Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
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A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the U.S. Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register, while others have been stricken from that Register.
The ships that have been stricken from the NVR are disposed of by one of several means, including foreign military sale transfer, ship donation as a museum or memorial, domestic dismantling and recycling, artificial reefing, or use as a target vessel. Others are retention assets for possible future reactivation, which have been laid up for long-term preservation and are maintained with minimal maintenance (humidity control, corrosion control, flood/fire watch) should they need to be recalled to active duty.
There are NISMF's in Philadelphia, PA[1], Pearl Harbor, HI and Bremerton, WA, operated by the Naval Sea Systems Command Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Offices.
In addition, parts of Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard are designated for the storage of inactive nuclear powered vessels.
Inactive ship facilities in Suisun Bay, CA, James River, VA and Beaumont, TX are owned and operated by the Maritime Administration under the Department of Transportation.
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[edit] Vessels Moored at NISMFs
Following is a short list of vessels currently being stored at the facilities:
[edit] Philadelphia, PA
As of July 14, 2007:
- USNS Able (T-AGOS-20) - Inactive reserve
- USS Puget Sound (AD-38)
- USS Charleston (LKA-113) - Inactive reserve
- USS Mobile (LKA-115) - Inactive reserve
- USS El Paso (LKA-117) - Inactive reserve
- USS Trout (SS-566) - To be scrapped
- YO-260 - yard oiler
- USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) - Available for donation
- USS Yorktown (CG-48)
- USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51)
- USS Conolly (DD-979) - Available for donation
- USS O'Bannon (DD-987) - To be sold to Turkey
- USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968) - To be sunk
- USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) - Available for donation
- USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931) - Available for donation
- USS Edson (DD-946) - Available for donation
- USNS Mohawk (T-ATF-170) - Inactive reserve
- USS Canon (PG-90) - Available for donation
- Asheville Class Gunboat (Identity unknown)
- USNS Joshua Humphreys (T-AO-188) - Inactive reserve
- USS Boulder (LST-1190) - Inactive reserve
[edit] Portsmouth, VA
[edit] Bremerton, WA
- USS Ranger (CVA-61) - Available for donation
- USS Independence (CV-62) - To be sunk
- USS Constellation (CV-64) - To be sunk
- USS David R. Ray (DD-971)
[edit] Pearl Harbor, HI
- USS Fletcher (DD-992) - Awaiting sale to Pakistani Navy
- USS Acadia (AD-42)
- USNS Wyman (T-AGS-34)
- USS Durham (LKA-114) - Inactive reserve
- USS St. Louis (LKA-116) - Inactive reserve
- USS Fresno (LST-1182) - Inactive reserve
- USS Racine (LST-1191) - Inactive reserve