The "Mothball Fleet" is about a mile off the coast of Suisan Bay, a body of water Northeast of San Francisco near the town of Benicia. Amy Heiden Many of the ships were former military vessels.

The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) is often deemed part of the mothball fleet, and it boasted 2,077 vessels in 1950. These numbers fell to 274 by 2003 and plummeted again to 91 by 2021.

The National Defense Reserve Fleet program started in 1946 at the end of World War II. At the time the Navy had a huge surplus of vessels from the war, and Suisun Bay became one of eight places ...

As of now, there are no other ships that are scheduled to join Bremerton's mothball fleet, but that will most likely change. The Navy annually reviews the ships in its inventory and decides when ...

BREMERTON — The shoreline of Sinclair Inlet near Naval Yard Highway, where the Navy berths their inactivated "mothball" fleet, has become more crowded as three decommissioned Ticonderoga class ...

And after World War II, the Navy had so many surplus ships that brand new cruisers and destroyers made their first voyage straight to the mothball fleet, where ships are kept in storage, said ...

The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) is often deemed part of the mothball fleet, and it boasted 2,077 vessels in 1950. These numbers fell to 274 by 2003 and plummeted again to 91 by 2021.