		Accidently sunk at the Cavite Navy Yard in April 1917, A-5 was raised and reconditioned in time to perform patrols off Manila Bay during the rest of World War I. She remained active after the conflict's end and was designated SS-6 when the Navy formally adopted the hull number system in July 1920.
		In drydock at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 23 September 1906.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/ss6.htm (558 words)

	Tenders - USS Alert AS 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She arrived in San Francisco, Calif., on 18 July, and, on the 31st, she was placed out of commission at the Mare island Navy Yard.
		Alert reached San Francisco on 21 May, moved to the Mare Island Navy Yard on the 23d, and was decommissioned there on 4 June 1898.
		When the Navy adopted the alphanumeric system of hull designations on 17 July 1920, she was classified AS-4.
	www.mississippi.net /~comcents/tendertale.com/tenders/104/104.html (2022 words)

	The keel of USS S-46 (SS-157) was laid down on 23 February 1921
		In December, she returned to the Mare Island Navy Yard for an overhaul; and, during June of 1928, the submarine resumed operations out of her home port.
		En route north, USS S-46 underwent overhaul at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and, in August, she commenced operating out of the Connecticut submarine base.
		In October, the submarine shifted her base to Ordnance Island, Bermuda; and, in December, after the Japanese attack on the Territory of Hawaii on 7 December 1941...which plunged the United States into World War II as an active participant, USS S-46 returned to the Panama Canal Zone.
	www.geocities.com /ussubvetwwii/S-46.html (1469 words)

	From Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 9 March 1899 she returned to Mare Island Navy Yard and was assigned to the Pacific Station.
		Leaving Mare Island 2 April 1899 she made her way across the Pacific, via Samoa and Honolulu, to Guam where she served at times as station ship (13 August 1899-28 March 1901).
		On 24 April 1917, bound for Mexican waters, she was stranded on Cerros Island during a fog.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/ac15.htm (452 words)

	WWI Submarines
		When readied, the O-15 departed with the tender UNALGA, followed by the O-16 and O-14 which were accompanied to the Mare Island Navy Yard by the Tug TILLAMOOK.
		Still, with the exception of a Submarine Base and its pier which were leased from the city of Los Angeles' Harbor Department, the 1,400 men stationed there, and the Reserve Training Center, other shore facilities in the San Pedro area were non-existent. By 1922, the Submarine Base's facilities were soon being shared with destroyers.
		The Navy now viewed the submarine as being a type of destroyer or torpedo boat that could operate with the battle fleet.
	www.submarinehistory.com /WWIa.html (1093 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		She was stationed at Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, California and was commanded by V.L. Cottman.
		She was put in for repairs in 1905 until 1908 at the Mare Island Navy Yard.
		She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/08_legacy/class_monitor_22.html (227 words)

	Palau Technical Divers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The USS Perry (DD-340) was laid down on 15 September 1920 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; launched 29 October 1921; sponsored by Miss Anne R. Scudder; and commissioned 7 August 1922, Lt. Richard H. Booth in command.
		Alterations at Mare Island followed and on 31 July, she departed, as convoy escort for Pearl Harbor.
		She broke in two at the point of damage and at 1607 sank in 260' of water, 700 yards away from the south east corner of Angaur Island.
	www.palautechnical.com /perry.html (823 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Langley (CV 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jupiter was converted into the first U.S. aircraft carrier at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., for the purpose of conducting experiments in the new idea of seaborne aviation, a field of unlimited possibilities.
		The era of the aircraft carrier was born introducing into the Navy what was to become the vanguard of its forces in the future.
		On 25 October 1936 she put into Mare Island Navy Yard, Calif., for overhaul and conversion to a seaplane tender.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv01-langley/cv01-langley.html (902 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Rhode Island (BB 21) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rhode Island underwent extensive shakedown and acceptance trials on the U.S. east coast between Hampton Roads and Boston before being assigned to Division 2, Squadron 1, Atlantic Fleet 1 January 1907.
		Subsequently entering New York Navy Yard for overhaul, Rhode Island was reassigned 8 March 1909 to Division 3, Squadron 1.
		Rhode Island continued her duties attached to the Atlantic Fleet up to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/rhodeisland/bb17-ri.html (850 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was initially earmarked for transfer to the Royal Navy under a lend-lease agreement.
		However, the Navy decided to retain the ship for its own use and she was reclassified to DE 24 on 7 January 1943.
		Returning, via Funafuti in the Ellice Islands, to Hawaii, Whitman underwent engine repairs at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in January 1944, before she participated in the invasion and occupation of the Marshalls, escorting a group of tankers (designated as Task Unit (TU) 53.8.3) to Majuro on D plus four days.
	www.usswhitman.com /history.htm (988 words)

	Claxton history 1
		The first CLAXTON was DD 140 built and commissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard in 1919.
		The ship was in the yard until May 17 for minor repairs and modifications.
		On June 27 we were underway with a large Task Force to cover operations in the Solomon Islands, this force cruised the Coral Sea until July 25.
	www.ultravision.net /clyce/Claxton/history.htm (1779 words)

	USN Ships--USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
		Less than two weeks after her arrival, she was badly damaged in multiple Japanese air attacks by a bomb hit in the after engine room and numerous near misses.
		After a period of duty at Ulithi she sailed in June 1945 for an overhaul at the Terminal Island repair facility at San Pedro, California.
		She became the Philippine Navy's Andreas Bonifacio in April 1976 and was decommissioned by them in June 1985.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/avp24.htm (1043 words)

	Solano County Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EDMUND R. Commandant Mare Island Navy Yard, was born in Pennsylvania, May 6, 1821; appointed midshipman from Missouri, April 1, 1839; attached to sloop “Marion,” Brazil Squadron, 1839-41; frigate “Congress,” Mediterranean and Brazil Squadrons, 1842-44; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845; promoted to passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845; frigate “Cumberland,” Home Squadron, 1846-47.
		The Commodore’s next official duties were in connection with the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, where he was three months, when he was placed on the Examining Board at Washington, serving on it for six months.
		Promoted to the rank of Commodore April 26, 1876, and, having been appointed to Mare Island Navy Yard, he relieved Admiral Rodgers of the command April 17, 1877.
	www.cagenweb.com /archives/Biographies/solano/sol-cohl.htm (450 words)

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