Pacific Reserve Fleet, Alameda

Pacific Reserve Fleet, Alameda was a part of the United States Navy reserve fleets, also called a mothball fleet, that was used to store the many surplus ships after World War II. The Pacific Reserve Fleet, Alameda was part of the former Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California, in the San Francisco Bay. Some ships in the fleet were reactivated for the Korean War and Vietnam War.[1][2][3]

Pacific Reserve Fleet, Alameda
Ready Reserve Fleet Alameda
Alameda, California, United States
Ready Reserve Force Alameda California, at former Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Alameda
Coordinates37°46′21.15″N 122°18′10.23″W
TypeReserve Fleet
Site information
Owner United States
Operator United States Navy
Site history
Built1946 (1946)
In useAtlantic Reserve Fleet, Alameda (1946-1976)
Ready Reserve Fleet (1976-)
USS Hornet docked in former Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Alameda

The site today is the USS Hornet Museum, home of the USS Hornet that opened in 1998 and, from 1976, home of the Ready Reserve Fleet, of the Ready Reserve Force, managed by United States Maritime Administration (MARAD).[4][5][6]


Ready Reserve Fleet Alameda ships

United States Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Fleet Alameda ships:

See also


References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Hornet Museum.
  1. Ready Reserve Force (RRF)
  2. youtube.com, The Mothball Fleet
  3. youtube.com The USN Mothball Fleet - Storing up for a rainy day
  4. recordnet.com USS Hornet Museum
  5. Farewell, MARAD?, August 20, 2020, Sun Staff Reports
  6. usni.org, U.S. Sealift Fleet—Rusty Tin Cans, By K. Denise Rucker Krepp, February 202
  • Official page USS Hornet Museum and Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation
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