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  USS Rendova (CVE-114) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In October, she arrived at Bremerton, where, after overhaul, she was decommissioned, 27 January 1950, and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
In commission, in reserve in 1953, she continued her training activities off the west coast, and in 1954 returned to the active fleet and another WestPac deployment, this time as a hunter-killer carrier.
She reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco Group, 2 February 1955 and was decommissioned 30 June.
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 USS Charleston (C-22) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
She cleared San Francisco 6 December 1906 to begin service with the Pacific Squadron, sailing along the west coast from Magdalena Bay, Mexico, to Esquimalt, British Columbia, on exercises and fleet maneuvers until 10 June 1908, when she entered the Puget Sound Navy Yard to prepare for the long passage to the Asiatic Station.
Based on Cavite, P.I., in the winter, the Fleet moved north each summer to Chefoo, China, to continue exercises and visits to ports of China, Japan, Manchuria, and Russia, presenting a powerful reminder of American interest in the Far East.
Placed in commission in reserve 14 September 1912, Charleston joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet, remaining at Puget Sound Navy Yard as a receiving ship through early 1916, aside from a voyage to San Francisco in October 1913 as flagship for the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Reserve Fleet.
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Decommissioned on 3 May 1910, St. Louis was recommissioned, in reserve, on 7 October 1911 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
From 14 July 1912 until 26 April 1913, she operated in support of the Oregon Naval Militia, then returned to the Puget Sound Navy Yard to be placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet for a year.
In reserve until struck from the Navy list on 20 March 1930, St. Louis' hulk was sold for scrapping on 13 August in accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament.
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 United States Navy reserve fleets biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In some cases, for instance, at the outset of the Korean War, many ships were successfully reactivated, at a considerable savings in time and money; but the usual fate of ships in the reserve fleet is to become too old and obsolete to be of any use, at which point they are sent for scrapping.
The groups of the Pacific Reserve Fleet were at Alameda, Bremerton, Columbia River, Long Beach, Mare Island, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, and Tacoma.
As of 2004, the administrative organization is known as the Navy Inactive Fleet, and is headquartered at Portsmouth, Virginia.
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 LST's of the United States Navy
She was decommissioned in 1970 and assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Orange, Tex. On 7 June 1972, Traverse County was transferred to the Military Sealift Command (MSC).
Initially assigned to the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, LST-1167 operated off the east coast of the United States and in the Caribbean and made one deployment to the Mediterranean prior to her transfer to the Pacific Fleet in 1958.
Whitfield County was assigned to the Pacific Fleet in 1956 and was later homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.
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 Park County
LST–1077 was placed in reserve and berthed with the Columbia River Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
On 6 September 1950, LST–1077 recommissioned and joined the Pacific Fleet in the Far East where she served in operations in support of United Nations operations to repel communist aggression in Korea.
She then returned to San Francisco in 1955 and decommissioned 12 May. She was again placed in reserve, and berthed with the San Francisco Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
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 DD239 - USS STURTEVANT
No longer needed in the Pacific, the destroyer escort was ordered back to the Atlantic Fleet, carrying passengers to San Pedro on the first leg and reaching Charleston, S.C., on 25 September.
In October, she shifted to the inactive fleet berthing area at Green Cove Springs, Fla., where she was decommissioned on 24 March 1946.
She continued to so serve in the Pacific Fleet until June of 1960, when she was placed out of commission and berthed with the San Diego Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
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 AllRefer.com - National City, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The city, however, is primarily residential, marked by a steady growth in population since 1970.
It further serves as the headquarters of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
We encourage you to verify any critical information with the relevant authorities.
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 Park County (LST-1077)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
After shakedown, LST-1077 was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and proceeded via the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor arriving 19 July.
LST-1077 was placed in reserve and berthed with the Columbia River Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
On 6 September 1950, LST-1077 recommissioned and joined the Pacific Fleet in the Far East where she served in operations in support of United Nations operations to repel communist aggression in Korea.
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 History - USS Topeka
On 29 November 1965, however, she headed back to the western pacific for the first deployment during which her primary mission was to support the American and South Vietnamese forces fighting the communists.
