Media Category: Subic Bay

This category encompass, the former Subic Bay Naval Base,-Naval Station,-Naval Air Station Cubi Point, the former Olongapo Naval Station,-the prewar Olongapo Town and the present Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

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Zf922. This is a written display of the trade history between the Philippine Islands and its neighbors which China was the most important one. This is an image of the Magellan’s Landing Maritime Museum owned by Brian Homan, proprietor of the Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar and Grill, also a Resort and Hotel.

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Zf921. This is a written display of the trade history between the Philippine Islands and its neighbors which China was the most important one. This is an image of the Magellan’s Landing Maritime Museum owned by Brian Homan, proprietor of the Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar and Grill, also a Resort and Hotel.

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Zf920. This is a written display of the trade history between the Philippine Islands and its neighbors which China was the most important one. This is an image of the Magellan’s Landing Maritime Museum owned by Brian Homan, proprietor of the Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar and Grill, also a Resort and Hotel.

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Zf904. These 3 pictures came from a Sailor on the USS Idaho and it said they are from Olongapo. This place only can be the Coaling Wharf. The very heavy concrete pilings are still in place and the Vasco Restaurant, Bar & Museum sits on them.

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Zf911. USS Proteus alongside the Coal Dock in Olongapo circa 1915; this is a picture from the Naval Historic Heritage Command

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Zf910. This Google Earth image is really up to date and it shows the left-over edges of the hill trucked away as fill and the 7 new fuel tanks that took the hills place and it shows the new extra fuel pier.

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Zf909. This is actually an updated map, where it says “Mine” that was a hill that got trucked away as fill for the new Container Port.

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Zf908. This is a 1940 picture from the Naval Historic Heritage Command; it is cropped by me to just show the area of the Coaling Wharf. Maybe it was used now as an oil fuelling wharf. Notice the Concrete bins are still there.

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Zf907. I forgot where I got this picture from but it shows the Olongapo Naval Station Coaling Wharf. But I have no idea when it was shot.

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Zf906. These 3 pictures came from a Sailor on the USS Idaho and it said they are from Olongapo. This place only can be the Coaling Wharf.

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