The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the maintenance activity have changed several times, the basi
Mothballed ships in Suisun Bay, California (2010). The battleship USS Iowa at the right-side end of the group has since become a restored museum ship in San Pedro, Los Angeles.
View of the reserve fleet laid up at Naval Station San Diego, circa in the 1950s
Ships in the US Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay in 1972
Aerial view of the US Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay in 1995
South Boston Naval Annex
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The South Boston Naval Annex was a 167-acre United States Navy shipyard annex located in South Boston. An annex of Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, it was operational from 1920 to 1974, when it was cl
The Annex, circa 1958. In this image, South is on top.
Dockside crane on wide gauge tracks at Dry Dock Number 3