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	United States Navy reserve fleets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In rare cases the general public may intercede for ships from the reserve fleet that are about to be scrapped; usually asking for the Navy to donate them for use as museums or memorials.
		The groups of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet were at Boston, Charleston, Florida, New London, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, and Texas?.
		The groups of the Pacific Reserve Fleet were at Alameda, Bremerton, Columbia River, Long Beach, Mare Island, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, and Tacoma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Navy_reserve_fleets (238 words)

	Reserve fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A reserve fleet or (less formally) mothball fleet is a collection of naval vessels that are fully equipped for fighting but are not currently needed.
		Ships of the reserve fleet are usually tied up in backwater areas near naval bases or shipyards, to speed the reactivation process.
		In practice, the fate of most reserve ships is to be scrapped; after a few years their technology is too far behind for them to be worth upgrading.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mothball_fleet (212 words)

	Fed Nat'l R page
		The new United Star Fleet used these until Y140, when they were scrapped or placed in the mothball fleet.
		The new United Star Fleet used these until Y135, when they were scrapped or placed in the mothball fleet.
		Reclassified as a Light Frigate by Star Fleet, it was used as a supplement to the POL until Y150.
	www.mninter.net /~phdship/02natships.htm (1348 words)

	why does starfleet have a mothball fleet? - FileFront Gaming Forums
		It's much cheaper to maintain an operational fleet of old ships than it is to build an enire fleet of new ones and maintain a mothball fleet.
		You see the thing with mothball fleets of starships is they don't require you maintain them, you can put them in an area of space, vent the atmosphere and things like that and just leave them there.
		But surely the recources needed to build and maintain an etirely new fleet as well as an old mothball fleet outweigh the recources needed to keep a fleet of very old ships operational, even if you do have to repair them between every mission.
	forums.filefront.com /showthread.php?p=2283803#post2283803 (3052 words)

	HAFS Rosetta class Gun Cruiser
		Some ships in mothballs have been hardly in operation and all their systems are in excellent shape.
		It is estimated that this will be able to keep that active fleet at 100% of present level but the mothball fleet at only about have of present levels after all upgrades are finished.
		The ship was only eight years old when it was put in the mothball fleet and is considered in the best condition of any of the Everest class.
	members.tripod.com /~The_Kitsune/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/HAFN_Rosetta.htm (2402 words)

	USNB GTMO History, RADM M. E. Murphy Vol. 1, Ch. 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Following the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in June 1950, a major reactivation program was undertaken for ships taken from the “Mothball Fleet” as part of a general naval expansion to meet the emergency.
		As a result, it was necessary for the Fleet Training Group to discontinue providing Medical and Supply assistance to ships under training, and to limit instruction to navigation, communications, gunnery, seamanship, CIC, damage control, engineering, anti-submarine warfare and air operations.
		On February 11, 1958, Commander Fleet Training Group recommended to the Chief of Naval Operations that the Center be disestablsihed and that its mission and personnel be transferred to the Group.
	www.nsgtmo.navy.mil /history/gtmohistorymurphyvol1ch26.htm (1092 words)

	DD-14 DANFS
		The fleet reached San Francisco in May 1908, and the destroyers were detached and reassigned to the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, an organization not administratively assigned to the Pacific Fleet.
		On 25 March 1912, the Pacific Reserve Fleet was established under the command of Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds.
		This organization was established in response to severe manpower shortages and was not similar in any respect to the contemporary reserve or "mothball" fleet.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd14txt.htm (1071 words)

	HAFS Intrepid class fleet Carrier
		In ships in active service with various fleets, the fighters that are carried are modern star fighters but in the ships in the C.A.F. mothball fleet, ancient star fighters can be found in the hangers.
		Intrepid class in the CAF mothball fleet or in service in the Human Alliance Forces Navy are named after famous carriers (Both Ocean and Space).
		Ship not in the H.F.N. fleets may have totally different types of vehicles as ships compliment but numbers will be about the same for the various classes of vehicles.
	members.tripod.com /~The_Kitsune/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/HAFN_Intrepid.htm (1352 words)

	Boot3f (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although a small article did appear in the Bremerton Sun a week later reporting this event as a "routine ship's movement," no one questioned or seemed to care why a previously mothballed, older-vintage aircraft carrier would be moved from the mothball fleet and into a dry dock in the shipyard.
		For the first time in a decade, since her return from the Gulf War, the Midway was once again alive with activity, and the personification isn't too far overdone to say that she seemed to radiate with excitement the whole length of her nine-hundred-foot hull at the prospects of getting a makeover.
		As the Navy's number-one priority, she was put on the fast-track to completion, to be converted from an aging derelict in the mothball fleet to modern-day fighting ship.
	members.aol.com /midwayoi/boot3f.htm (1154 words)

	Arc Ecology Project: Mothball Fleet at Suisun Bay
		Arc Ecology Project: Mothball Fleet at Suisun Bay
		The rationale for the "mothball" fleet was to maintain a supply of large capitol ships that, if necessary, could be pressed into service to convoy goods and supplies to troops overseas.
		Arc Ecology is seeking support to revise the ship scrapping project plan and to evaluate the environmental threats posed by these vessels.
	www.arcecology.org /Mothball.shtml (354 words)

