Naval base San Diego - wikipedia Naval base San Diego This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2010 ) Naval Base San Diego San Diego, California, U.S. Naval Base San Diego logo Type Military base Site information Owner United States of America Controlled by United States Navy Site history In use 1922 -- present Garrison information Current commander CAPT Roy Love, USN 2008 aerial view of Naval Base San Diego. 1923 military map of San Diego Bay, depicting anchorages and moorings, various military facilities, Coronado, National City, and the surrounding area. Naval Base San Diego, which locals refer to as 32nd Street Naval Station, is the second largest Surface Ship base of the United States Navy and is located in San Diego, California. Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the Pacific Fleet, consisting of over 50 ships and over 190 tenant commands. The base is composed of 13 piers stretched over 977 acres ( 3.95 km ) of land and 326 acres ( 1.32 km ) of water. The total on base population is over 24,000 military personnel and over 10,000 civilians. Contents 1 History 2 Operations 3 Homeported ships 4 In fiction and literature 5 Notes 6 External links History The 977 acres ( 3.95 km ) of the land on which the Naval Base sits today was occupied in 1918 by a coalition of concrete ship building firms known as the Emergency Fleet Corporation, under the single company name Pacific Marine Construction. But Pacific Marine began to lose profits with the conclusion of World War I, and negotiated a return of the land back to the City of San Diego. Meanwhile, the Navy was exploring the small tract of land to establish a west coast ship repair facility and moved on the opportunity to acquire the land. By 1920, the Navy and the Emergency Fleet Corporation had negotiated the transfer of land improvements to the United States Navy. Still, three obstacles stood in the way of a Navy repair facility : the coalition company, Schofield Engineering Co., still retained an option to purchase the existing plant, a local shipping board had not granted permission for more construction, and finally, Congress had not yet passed an appropriations bill to authorize funds to begin work. Nevertheless, by June 1920, Congress passed the appropriations bill - $750,000 of which was earmarked for the navy repair base. With the money appropriated, Schofield still delayed in releasing their option on the land. At the time, Admiral Roger Welles, then Commandant of the 11th Naval District, had grown weary of Schofield 's delaying tactics and threatened to pull stakes and establish a repair base in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. His threats worked. On 21 February 1921, Welles assumed formal custody of the property. In May 1921, Commander H.N. Jensen, Commanding Officer of the repair tender USS Prairie, was directed to moor at the site to establish repair operations. On 23 February 1922, acting Secretary of the Navy, Teddy Roosevelt Jr. issued General Order 78 establishing the facility as the U.S. Destroyer Base, San Diego. The base has been officially renamed almost half - a-dozen times during its lifetime. During its first years in commission, the base grew rapidly as repair facilities expanded, torpedo and radio schools were established and more shops were constructed. During 1924, the base decommissioned 77 destroyers and commissioned seven. By 1937, the Destroyer Base had added two additional tracts of land and by then its 29 buildings and other improvements amounted to a cost of more than $3.2 million. The base then expanded heavily during World War II and by 1942, the Navy had added expanded fleet training schools, and an amphibious force training unit. By the following year, it was determined the scope of operations exceeded the base 's basic function as a Destroyer Base. On 7 October 1943, the base was re-designated the U.S. Repair Base, San Diego, a title it retained throughout World War II. Between 1943 and 1945 the newly named base performed conversion, overhaul, maintenance and battle damage repair to more than 5,117 ships. Central to this maintenance were the Navy 's construction and delivery of 155 new