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ship yard??

posted 19 years ago by bozzy17
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could somebody tell me if that ship yard where all the de-commisioned ships were in the film actually exists? if so where is it and whats the name of it??

[–] br553 19 years ago

The trivia section says that is is real and it is located at Benicia, California

[–] shakenama 19 years ago

Here you can check out an actual Sat picture of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California as part of the NDRF program. (Also known as the "Ghost Fleet") :-)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Benicia,+CA&ll=38.073906,-122.094498&spn=0.061236,0.164383&t=h&hl=en

[–] scbadboy82 19 years ago

WOW,, thats pretty cool. Thats alot ships!!!

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[–] Ghislaine-Laure 19 years ago

Also also known as "The Mothball Fleet".

[–] CGSailor 18 years ago

MARAD Depot at Suisan Bay. Benicia , CA.

those ships behind the Stingray are the ships of the Leahy and Belknap class. All of them were decommed in '93-'94
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[–] budt3 17 years ago

The sub is a real sub, restored and used as a museum piece.

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[–] amazon423 17 years ago

For those who are geographically challenged Suisun Bay is the the northeastern by eastern part of San Francisco Bay. There is also a mothball fleet up at Bremerton, WA and also I heard that there is one on the east coast also.

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[–] EastCoastMariner 17 years ago

They are slowly dumping most of the mothballed cargo ships. Nowadays its all about speed and placement, so the Pre-Positioned Fleet and the LMSR vessels can easily carry three or four times as much with double the speed of the stick ships and rust buckets they have in that yard.

It's a shame too, cause they were some beautiful old merchant ships.