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    The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean. It is located 25 miles (40 km) northeast...
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    recommendations and Mare Island was purchased for use as a naval shipyard in July 1853 at a cost of $83,410. On September 16, 1854, Mare Island became the first...
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    Naval Shipyard was a short-lived shipyard formed in 1965 with the combination of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard....
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    38°05′20″N 122°16′19″W / 38.089°N 122.272°W / 38.089; -122.272 Mare Island Naval Shipyard Airfield was a post World War 1 US Navy airfield that opened in...
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    submarines, were built at the Crescent Shipyard and the Union Iron Works, a shipbuilding firm near Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 miles north of San Francisco...
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    Vallejo. The following year in 1854, authorities founded the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which defined Vallejo's economy until the turn of the 21st century...
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    San Diego and Bremerton, Washington. The main naval base in the area was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, but silting in the area made it only suitable...
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    Benjamin Franklin Tilley (category People from Bristol County, Rhode Island)
    Tilley's next assignment came in March 1902 as a captain of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. He remained in this post for three years...
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    USS Mariano G. Vallejo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    1995. The contract to build Mariano G. Vallejo was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 8 August 1963 and her keel was laid...
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    Group) Navy Island, Ontario, Canada – French in the 18th century, then British 1763 to War of 1812 Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, California...
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    USS Grayback (SSG-574) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    grayback. Grayback′s keel was laid down on 1 July 1954 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. She was launched on 2 July 1957, sponsored...
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    USS Scamp (SSN-588) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Serranidae. Scamp′s keel was laid down on 23 January 1959 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. She was launched on 8 October 1960, sponsored...
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    USS Permit (SSN-594) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Carolina to Brazil. The contract to build her was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 January 1958, and her keel was laid down on 1 May 1959....
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  • Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock, Los Angeles, California Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California...
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    Charleston Naval Shipyard in Charleston, South Carolina built: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington built: Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo...
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    participate in the Aleutian Islands campaign, thus beginning her career as a naval gunfire support vessel during the island-hopping campaign against Japan...
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    William Cramp & Sons, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Bath Iron Works, some quite rapidly. The Clemson...
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    USS Drum (SSN-677) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Vessel Register)
    coast of North America. The contract to build Drum was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 15 March 1967, and her keel was laid...
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    USS Tang (SS-306) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    sunken submarine. The contract to build USS Tang was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 15 December 1941, and her keel was laid down on 15 January...
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    USS Snook (SSN-592) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    submarine entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, for extensive improvements of her hull. After leaving Mare Island on 23 August, Snook...
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  • Mare Island is a peninsula in the city of Vallejo, California. Mare Island may also refer to: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, a former naval base on California's...
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    HMAS Platypus, Naval Submarine Base Bangor (now part of Naval Base Kitsap), Mare Island Naval Shipyard (a nuclear-capable base), Ordnance Island in Bermuda...
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    USS Bonita (SSK-3) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, but later transferred to Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California, where her keel was laid down on 19 May...
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    USS Bass (SSK-2) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    She was originally named USS K-2 (SSK-2). Bass was laid down by Mare Island Naval Shipyard. She was launched on 2 May 1951 as K-2 sponsored by Mrs. John...
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    California in Solano County. The strait was formerly used by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard until its closure in 1995. The strait is the mouth of the Napa...
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    David Farragut (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    After the war, he oversaw the construction of the Mare Island Navy Yard (now Mare Island Naval Shipyard), which was the first U.S. Navy base established...
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    used as a freight spur into the 1980s. The freight service to Mare Island Naval Shipyard remained as a subsidiary of the Sacramento Northern Railway until...
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    George Washington-class submarine (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    (SSGN-600) at Electric Boat and Mare Island Naval Shipyard, respectively. Newport News Shipbuilding and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard built the Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601)...
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    USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    sailed to Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands, where she operated for 10 days before returning to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California for...
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    Benjamin Franklin-class submarine (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mariano G. Vallejo's sail is preserved at Mare Island, California, where she was built. The sail of Lewis and Clark is on display...
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