The Mare Island Historic Park Foundation is working wo establish a pernmanent home for the tower like dorsal structure, or sail, of the USS Mariano G. Vallejo. They would like to place the sail in historic Alden Park and the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo. The park is part of Mare Island's National Historic District.
The proposed location for the sail is near a marble monument to, among others, military commandere and politician Marinao G. Vallejo, for whom the submarine was named. Her keel was laid down on July 1, 1964; she was lunched on October 23, 1965 and commissioned on December 16, 1966. She served until March 9, 1995, when she was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
Visit the "Save the Sail" website and read more about the efforts to save this part of Naval history. http://www.saveoursail.com/. They need to raise $75,000. share this with any submariners or former Mare Island workers who happen to know.
Even those of us who didn't serve on the submarines were touched by Mare Island. For three months in early 1968 the USS Sanctuary (AH17) underwent last minute work at the Mare Island Shipyard before deploying to Vietnam.
Thank you to Healdsburg American Legion Family members Bettie Crandall (Member of Post 111 and president of Unit 111) and Mary Southall, Community Editor of the Scope Newspapers in Marin County and a former president of Unit 111, for sharing this story with me.
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