	Scenic Gallery
		She become known as the "Spirit of Star Fleet" during a confrontation with an alien task force and a new Federation protectorate race.
		Finally, she took the initiative and lead her small fleet against the task force and succeeded in liberating the protectorate.
		Exact details of what happened are sketchy, but before she committed the fleet, she was quoted ending her address to the fleet as saying "...Ok, lets do it!" Simple words, but they were spoken with such emotion and determination, they are credited with giving the unified fleet the spirit it needed to succeed.
	www.sfbnexus.com /scenic_gallery.htm (991 words)

	Delta Sturgeon Fishing hosted by www.sturgeonfishing.com
		Frank Arnold of Richmond caught a 129lb, 71 3/4" sturgeon at the east end of the Mothball fleet using grass shrimp.
		George Thieme of Oakland caught a 67lb, 69.5" sturgeon at the west end of the Mothball fleet on a grass shrimp/eel combo.
		Vicky Baker of Petaluma caught a 60" sturgeon at the Mothball Fleet.
	www.sturgeonfishing.com /sturgeon_caught_and_location.htm (2374 words)

	Amazon.com: Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy: Books: Daniel Madsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A pictorial history of the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet, this handsome book takes a rare look at the so-called fleet behind the fleet, from the end of World War II to the present.
		These are the ships of the forgotten fleet, built for war but resting at peace in coastal parking lots on both sides of the country, their story told for the first time.
		If you are looking for a book that instead uses the mothball fleet as a link to the past, that views the ships as pieces of Americana that one could reach out and touch as tangible, rather than abstract, history, then it is a book you should look at.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557505438?v=glance (1928 words)

	Retired fleet stirs a wave of nostalgia among caretakers
		Despite that, kindly don't refer to the ships by their commonly used moniker, "the Mothball Fleet." At least, not in the presence of Joe Pecoraro, who chafes every time he hears the term.
		Still, for the bulk of the 94 ships that make up the fleet, the only action they'll be seeing is being docked at the bay, awaiting a possible date with the scrap heap, although any serviceable parts will be removed for use on other ships.
		Not only was this tugboat, built in 1941, the oldest member of the Suisun fleet, it also happens to be the last surviving vessel from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/07/EB241589.DTL (1089 words)

	Marine Corps Times - News - More News.
		The amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood is the latest and largest addition to the Pearl Harbor ghost fleet, a little-publicized but very visible collection of decommissioned Navy ships that are sold to other countries, mothballed for possible re-use, headed for the scrap pile or designated to become targets in “sink exercises.”
		You think back to the times you were on the ship, and you think of all the people, in the passageways and mess deck, talking story,” said Luis Gaytan, a marine inspector for the facility who from 1995 to 1997 was aboard the Cushing, a destroyer now in the ghost fleet.
		Tora!” a tugboat was positioned behind a mothballed destroyer and in the movie it appeared that steam was coming out of the destroyer’s stacks.
	www.marinecorpstimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1565346.php (707 words)

	ZURBphotos :: mothball fleet photos (beautiful large pictures of ships) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This mothball fleet photo set was taken in September 2002 in a zodiac boat in the Suisun Bay.
		All of these mothball fleet pictures were shot at a higher resolution and downsampled to a 640x480 pixel resolution with a jpeg compression.
		Some processing has been done with photoshop, but I have tried to keep the original vision of the photo.
	www.zurb.com /mothball_fleet (106 words)

	Navy Times - News - This Week's Navy Times .
		The destroyer, commanded by Cmdr. Gene F. Harr, is scheduled to join the Navy’s mothball fleet.
		Parche, the last active Sturgeon-class attack submarine, is due to be decommissioned Oct. 19, after serving the fleet since 1973.
		Parche was configured for research and development from 1987 to 1991 and was used primary for intelligence gathering and underwater salvage.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-NAVYPAPER-369792.php (381 words)

	The Glacier Society - Uniting Polar Interest Around The Globe
		The ship, rich in Cold War history and the lore of Arctic exploration, is at the center of years of work by The Glacier Society, East Coast lawmakers and a national network of volunteers.
		Monday and Tuesday are planned as big days for the project, as volunteer crews come to town to cut a donated Navy generator out of one mothballed vessel and install in the Glacier.
		So the only ice-breaker left from the old fleet, Admiral Byrd's ship which also launched early rocket versions in tests of that then-developing technology, was to be saved.
	www.glaciersociety.org /press/BH235press.htm (825 words)

	Destroyer Squadron TWO
		With a reorganization of the Fleet in September 1920, the term squadron came into its present usage.
		In April 1931, Destroyer Squadron TWO was reestablished and operated with the Pacific Fleet until January 1937 at which time the entire squadron was decommissioned in San Diego.
		As part of the Chief of Naval Operations reorganization of the Atlantic Fleet's surface force, seven destroyer squadrons were established in Norfolk as of 1 September.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/desron2.htm (627 words)

