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44 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News high-speed aluminum ferries that are now built in the State of Washington. Tradi- tionally Bay Ship & Yacht has played an essential role in maintaining the historic ships at the Ntional Park’ Hyde Street

Pier in San Francisco.

Bay Ship & Yacht has a work force of about 250, with facilities that include 1,000 ft of waterfront dredged to 42-ft, two outfitting docks, a 390-ft floating drydock, a 1,200-ton/200-ft Syncrolift and transfer system for seven 200-ft ves- sels on land, and an array of diversified shops.

As for the ships in MARAD’S Reserve

Fleet, its facilities should be able to han- dle the cleaning of some of the smaller ships, although the yard has not partici- pated in solicitations up to this point.

MARAD Settles Litigation on

Reserve Fleet

In the years following World War II, the

US Maritime Administration (MARAD) acquired ships for a “Ready Reserve

Fleet” that would be available for na- tional emergencies, and the Korean War proved to be such an emergency. But,

MARAD continued to acquire more and more ships for its fleets on the East

Coast, the Gulf Coast, and the Pacific

Coast where scores of ships remain an- chored in Suisun Bay, a part of San Fran- cisco Bay.

As the years passed, it became obvious that many of the old ships were less and less capable of playing any role other than fodder for ship-scrapping yards.

But, with a limited budget, MARAD ini- tially began disposing of its ships from its

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MARAD’s Reserve Fleet ship from

World War II, the Rider Victory, enter- ing BAE’s San Francisco Drydock for hull cleaning prior to being towed to

Texas for scrapping. San Francisco

Bay Bridge in background. (Photo cour tesy BAE)