Rough and Ready Island Naval Supply Depot


Rough and Ready Island Naval Supply Depot or Ruff and Ready Island is a former
United States Navy installation on the San Joaquin River in Stockton, California in San Joaquin County, near the Stockton Channel and was west of Stockton. The Supply Depot was built during World War II as part of the San Joaquin Depot that operated the nearby Tracy Depot Facility and the Sharpe Depot Facility.
The Rough and Ready Island Annex, which opened in 1944, operated as a supply Depot until 1959 when it became the Naval Communications Station for the Pacific Coast region. The Navy built the longest continuous concrete wharf, at, able berth 13 ships in a line. The Depot Annex served the United States Pacific Fleet. The Depot warehoused naval stores, disposed of surplus Naval property and provided logistical support for other Naval bases. For some time the wharf was used to store as mothballed ships of the reserve fleet for the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
The Naval Supply Depot was phased out of use as a result of special legislation sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein in 1995. It was transferred to the Port of Stockton between 2000 and 2003. This area of the port is now known as the "West Complex". Located at.
Rough and Ready Island Naval Supply Depot was also known as: Rough and Ready Island; Naval Supply Center, Oakland; Stockton Annex; Stockton Deep Water Slip Channel and Kwajalein Village, California.

Camp Stockton

On Rough and Ready Island was built a Prisoners of War camp called Camp Stockton. The POW camp held 1551 German POWs opened in April 1944 and closed in June 1946. Five German POW died at the camp and are buried at Benicia Army Cemetery. Camp Stockton is also sometimes used to include the Stockton detention facility at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. Stockton detention facility was first used as the Stockton Assembly Center for the temporary detention of Japanese Americans. When the Japanese Americans were move to permanent camps, the facility became a POW camp. The Stockton detention facility held 889 prisoners.