Mothball Fleet Traditional Geocache
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In an idustrial area. Park on street walk a few feet. No Parking 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The ghostly congregation of ships known as the Mothball Fleet floats silently on Suisun Bay. Huddled together bow to stern, they wait for a call to duty that may never come. The fleet may look like just a lonely, floating junkyard, but hidden among the discards are some nautical treasures and old heroes. One is the Navy tugboat Hoga, which during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 rescued dozens of sailors, fought onboard ship fires, and pulled the battleship Nevada to safety. The Golden Bear, a 1939 passenger liner that later became a training ship for sailors, and the World War II merchant ship Red Oak Victory also dwell in the fleet.
(credit article to Pat Walsh Chronicle Writer 1997)
Bring binoculars for the ships.
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