San Diego Bay and Coronado Bridge at night

San Diego Bay is a natural harbor adjacent to San Diego, California. It is 12 mi/19 km long, 1 mi/1.6 km–3 mi/4.8 km wide. The bay is bordered by the cities of San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and Coronado. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 382 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 489 pixel, file size: 142 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Coronado bridge, San Diego, California Downloaded from : [1] Credits : PD Photo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 382 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 489 pixel, file size: 142 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Coronado bridge, San Diego, California Downloaded from : [1] Credits : PD Photo. ... Nickname: Americas Finest City Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna... Nickname: Americas Finest City Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna... National City is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. ... Location of Chula Vista within San Diego County, California. ... View of the Pacific Ocean from Imperial Beach Imperial Beach is a city located in San Diego County, California. ... Coronado and San Diego, as viewed from the Cabrillo National Monument. ...

The western border of the bay is protected from the Pacific Ocean by a long, narrow strip of land called the Silver Strand. The northern end of the Silver Strand expands to become North Island, the location of Naval Air Station North Island (the home port of several aircraft carriers including the USS Ronald Reagan) and Coronado. Coronado is the site of the famous Hotel del Coronado. The U.S. Navy has two more facilities on the bay, Naval Station San Diego and Point Loma Naval Base at Ballast Point, which is a Nuclear Submarine base. The Coast Guard Air Station San Diego is across the bay from NAS North Island and the Federal Communications Commission maintains a monitoring station on the Silver Strand. Silver Strand is a name used for some beaches: Silver Strand (Ireland) (An Tráigh Bhán) is a beach in south west County Donegal, Ireland Silver Strand (San Diego) is an isthmus with a beach in San Diego County, California Silver Strand Beach is a beach nieghborhood in the... A C-5 Galaxy is loaded with people and equipment from the Deep Submergence Unit, Naval Base Coronado. ... USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), the ninth Nimitz-class supercarrier, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for President Ronald Reagan. ... Hotel del Coronado- Coronado, San Diego County, California. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Naval Station San Diego is the largest base of the United States Navy on the west coast of the United States, in San Diego, California. ... Ballast Point may refer to a number of geographic locations: Ballast Point, an area in the suburb of Birchgrove in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Nuclear navy, or nuclear powered navy consists of ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as naval reactors. ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Günther Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate... The FCCs official seal. ...

San Diego International Airport is also adjacent to the bay, across Harbor Drive from the Coast Guard Station. General Dynamics' National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), the only shipyard on the west coast capable of building and repairing large ocean-going vessels, is near the San Diego side of the graceful San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. The bay has two container ship facilities (one for refrigerated containers) and a cruise ship terminal. FAA diagram of San Diego International Airport San Diego International Airport (IATA: SAN, ICAO: KSAN, FAA LID: SAN), also known as Lindbergh Field, is located in San Diego, California. ... General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2005 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. ... National Steel and Shipbuilding Company or simply NASSCO is a shipyard in San Diego, California, and a division of General Dynamics. ... The San Diego-Coronado Bridge, locally referred to as the Coronado Bridge, is a prestressed concrete/steel girder bridge, crossing over San Diego Bay in the United States, linking San Diego, California with Coronado, California. ... Container ship in Istanbul Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. ...

Several museum ships call San Diego Bay home. These include the USS Midway, the largest aircraft carrier museum, and the Star of India, the oldest active ship. USS Wisconsin is one of three Iowa class battleships opened to the public as a museum, and one of two Iowa class battleships maintained in the US Mothball fleet. ... USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class, and the first to be commissioned after the end of World War II. Active in the Vietnam War and in Operation Desert Storm, as of 2006 she is a... Four aircraft carriers, Principe-de-Asturias, USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and HMS Invincible (front-to-back), showing the difference in size between a supercarrier, light V/STOL carriers, and an amphibious carrier. ... The Euterpe in 1883, later renamed the Star of India. ...

The shallow southern end of the bay is used for evaporation ponds to extract salt from the sea water.

The Port of San Diego manages the harbor and administers the public lands adjacent to the bay, including the airport. It is a special government entity created by the state legislature and has its own tax base and police force.