	ABC Revell Jacques Cousteau Calypso Model Ship Boat Billings Minesweeper Kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy - A handsomely illustrated history of the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet, this book takes a rare look at the so-called fleet behind the fleet, from the end of World War II to the present.
		Through brief ship histories and photographs of the ships and shipyards where they were laid up, the author tells the story of how these warships were paid off and preserved, how some were reactivated, and how most left the reserve fleet to be broken up.
		Additional photos of the ships in action remind readers that forgotten though they were while in mothballs, many had made their marks on history."
	www.rocketfin.com /mcc/calypso_ship.html (369 words)

	Bob's Links and Rants: The Mothball Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		No, it's a side view of one of the rows of the mothball fleet in the Suisun Bay portion of the Sacramento River near Vallejo, California.
		The fleet contains over 150 merchant and military ships tied together and rusting away.
		I had some pretty good views of the fleet from the train.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bgoodsel/post911/2005/01/mothball-fleet.htm (78 words)

	Fed Y page
		The new United Starfleet used these until Y120, when they were upgraded or placed in the mothball fleets.
		The new United Starfleet used these until Y120, when they were upgraded or placed in the mothball fleet.
		The Tellarites had a destroyer class ship in service in their National Fleet which, like their Heavy Cruiser, was turned over to the new unified Star Fleet.
	www.mninter.net /~phdship/02eyships.htm (519 words)

	Suisun Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Special thanks to Steve Lapkin, webmaster at www.USSFox.com for taking these pictures of the CGs in the MARAD Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay northeast of San Francisco near Benecia, California.
		Welcome to Suisun Bay home to one of the strangest fleets of ships you'll ever see, the "Mothball Fleet".
		The show includes topside tours of many of the ships there, information on their current state of preservation and what's going to happen to them, up close views of the CGs from the water as well overhead shots from a helicopter.
	www.usshorne.net /horne/photo_suisun_bay.htm (229 words)

	Suisun Bay Mothballed Fleet
		The mothball fleet is said to be the largest collection of ships on the Pacific Ocean.
		Some of the fleet will be scrapped, but some of them are part of a reserve military fleet administered by the Department of Transportation's maritime administration.
		Lake Herman Road (reachable from the east end of East 2nd Street in Benecia, as well as an exit off Interstate 680) heads southeast to the gate of the Mothball Fleet access road.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/CA3198 (98 words)

	Naval Aviation 1946-49
		Ships were retired to a mothball fleet; aircraft were placed in storage.
		Within months fleet elements assigned to areas for the purpose of supporting occupation forces were given the additional and familiar task of supporting the Nation's policy in areas on opposite sides of the world.
		In the fleet there were problems of transition partly in size but particularly in weapons and tactics developed either as a result of combat experience or of technological advances.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/avchr6.htm (7153 words)

	USS John Young (DD 973)
		Decommissioned on September 19, 2002, the JOHN YOUNG spent the following months with the mothball fleet in Bremerton, Wash., before she was towed to the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hi., in preparation for being sunk as a target.
		On April 11, 2004, JOHN YOUNG left Pearl Harbor on her final voyage and was subsequently disposed of as a target off Kauai on April 13.
		Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, JOHN YOUNG arrived at San Diego, Calif., on June 3, 1978.
	navysite.de /dd/dd973.htm (2647 words)

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		The Power Lines have been the hot spot, but a few are being hooked near the Rio Vista Bridge.
		SUISUN BAY - Sturgeon are at the east end of the Mothball Fleet, Roe and Ryer Island and Grizzly Island.
		Striped bass are in the vicinity of the Mothball Fleet, but not in great numbers.
	www.thereporter.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3399406 (302 words)

	Suisun Bay
		The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NRDF), under the custody of MARAD, is an inactive reserve source of basic Merchant design type ships that could be activated within 20 - 120 days to meet the shipping requirements of the United States during national emergencies.
		Naval auxiliaries are maintained at the fleet by MARAD on a retention basis for the Navy.
		The US Army Corps of Engineers will be administering the design and construction of a channel deepening project and flood control project for the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/suisun-bay.htm (718 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet
		The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a collection of mothballed warships near Benecia, California (More info).
		The ships are also commonly referred to as the “mothball” fleet.
		Most of the ships here and in James river are kept mothballed or for parts, not just because of the expense of disposal.
	googlesightseeing.com /2005/04/11/warships (646 words)

	Oakridge ARDM-1
		Formerly serving as the ARD-19, OAK RIDGE was originally constructed by the Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda, California, in 1943-44 with a length of 488 feet, a beam of 80 feet and a lifting capacity of 6,800 tons.
		ARD-19 was towed back to the states and on October 29, 1948, she reported for duty under the control of SERVRON 1 and the Pacific Reserve fleet at Long Beach, CA.
		She was converted to the first mobile single unit dock capable of docking the relatively new, and significantly larger, Fleet Ballistic Missle Submarines.
	home.cshore.com /sbice/oakridge.html (689 words)

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