Beneath the dry docks in Richmond, CA.
Kaiser once employed 90,000 men in its four shipyards in Richmond, CA. These yards were responsible for constructing 747 ships during the war.Of these shipyards, Kaiser Shipyard #3 is the only permanent shipyard that still remains today.
Inside a moldy, damp hotel room at the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, an Inn designed to house the officers, families and visitors to the island. In this particular room, the moldy mattress was hit with a beam of light from the window, causing the mattress to steam and the room to smell like a boiling pot of moldy water.
Commercial steamship, SS Mormaccove of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. She served in the commercial trade industry for almost 20 years (1961-1980) before being acquired by the Navy and converted for Naval use. At that time her name was changed to USNS Northern Light. She was used by the Navy for 5 years, then placed in the Mothball Fleet in RRF-30 status, meaning she could be ready for deployment in 30 days. In 2000, she was removed from Ready Reserve staus, handed over to MARAD and is now slated for dismantling.
These valves in "shaft alley" of USNS Northern Light, a commercial breakbulk steamship, controlled water flow into the propeller shaft to keep it cool.
"Breakbulk ships" were characterized by large open hatches and fitted with boom-and-winch gear or deck cranes and primarily used in ports. USNS Northern Light, originally known as SS Mormacbay, served in the commercial trade industry from 1961 until 1980, when she was acquired by the Navy and eventually moved to Suisun Bay.
