McClellan Air Force Base Dock Annex (McClellan Field Crash Boat Station)


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McClellan Air Force Base Dock Annex
(McClellan Field Crash Boat Station)


A US Air Force barge crane moored at the McClellan AFB Dock Annex, 1 May 1987. (National Archives)

Originally established as a McClellan Field's Crash Boat Station and a riverside dock and warehouse. The two acre site is located on the Sacramento River at 1601 Garden Highway in Sacramento. After the crash boat mission ended the site continued to serve McClellan AFB as a dock for materiel, including aircraft, shipped by barges on the Sacramento River.

In 2006, the Site was quitclamed through the National Park Service to the City of Sacramento.

No other information is currently available.

Extract, War Department Inventory of Owned, Sponsored and Leased Facilities, December 1945

Capacity:
- Enlisted:
  - Permanent:
  - Mobilization (Quartermaster Corps 700-Series or Corps of Engineers 800-Series):
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- Officers:
- Station Hospital:
Acreage
- Owned:
- Leases: 2
- Total: 2
Storage:
- Covered: 3,200 sq ft
- Open:
Cost to Government Since 1 July 1940:
- Land:
- Construction:
- Total:
Remarks: