<p>This used to be a parking lot for the "reserve" fleet of ships that might be needed in case of war.
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It started after WWll, and as older ships were removed and scrapped, new ones were added after the Korean and Vietnam wars. Finally the population is going down - but it is now much more expensive to clean these ships of all their toxic elements before they can be scrapped.
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