Collection Guide:
UG 22-01
1910-1920s: USAT Lawton in Mare Island channel; unidentified ships in the center of Mare Island channel; original wooden dry dock at Mare Island; close-up views ship mast and boom; USS Relief; USS Farragut (TB-11) and USS Solace in the channel
UG 22-02
1910-1920s: unidentified ships in channel; Russian ship “Lena” along seawall; SS Golden Gate along berth 10 in front of building #165; ships along the dock; ship launching
UG 22-03
1910-1920s: unidentified ships berthed alongside seawall; USS Mohican and SS Caroline berthed at Mare Island; unidentified ships in channel; USS Solace and antenna mast; USS Unadilla; USS Wheeling (PG-14) along seawall; USS Alert (AS-4) along seawall; locomotive “Tamalpais”, part of the Department of Yards and Docks; dredger at dry dock
UG 22-04
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: 45 (equipment department, sail loft), 65 (office of Commodore Phillips, flag loft, 196 (gate house); station personnel; and railroad track
UG 22-05
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: 65 and 72 (with coal barge in front); coaling activities in the equipment department and mechanical equipment
UG 22-06
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: 101 (equipment department, boiler room, and electrical shop – including interiors), and 55; stages of construction of building 101, including excavation (101 was the first steel frame building on Mare Island); personnel of equipment department electrical shop, including George E. Hanscom, master electrician
UG 22-07
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: 47, 65 and 101 (boiler room and electric shop); main generator in building 101, and stages of construction of building 65
UG 22-08
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: 69 (south entrance), 115, 71, and 37; anchor storage; coaling equipment and activities
UG 22-09
1900-1910: various yard buildings, including: St. Peter’s Chapel (exterior, interior, and close up of plaques, windows, and signs); exterior of gatehouse (with keel laying in front)
UG 22-10
1900-1910: Ship building (with shop 17 in the background); keel laying for coal barge; coal collier unloading at Mare Island; USS Buffalo at Mare Island; communication equipment and mechanical systems - telegraph receiving set, transformer, portable wireless set, electronic detectors, spark gap etc.; and experimental kite with antenna
UG 22-11
1900-1910: communication equipment and mechanical systems –wireless transmitter, Telefunken primary and secondary variometers, variable receiver condenser, induction mount, wireless valve, telephone, and Mt. Tamalpais (Marin County) showing commercial towers being erected
UG 22-12
1930s-1950s: Various communication equipment and devices used at Mare Island Navy Yard and USN Radio Control Station, San Francisco, including: radio control room, emergency power unit, transmitter roof outlets, wire closet, and transmitter
