United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka or Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka is a United States Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan. Its mission is to maintain and operate base facilities for the logistic, recreational, administrative support and service of the U.S. Naval Forces Japan, Seventh Fleet and other operating forces assigned in the Western Pacific. CFAY is the largest strategically important U.S. naval installation in the western Pacific.
Construction of the Yokosuka arsenal c.1870.
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) at Yokosuka, circa 1952
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) docks at the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan.
The U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka, with USS George Washington (CVN-73)
Léonce Verny
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François Léonce Verny, was a French officer and naval engineer who directed the construction of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.
The Verny drydock in Yokosuka, still used today by the US Fleet Activities Yokosuka.
Kannonzaki Lighthouse (Feb 1869)