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5 unusual facts about Mare Island Naval Shipyard


211th Military Police Battalion

Under threat of a possible Japanese air attack, the 211th occupied hastily-built battery positions to provide 24-hour air defense for Mare Island Naval Shipyard and Hamilton Field.

Lancs Industries

Projects for Mare Island Naval Shipyard eventually led to the company’s expansion into fabricating plastic barriers, containments, and protective gear using radio-frequency (RF) heat sealing technology.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.

Mare Island's military and civilian workforce raised almost $76M in war bonds; enough to pay for every one of the submarines built at MINSY prior to VJ Day.

Mycena californiensis

The single collection was found growing on fallen oak leaves at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Solano County, California in January 1856.


George Livingston

Livingston earliest jobs included positions at a paper factory in Richmond and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.


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