Despite its name, Mare Island in the northern part of the bay is a peninsula rather than an island.

StarTrek. com notes that Starfleet's ships are built on Mare Island near San Francisco.

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The Mare Island Naval Shipyard ( MINSY ) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean.

The Napa River goes through the Mare Island Strait and separates the peninsula shipyard ( Mare Island, California ) from the main portion of the city of Vallejo.

In 1861, the longest lived of the clipper ships, Syren, was brought to Mare Island Navy Yard for $ 15, 000 of repairs.

ironclad | Monitor USS Camanche ( 1864 ) | Camanche at Mare Island, 1866.

Some of the support, logistics and munition requirements for the Spanish-American War were filled by Mare Island.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in 1911.

Mare Island was selected by the Navy for construction of the only US West Coast-built battleship, the, launched in 1919.

the Marine Detachment of Mare Island won the 1918 Tournament East-West football game ( this bowl game series was later renamed the Rose Bowl Game ), defeating the US Army team fielded by Camp Lewis by a score of 19-7.

The AJC Band, from Hamilton Air Force Base | Hamilton Field, plays at a war bond rally held at Mare Island on June 26, 1945.

Mare Island even received Royal Navy cruisers and destroyers and four Soviet Navy subs for service.

More than 300 landing craft were built at Mare Island.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard constructed at least eighty-nine sea-going vessels.

With the prelude to, and the outbreak of World War II, the Mare Island Naval Shipyard specialized in submarines, and other than a few submarine tenders, no more surface ships were built there.

In 1955, Mare Island was awarded the contract to build, the first nuclear submarine laid down at a Pacific base.

In 1972, the Navy officially ceased building new nuclear submarines at Mare Island, though overhaul of existing vessels continued.

The was decommissioned at Mare Island in 1980, then rigged for towing back to Groton, Connecticut to serve as a museum of naval history.

Five of the seven top-scoring United States submarines of World War II were built at Mare Island.

Aerial photo of southern Mare Island and the shipyard facility

Those include Kōdō Nippon ( The Imperial Way of Japan ) ( 1938 ), Kaigun Bakugeki-tai ( Naval Bomber Squadron ) ( 1940 ), The Burning Sky ( Moyuru ōzora ) ( 1940 ), Hawai Mare oki kaisen ( The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya ) ( 1942 ), Decisive Battle in the Skies ( Kessen-no Ōzara-e ) ( 1943 ) and Kato hayabusa sento-tai ( 1944 ).

The US Navy Brown Water Riverine Forces inactivated after the Vietnam War, maintaining only the US Naval Reserve PBRs and auxiliary craft at Mare Island, until the 1996 base closure ; at which time the Reserve units moved to new facilities in Sacramento, California.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard expanded to over 5, 200 acres ( 21 km² ) in its service life and was responsible for construction of over 500 naval vessels and overhauling thousands of other vessels.

Entrance to The Mare Island Naval Shipyard, April, 2011

The Mare Island Naval Shipyard facility, April, 2011

A Long Line of Ships: Mare Island's Century of Naval Activity in California.

* 1941 Society of Naval Architects Bulletin, Harold W. Linnehan, writing as a visitor from Design section, Mare Island, California.

* National Park Service World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: Mare Island Naval Shipyard

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Residents were able to continue to find work in nearby towns of Crockett ( C & H Sugar ), Vallejo ( the Mare Island Naval Shipyard ), Hercules ( Hercules Powder Co .), and the aforementioned Union Oil Co. in Oleum.

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* Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, California, 1854 to 1996

The FBI determined that the letter was written shortly after a convoy of ships had arrived at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo.

The German saboteur Lothar Witzke, responsible for the March 1917 munitions explosion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the Bay Area, and possibly responsible for the July 1916 Black Tom explosion in New Jersey, was based in Mexico City.

For over a century, Mare Island was the Navy's Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

Mare Island Naval Base was deactivated during the 1995 cycle of US base closures, but the US Navy Reserves still have access to the water portions of the State Wildlife Area for any riverine warfare training being conducted from their new base in Sacramento, California.

In 1993 Congress approved the findings of the Base Realignment and Closure report, leading to the closure of Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

The San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard was a short-lived shipyard formed in 1965 as the combination of the San Francisco Naval Shipyard ( aka Hunters Point ) and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

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