Satellite photos of US Navy reserve fleet on Google Maps

By Andrew Hough Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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The National Defense Reserve Fleet is a organisation of ships that are used for "national counterclaim and inhabitant emergency" crises.

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More than 170 vessels, managed by the Department of Transportations Maritime Administration, are located at James River, Virginia, Beaumont, Texas and Suisun Bay, California.

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Its ships are personal as possibly ready "reserve force ships" (RRF), that can be put behind in to use in between 10 and 120 days or "non-retention vessels", that are past their workable hold up and have been nominated for disposal.

It is an additional e.g. of how the US governments ordering of troops machinery.

On Monday, a fantastic array of new high-resolution Google Earth heavenly body images were expelled of the worlds majority costly troops cemetery, a �22.6 billion centre dubbed "The Boneyard".

The 2,600 hactare facility, strictly well known Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, is home to thousands of old-fashioned aeroplanes and helicopters mothballed by the United States Air Force and alternative associated forces.

Established underneath Section eleven of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, NDRF vessels have upheld puncture shipping mandate in 7 wars and crises, according to is central website.

They were used by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to await service efforts during Hurricane Katrina.

Officials contend that of the 93 non-retention vessels in the fleet, 70 are in the ordering process, or are ready for ordering whilst a serve twenty-three are being rebuilt for disposal.

Last month the US supervision voiced that a cleanup operation of Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet had been expanded.

A MARAD orator pronounced that when a boat becomes obsolete, the dialect organised for their ordering in an "environmentally supportive manner".

"When a boat is recycled, the recycler mostly salvages and sells steel and alternative materials, and disposes of alternative materials in suitability with state and sovereign law," he added.