USS Kawishiwi, 1950s-era oil carrier, to be towed to Mare Island Thursday An oiler built to refuel an entire task force without any help will leave the Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay on Thursday en route Mare Island Dry Docks, Vallejo, in preparation for towing to Texas, where it will be broken apart and recycled. The […]
Shoshone, tanker ship, departs fleet
The USNS Shoshone, a Maumee-class product tanker, is the next obsolete ship to leave the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet for its final trip to a Texas recycling company. The ship, named for the Shoshone River in Wyoming, was towed from Suisun Bay on Wednesday for a dry-dock at BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair, where […]