A pending $1.1 million federal funding plan would enable the Mare Island Museum to upgrade the old commandant’s mansion on the former Navy shipyard – providing an interim home now that its former, ...
A huge museum of other Mare Island and naval artifacts ranging from ship bells to historic photographs will open by mid-2002, Zadwick said. The USS Drum, launched in 1970 and retired 23 years later to ...
Mare Island Naval Shipyard history, going back 170 years to Sept. 16, 1854, when Capt. David Farragut arrived to build the Navy’s first West Coast base, will be featured at the upcoming Sept. 14-15 ...
The post-statehood history of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, dating from 1854 to 1996, is fairly straightforward and well-documented. But how the island just north of San Francisco got its name while in ...
Winter At Wonderland Tree Lighting Celebration, 5 p.m., Children's Wonderland, 360 Glenn St., Vallejo. Dec. 5: Annual Mare Island Light Night Holiday Tree Celebration, with VOENA Children's Choir, 5 p ...
While barnacles collect on the rusting hull of the nuclear powered submarine USS Drum, efforts are under way to return the 413th and last vessel ever built at Vallejo's Mare Island Naval Shipyard to ...