The Navy’s Disappearing Fleet When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. Navy was the most powerful maritime force in his ...

BENICIA, Calif. -- From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that ...

Inspired by his father, a World War II pilot, Doug Lawson joined the Navy Reserve during the Vietnam War era and was sent ...

When the Korean War broke out, the last thing the U.S. public worried about was a dearth of merchant ships. After all, the U.S. had a mothball fleet of 2,154 World War II cargo vessels ready for ...

The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has signed contracts to clean and recycle three World War II-era ships from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, including the last two Victory ...

BENICIA — From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is ...

In February 2008, when I held a hearing on the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia City Hall, I was stunned when representatives from the U.S. Maritime Administration refused to even attend the ...

If you’ve driven on I-680, across the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, you’ve probably seen them. Clusters of old military ships are anchored side by side in Suisun Bay. Most of them are decades old. Their ...