Vallejo Times Herald

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Fed funds flow to Mare Island Museum

A pending $1.1 million federal funding plan would enable the Mare Island Museum to upgrade the old commandant’s mansion on the former Navy shipyard – providing an interim home now that its former, ...
The Reporter

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: A special look at Mare Island’s unique history

Mare Island Naval Shipyard history, going back 170 years to Sept. 16, 1854, when Capt. David Farragut arrived to build the Navy’s first West Coast base, will be featured at the upcoming Sept. 14-15 ...
Napa Valley Register

Mare Island museum to feature naval history

While barnacles collect on the rusting hull of the nuclear powered submarine USS Drum, efforts are under way to return the 413th and last vessel ever built at Vallejo's Mare Island Naval Shipyard to ...
The Reporter

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Many stories about Mare Island’s name

The post-statehood history of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, dating from 1854 to 1996, is fairly straightforward and well-documented. But how the island just north of San Francisco got its name while in ...