USS California Bell Memorial

[Left Side of Base Holding Bell]

Only battleship

built on the

Pacific Coast

Launched at

Mare Island

Navy Yard

Nov. 20, 1919

Ship’s bell

dedicated and

rung for the

last time by

Governor

Earl Warren

Oct. 27, 1949

[Right Side of Base Holding Bell]

World War I

Pearl Harbor

Mariana’s

Leyte Gulf

Surigao

Lincayen Gulf

Okinawa

Japan

Placed out

of commission

in reserve at

Philadelphia

Feb. 14, 1947

Third ...