Naval Base San Diego

The 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 , berthing facilities included five piers of more than of berthing space. Land then totaled more than and 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 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. ==Operations==

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 150 separate tenant commands and other Navy support facilities, An explosion and fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) on July 12, 2020, resulted in the eventual decommissioning and scrapping of the ship. ==Homeported ships==

(As of August 2025) Amphibious Assault Ships • • • • • • • • • • • • • Cruisers • • • • Destroyers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Littoral Combat Ships • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Supply and Support Ships • Transferred to MARAD • • • • ==In fiction and literature==

Naval Base San Diego is the setting for the 2005 naval thriller novel Treason by Don Brown. ==Aerial view==

The Navy has promised to alter the design of one of the buildings on site, which from above clearly resembles a Nazi swastika pitched at the correct 45-degree angle the Nazis used. A report by SFGATE suggests that top officials in the Navy knew what the design of the building would look like prior to the installation. ==See also==