The Navy is reassigning part of its fleet in the Atlantic, where 60% of its ships have been based, to the Pacific, which will eventually be home to about 60% of the vessels.
This artist’s rendering of completed construction in Anaheim Bay at the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach shows the new pier, to be completed in 2024, and beyond it, the new public boating channel that opened Thursday, Dec. And it will allow the Navy to dock and load two medium-sized ships simultaneously.īut those aren’t the only reasons traffic at the new munitions pier will be increasing.
The project will allow the Navy to dock 840-foot amphibious assault ships, which are too big to fit at the existing dock and currently are loaded by helicopters offshore of Camp Pendleton.