If you’ve driven on I-680, across the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, you’ve probably seen them. Clusters of old military ships are anchored side by side in Suisun Bay. Most of them are decades old. Their ...

BENICIA, Calif. -- From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that ...

BREMERTON — The shoreline of Sinclair Inlet near Naval Yard Highway, where the Navy berths their inactivated "mothball" fleet, has become more crowded as three decommissioned Ticonderoga class ...

In February 2008, when I held a hearing on the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia City Hall, I was stunned when representatives from the U.S. Maritime Administration refused to even attend the ...

More than 200 people work in Southeast Texas maintaining a reserve fleet of ships so they're ready to go within five days in the event they are needed. The U.S. Maritime Administration’s Western Gulf ...