Former Site of the Astoria Reserve Fleet

 navy, place with historical importance, historical layer / disappeared object, military reserve force

Following the Second World War, the US Navy built a storage yard here for surplus cargo vessels not needed in active service with the peacetime US Navy. Formally beginning operations in 1947, Astoria Reserve Fleet eventually had over 500 vessels moored in it during it's peak in the 1950s. Ships here were maintained in a condition to allow rapid activation for a return to service, which several saw during the Korean War.

When the US Navy began to consolidate its West Coast Reserve Fleets to Suisun Bay in California in the 1960s and 1970s, the ships of the Astoria Reserve Fleet began to be towed away in groups of two, destined for Suisun Bay, the scrapyard or to be used as targets. The Astoria Reserve Fleet facility officially ceased operations in 1963.