During her five months with the 6th Fleet, she ranged the length of the "middle sea." In late September and early October, the warship participated in NATO exercise "Eager Beaver," conducted in the eastern end of the Mediterranean.
The warship was towed to Philadelphia and was berthed with the reserve fleet group there.
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 CV-37 USS Princeton
Following shakedown off Cuba, Princeton, with Air Group 81 embarked,remained in the Atlantic and operated with the 8th Fleet until June 1946.Then transferred to the Pacific Fleet, she arrived at San Diego on the 31st,and departed again 3 July to carry the body of Philippine President ManuelQueson back to Luzon for burial.
In February1953 she was back off the Korean coast and until the end of the conflictlaunched planes for close air support, "Cherokee" strikes againstsupply, artillery, and troop concentrations in enemy territory, and againstroad traffic.
For the next five years she alternated HUK exercisesoff the west coast with similar operations in the western Pacific and, inlate 1957-early 1958' in the Indian Ocean Persian Gulf area.
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 Fleet of Heroes Awaits Duty / Mothballed ships sit poised for call that may never come
The fleet may look like just a lonely, floating junkyard, but hidden among the discards are some nautical treasures and old heroes.
Fleet Superintendent Joe Pecarero bristles at the nickname ``Mothball Fleet,'' preferring the proper name: the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
The GloMar Explorer, which recently was removed from the fleet to be re-outfitted for oil exploration, was built for the CIA in 1974 by Howard Hughes in a failed attempt to recover a sunken Soviet missile submarine off Hawaii.
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 DD-14 Truxtun
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.
On two occasions, in the summer of 1914 and again in the summer of 1916, the torpedo boat destroyer steamed to Mexican waters to protect American interests during the series of political convulsions that plagued that nation during the second decade of the twentieth century.
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 Document 10
During 1911 and 1912, she made a cruise with the Fleet to Hawaiian waters and in 1914 steamed on special duty off the west coast of Mexico for the protection of American interests.
She remained off Mexico during the Vera Cruz crisis, and returned to Bremerton, Wash., to become a part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Detached from the Pacific Fleet after her arrival in Florida 28 May, she spent the next 2 months at the Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, engaging in a series of important early experiments with balloons and seaplanes launched from the deck.
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 Ship's History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
MAGOFFIN remained in the western Pacific conveying troops and cargo between Japan and Korea and participating in amphibious exercises, two at Sagami Wan, Japan, and one in Korea.
Her tours in the western Pacific have been in support of operations in Southeast Asia, transporting troops and cargo, participating in amphibious operations, and, on occasion, serving as station ship.
She decommissioned 10 April 1968 and entered the Naval Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisan Bay, Calif., under the custody of the Maritime Administration.
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 The Offshore Radio Fleet
On July 13 the Missouri was part of the fleet that attacked Honshu and Hokkaido, shells from the Missouri aiding in the destruction of the Nihon works at Muroran and on targets around Hichiti.
She was decommissioned and moved to the Bremerton group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet on February 26, 1955 following a final series of visits to Portugal, Spain and Guantanamo Bay.
At the end of events associated with the Pacific War, His Majesty Hirohito, the Showa Emperor of Japan, announced on radio on August 15 1945 that the war was over.
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 From Sea to Shining Sea - Navy Ships
She was in the Pacific when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and took part in the abortive Wake Island relief expedition later in that month.
She then was sent to join the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean and participated in raids on Japanese positions in the East Indies during April and May 1944.
Yorktown then steamed to the South Pacific, where she participated in a series of raids and other operations that climaxed in the Battle of Coral Sea in early May. In this action, in which she was damaged by enemy bombs, her planes attacked two Japanese aircraft carriers, helping to sink Shoho and damaging Shokaku.
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 USS Batfish (SS 310) Statistics (Post War)
Then on April 6, 1946, she was decommissioned from the Regular Navy and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet as a training vessel.
As a unit of Submarine Division 122, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, she served the remainder of her commissioned career in training operations in the Caribbean and along the eastern seaboard.
