I spent some time on The Jeremiah Obrien after they took it out from the ready reserve fleet in Suisun bay to San Francisco.
It is now totally restored even the guns work. we used the sunday newspaper as the shell it was quiet fun. the ship even made a trip to Normandy to celebrate as I recall D day.
Richmond California was a kaiser steel yard as well as Sausalito and they worked 24 7
The Rosey the riveter Muesum is now located there, and though longer in use as graving docks the docks still exist.
if you ever get the opportunity to go to San Francisco and are interested in WW2 I would recommend it. They take it out once a year for fleet week and you can go aboard for the trip, they bless the fleet from her. the triple expansion engine is quite impressive and was used in the filming of the titanic.
They also have a WW2 Sub Marine along side the dock.
careful stepping over the homeless and don’t leave anything in the rental car
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