Photo #: NH 104594
MSTS Reserve Fleet, Everett, Washington
The MSTS Reserve Fleet Nest at the Navy Industrial Reserve Shipyard,
Everett, Washington, photographed on 25 June 1957 looking to
the west.
The ships, from bottom to top, are USNS General John Pope
(T-AP-110), General M. C. Meigs (T-AP-116), General
William Weigel (T-AP-119), General R. L. Howze (T-AP-134),
Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195), Marine Adder (T-AP-193),
and Marine Lynx (T-AP-194). They are in MSTS Ready Reserve
status. All were moved to the Maritime Administration reserve
fleets at Olympia and Astoria, Washington, in 1958.
During World War II this site was occupied by the Everett Pacific
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, which built net laying ships
(AN, originally YN), non-self propelled barracks ships (APL),
self-propelled covered lighters (YF), and little harbor tugs
(YTL). Larger ships were repaired at the piers where the MSTS
ships were later moored.
Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station, Whidbey
Island, Washington.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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