As the Navy began to retire the obsolete fleet submarines in which these men served, SubVet chapters in coastal states began acquiring them as war memorials for their communities.
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 DD-794
On January 5, 1955, the destroyer rejoined the Sixth Fleet for NATO maneuvers in the North Atlantic and later to the Mediterranean Sea under the Command of Lt. Commander Richard Billings.
Following patrol of the Taiwan Straits, combined fleet maneuvers with SEATO nations, and goodwill visits to ports in the Philippines and Japan, she returned to Long Beach on August 24, 1957 for inactivation.
The Irwin was decommissioned on January 10, 1958, and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, berthed at Mare Island, California.
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 USS Hickman County - LST 825   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The momentous Pacific campaign was in full swing at Okinawa when LST-825 reached that rocky Japanese fortress via Pearl Harbor, Guam, Eniwetok, and Ulithi on 21 April to discharge troop reinforcements and cargo.
With the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, LST-825 was recommissioned 3 November 1950 with Lt Thomas R Ashton in command.
Assigned to LST Reserve Squadron 2, she reported to the U.S. Naval Amphibious Base at Little Creek, Va., 19 June 1963, to conduct amphibious warfare training.
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 USS LERAY WILSON (DE 414)
After her initial shakedown cruise, she headed for the Pacific war zone on 15 July 1944.
On 25 December she departed enroute San Francisco, arriving 16 January 1946 where she joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet and was decommissioned 15 January 1947.
From August 1954 until reentering the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 30 January 1959, she participated in four Western Pacific Cruises.
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 Top Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In February 1946, she got underway for the United States, and on March 17, 1947, she decommissioned and was berthed at San Diego as a unit of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, she participated in "Operation Blue Jay" in Arctic waters.
Following that duty, she was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and homeported at Norfolk.
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 Detail Page
Subsequently assigned to the 1st Submarine Division, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, in January 1910, and to the Pacific Fleet in March 1911, the submarine torpedo boat operated locally off the California coast until assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 28 June 1912.
Commissioned at Olongapo a week later, on 17 April, A-3 was assigned to the First Submarine Division, Torpedo Flotilla, Asiatic Fleet, and remained in active service with that unit until decommissioned at Cavite on 25 July 1921.
Dismantled and used as a target by ships of the Asiatic Fleet, A-3 was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 January 1922.
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 USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE 86)
The majority of her missions carried her from Pearl Harbor, or via Pearl Harbor from the California coast, to various islands in the southern or central Pacific which served as staging areas for the war being waged farther north or west.
In January 1945, the South Pacific was dropped from SITKOH BAY’s itinerary, and she concentrated on replenishing the 3rd Fleet in the Central Pacific.
She joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet and was berthed at San Francisco.
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 History of the USS INTREPID CV-11
Though the bulk of the enemy fleet had gone elsewhere, many ships and scores of Jap planes were destroyed before the Navy planes flew back to their carriers at sunset.
Post repair trials held 3 June proved satisfactory, and INTREPID was ready to rejoin the fleet when she moored at Alameda Naval Air Station on the 4th Packed with spare aircraft, motorized equipment and miscellaneous cargo, the carrier stood out for Pearl Harbor on 9 June 1944.
Halsey's Third Fleet planes conducted the spectacular "Month of Fire" raids on the Japanese mainland during July, beginning their skyward siege of Honshu on the 10th and then thundering north to hit Hokkaido.
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 USS Decatur (DDG 31)
The unrepaired DECATUR was placed "in commission, in reserve" later in the year to await modernization, and was formally decommissioned in June 1965.
She was reclassified as a guided-missile destroyer in September 1966, receiving the new hull number DDG 31, and was recommissioned in April 1967.
In September of that year she transferred to the Pacific Fleet, her assignment for the remainder of her commissioned service.
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 Trathen page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Returning to her station off the east coast, Trathen operated as part of the Atlantic Fleet until January 1955 when she once again returned to the Pacific Fleet and joined WestPac.
Returning to the states, the Trathen reported to Commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet to begin her second period of inactivation.
She was decommissioned on 11 May 1965 and placed in reserve.
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