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    The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY or MINS) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean and was in service 142 years from...
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    recommendations and Mare Island was purchased for use as a naval shipyard in July 1853 at a cost of $83,410. On September 16, 1854, Mare Island became the first...
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    Solano County, California, in the historic core of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. It is the first Naval chapel in the Pacific, the first interdenominational...
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    Naval Shipyard was a short-lived shipyard formed in 1965 with the combination of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard....
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    Mare Island Naval Shipyard Airfield was a post-World War 1 US Navy airfield that opened around 1922 and closed in 1937 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in...
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    San Diego and Bremerton, Washington. The main naval base in the area was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, but silting in the area made it only suitable...
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    honor of Gen. Vallejo's wife Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo. The Mare Island Naval Shipyard was founded in 1854, and defined Vallejo's economy until the turn...
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    Group) Navy Island, Ontario, Canada – French in the 18th century, then British 1763 to War of 1812 Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, California...
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    submarines, were built at the Crescent Shipyard and the Union Iron Works, a shipbuilding firm near Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 miles north of San Francisco...
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    USS Mariano G. Vallejo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    1995. The contract to build Mariano G. Vallejo was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 8 August 1963 and her keel was laid...
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