Mission Santa Ynez, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA
Summary
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Significance: The Mission Santa Ynez is significant as the last surviving example of the thirty-one Mission tankers built by The Marinship Corporation. The design was an adaptation of the T2-SE-A1 and boasted a larger power plant 10,000 horsepower (hp) versus 6,000 hp. Ships in this class served in the U.S. Navy, the Naval Transportation Service, and the Military Sealift Transportation Service (now Military Sealift Command).
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1435
Survey number: HAER CA-337
Building/structure dates: 1943-1943 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Marinship Corporation
U.S. Maritime Commission
U.S. Maritime Administration
U.S. Navy
Military Sealift Transportation Service
Military Sealift Command
W.A. Bechtel Company
Davies, Ralph K
General Electric
Babcock & Wilcox
Ingersoll-Rand
Pacific Tankers, Inc.
Tanker Industries
Savannah Machine and Foundry Company
Croteau, Todd, project manager
US Maritime Administration, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
U.S. Maritime Administration, sponsor
Croteau, Todd, program coordinator
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Koehler, Erhard, sponsor
Location
benicia, 38.04937, -122.15858
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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