floating dry docks deployed to various bases, including three 3,000 - ton, three 1,000 - ton and one 900 - ton floating docks remaining at the San Diego Repair Base. The floating dry docks became the central repair and training facilities on the base which were crucial to the World War II mission. After World War II, base operations were again reorganized, with a post-war mission to provide logistical support ( including repair and dry - docking ) to ships of the active fleet. On 15 September 1946, the Secretary of the Navy re-designated the repair base Naval Station, San Diego. By the end of 1946 the base had grown to 294 buildings with floor space square footage of more than 6,900,000 square feet ( 640,000 m ), berthing facilities included five piers of more than 18,000 feet ( 5,500 m ) of berthing space. Land then totaled more than 921 acres ( 373 ha ) and 16 miles ( 26 km ) of roads. Barracks could accommodate 380 officers and 18,000 enlisted men. More than 3,500 sailors could be fed in the galley at a single sitting on the base. Later, in the 1990s, the Naval Station became the principal homeport of the then U.S. Pacific Fleet when the Long Beach Naval Shipyard was closed for the final time on 30 September 1994. Naval Station San Diego was realigned under Commander, Navy Region Southwest and became one in a triad of metropolitan Navy bases that now make up the bulk of the metro area Navy 's presence. With that change, the base became the hub of all Navy port operations for the Region, assumed logistical responsibility for both Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Region headquarters and was re-designated Naval Base San Diego. Because of its geographic location, and the positioning of its main entrance, the Naval Base has been known as the 32nd Street Naval Station not only by the local community, but also by sailors and veterans around the world. Operations Homecoming for USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ) after a six - and - a-half - month deployment, 2002. Naval Base San Diego is home port to approximately 54 ships, including 46 U.S. Navy ships, two Littoral Combat Ships, two U.S. Coast Guard cutters, and eight ships of the Military Sealift Command, as well as research and auxiliary vessels. Ashore, the base has approximately 120 separate tenant commands and other Navy support facilities, each having specific and specialized fleet support missions. The base is a workplace for approximately 26,000 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Additionally, the base has rooms to house more than 4,000 men and women in modern apartment - like barracks, including newer state - of - the - art residential towers. Support services on base includes less direct and indirect fleet support : waterfront operations, force protection ( security ), supply, Navy Exchange and Commissary shopping centers, bachelor quarters, food services, public affairs, administration, transient personnel administration, fiscal management, equal employment opportunity, civil engineering, family services, recreation on the base and near various military family housing areas, medical and dental care, religious services, transportation, utilities, legal support, counseling and assistance, facility maintenance, fire protection, educational services, and child care for more than 300 children daily at the base Child Development Center. The base has a plant value of $2.1 billion. Naval Base San Diego is also home to the greatest intramural sports program in the Navy. Homeported ships ( As of December 2017 ) Cruisers ( 8 ) Destroyers ( 15 ) Amphibious ( 14 ) USS Bunker Hill ( CG - 52 ) USS Mobile Bay ( CG - 53 ) USS Lake Champlain ( CG - 57 ) USS Princeton ( CG - 59 ) USS Cowpens ( CG - 63 ) USS Chosin ( CG - 65 ) USS Lake Erie ( CG - 70 ) USS Cape St. George ( CG - 71 ) USS Russell ( DDG - 59 ) USS Decatur ( DDG - 73 ) USS Higgins ( DDG - 76 ) USS Howard ( DDG - 83 ) USS Pinckney ( DDG - 91 ) USS Sterett ( DDG - 104 ) USS Dewey ( DDG - 105 ) USS Stockdale ( DDG - 106 ) USS Wayne E. Meyer ( DDG - 108 ) USS William P. Lawrence ( DDG - 110 ) USS Spruance ( DDG - 111 ) USS John Finn ( DDG - 113 ) USS Rafael Peralta ( DDG - 115 ) USS Zumwalt ( DDG - 1000 ) USS Boxer ( LHD - 4 ) USS Essex ( LHD - 2 ) USS America ( LHA - 6 ) USS Makin Island ( LHD - 8 ) USS New Orleans ( LPD - 18 ) USS San Diego ( LPD - 22 ) USS Anchorage ( LPD - 23 ) USS Somerset ( LPD - 25 ) USS John P. Murtha ( LPD - 26 ) USS Portland ( LPD - 27 ) USS Comstock ( LSD - 45 ) USS Rushmore ( LSD - 47 ) USS Harpers Ferry ( LSD - 49 ) USS Pearl Harbor ( LSD - 52 ) Littoral Combat Ship ( 8 ) Mine Counter Measures ( 3 ) Support Ships ( 5 ) USS Freedom ( LCS - 1 ) USS Independence ( LCS - 2 ) USS Fort Worth ( LCS - 3 ) USS Coronado ( LCS - 4 ) USS Jackson ( LCS - 6 ) USS Montgomery ( LCS - 8 ) USS Gabrielle Giffords ( LCS - 10 ) USS Omaha ( LCS - 12 ) USS Champion ( MCM - 4 ) USS Pioneer ( MCM - 9 ) USS Ardent ( MCM - 12 ) USNS Bob Hope ( T - AKR - 300 ) USNS Mercy ( T - AH - 19 ) USNS Henry J. Kaiser ( T - AO - 187 ) USNS Yukon ( T - AO - 202 ) SS Curtiss ( T - AVB - 4 ) Carriers ( 2 ) USS Carl Vinson ( CVN - 70 ) USS Theodore Roosevelt ( CVN - 71 ) USS Boxer ( LHD - 4 ), San Diego The guided - missile cruiser USS Cape St. George ( CG - 71 ) sits pier - side, ready for the 2007 holiday ship decoration contest. The guided - missile frigate USS Gary ( FFG 51 ) transits San Diego Bay, 2009. In fiction and literature Naval Base San Diego is the setting for the 2005 naval thriller, Treason, by Don Brown. Notes Jump up ^ La Tourette, Robert, LT USN ( June 1968 ). `` The San Diego Naval Complex ''. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) ^ Jump up to : Linder, Bruce ( 2001 ). San Diego 's Navy. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press. pp. 132 -- 133. ISBN 1 - 55750 - 531 - 4. Jump up ^ Google Books reference to 32nd Street Naval Station in novel Treason External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Base San Diego. NAVBASE SD Official Website NB San Diego Installation Overview at NavyUSA.org Naval Base San Diego on navy.mil DoD Lodging Worldwide Coordinates : 32 ° 40 ′ 53.60 '' N 117 ° 07 ′ 19.61 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 32.6815556 ° N 117.1221139 ° W ﻿ / 32.6815556 ; - 117.1221139 Operational military installations of California Army Fort Fort Irwin Fort Hunter Liggett Airfield Bicycle Lake Fresno Los Alamitos Heliport O'Sullivan Roberts Range Camp Parks Camp San Luis Obispo Logistics Sierra Army Depot School Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Marines Air Station Miramar Pendleton Bases MCRD San Diego Camp Pendleton Twentynine Palms Range Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Mountain Warfare Training Center Edson Range Logistics Barstow Navy Depot Broadway Complex Seal Beach Military Sealift Command Long Beach Outlying landing field Imperial Beach San Clemente Island San Nicolas Island Base Coronado Point Loma San Diego Ventura County ( composed of NAS Point Mugu, NCBC Port Hueneme ) Air Station Lemoore North Island El Centro Range China Lake Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range School Naval Postgraduate School Air Force Air base Beale Edwards Los Angeles March Travis Vandenberg Range R - 2508 Complex National Guard Army Los Alamitos Camp Roberts Camp San Luis Obispo Air Channel Islands Fresno Moffett Field School California Military Academy Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay Los Angeles Sacramento San Francisco San Diego Station Coast Guard Island Golden Gate Training Center Training Center Petaluma Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Base_San_Diego&oldid=851521144 '' Categories : United States Navy bases Military facilities in San Diego County, California Military in San Diego National City, California Economy of San Diego Military facilities in California 1922 establishments in California Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list Articles needing additional references from October 2010 All articles needing additional references All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2011 Coordinates on Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français Italiano 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 22 July 2018, at 21 : 48 ( UTC ). 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