It's History

Why the Navy Abandoned Hundreds of Ships in California (8x58)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 12, 2022

An ever-shrinking collection of the US Navy’s most storied ships lies in a bay near San Francisco. This National Defense Reserve Fleet held war heroes, masters of espionage, and behind-the-scenes vessels that the Navy could not function without. Some met a cruel fate in a scrapyard, others found a grandiose museum as their new home, but all were influential in the organization that put them out to pasture.