Marina (Astoria, Oregon)
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marina, navy, place with historical importance, military reserve force
Former Site of the Astoria Reserve Fleet - Mott Basin Section
Following the Second World War, the US Navy built this pier complex a storage yard for surplus warships no longer in active service with the peacetime US Navy. Formally beginning to accept vessels in 1947, the Mott Basin piers eventually held over 200 vessels during it's peak in the 1950s. Mainly consisting of Amphibious Ships, Destroyers and Fleet Tugboats, the ships here were maintained in a condition to allow rapid activation for a return to service, which several saw during the Korean War. The pier facilities also served as maintenance points for the ships stored at moorings in the Astoria Reserve Fleet.
When the US Navy began to consolidate its West Coast Reserve Fleets to Suisun Bay in California in the 1960s and 1970s, the warships held at Mott Basin were towed away to Suisun Bay or to Bremerton Navy Yard. The Astoria Reserve Fleet facility officially ceased operations in 1963.
Following the Second World War, the US Navy built this pier complex a storage yard for surplus warships no longer in active service with the peacetime US Navy. Formally beginning to accept vessels in 1947, the Mott Basin piers eventually held over 200 vessels during it's peak in the 1950s. Mainly consisting of Amphibious Ships, Destroyers and Fleet Tugboats, the ships here were maintained in a condition to allow rapid activation for a return to service, which several saw during the Korean War. The pier facilities also served as maintenance points for the ships stored at moorings in the Astoria Reserve Fleet.
When the US Navy began to consolidate its West Coast Reserve Fleets to Suisun Bay in California in the 1960s and 1970s, the warships held at Mott Basin were towed away to Suisun Bay or to Bremerton Navy Yard. The Astoria Reserve Fleet facility officially ceased operations in 1963.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 46°11'58"N 123°45'40"W
- Former Site of the Astoria Reserve Fleet 0.8 km
- Former Site of the Olympia Reserve Fleet 121 km
- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 174 km
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor 191 km
- Naval Station Everett 231 km
- Naval Outlying Field (NOLF) Coupeville 239 km
- Naval Air Station (NAS), Whidbey Island Seaplane Base 247 km
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) Ault Field 254 km
- Omega Facility NML 1947 km
- Naval Radio Transmitter Facility, Clam Lake 2502 km
- Columbia Delta 7.6 km
- Youngs Bay 9 km
- Desdemona Sands 10 km
- Camp Rilea Armed Forces Training Facility 16 km
- Fort Stevens State Park 17 km
- Naselle, Washington 18 km
- Columbia River Bar 23 km
- Long Island 32 km
- Willapa National Wildlife Refuge 33 km
- Ocean Park, Washington 39 km
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