Great Images of the Ghost Fleet

[Feuer Frei!]

If you want to see something really cool, look at this collection of images (http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/) from a team that made its onto the U.S. Maritime Administration’s reserve fleet in Suisun Bay California.
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Above is a shot of Lockheed’s Sea Shadow stealth demonstrator ship inside the dry dock barge originally built for the super secret effort to raise the Soviet submarine K-129. (Imagine breaking into the barge and coming across that?) Below are a few of the cooler shots including several of the battleship U.S.S. Iowa.
For decades after World War II, the Suisun Bay fleet held hundreds of ships but that has dwindled to a few dozen today. The Maritime Administration maintains two other such fleets in Beaumont, TX, and James River,VA. And don’t forget the U.S. Navy’s own reserve fleets in Philly and Puget Sound, WA.

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SOURCE (http://defensetech.org/2011/06/09/great-images-of-the-ghost-fleet/#more-13237)

Don't forget to check out the link at top of post for some really cool pics!

[Schroeder]

Interesting.:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

Nice adventure all be hazardous and illegal! :doh: The ships are in some serious disrepair.

[Jimbuna]

Good job we hung on to HMS Belfast :O:

[Stealhead]

I like the photographers site you can find other pictures he has taken from different industrial sites in the US. I always find it odd how many Americans will laugh about photos of run down stuff in Russia and other ex-Soviet Bloc sites yet they must drive down the road with blinders on because you can see the same thing here in the US empty factories the inside often having been sent to China and the workers SOL.