Naval Operating Base Terminal Island

Roosevelt Base Terminal Island shipyard was founded in September 1942 as a ship repair facility.

Roosevelt Base also was the administrative and 40 acre recreational center for the Naval facilities on Terminal Island.

Roosevelt Base Terminal Island was renamed Naval Station Long Beach on 15 November 1946.

The Roosevelt Base had: shipyards, a Marine barracks, fuel tank foram, net depot, ammunition depot, hospital, prison, degaussing range, radio station, mess halls and recreational center, schools, and Navy barracks.

The expansion of the harbor breakwater and dredging to make more land was included in the Roosevelt Base plan.

[9] On 9 February 1943 the named of the shipyard change again to US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base, California.

[citation needed] With so much activity in the peak of World War II, in 1944 a pontoon bridge was built to Terminal Island.

Other local craft builders were: Harbor Boat Building Company, Fellows & Stewart, Hodgson-Greene-Haldeman Shipbuilders, Peyton Company, Wilmington Boat Works, Al Larson Boat Shop, Garbutt-Walsh Inc., South Coast Shipyard, United Concrete Pipe Corporation, and San Pedro Boatworks The US Navy also had Small Craft Training Centers in Miami, Florida, Santa Barbara, California and other sites.

Troops were housed, processed, and prepared before departing on a ship at Naval Operating Base Terminal Island.

Naval Air Base San Pedro, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island on Terminal Island
Roosevelt Base
USS Snowbell minesweeper used for training
Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro shipyard in 1944, with Naval Operating Base Terminal Island tank farm in lower left
Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Plant, San Pedro, California on March 23, 1942.
ARDC-8 a Concrete Floating Drydocks being towed at Naval Operating Base Terminal Island
Map of the City of San Pedro, part on the southern part of Palos Verdes Peninsula and part on Terminal Island . The City of Wilmington is to the north of San Pedro with three docks that were part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island
Los Angeles Harbor Light built in 1913, on the 2.11-mile San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1911, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island in World War II
Entrance to Camp Ross in San Pedro, supporting troop deparing at Naval Operating Base Terminal Island