Other than four regional parks, the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park (rated #1) and the SS Red Oak Victory (rated #6) are,
according to Tripadvisor, .Richmond’s top visitor attractions, The historic Red Oak Victory ship, is owned by the Richmond Museum Association and, by an Act of Congress, is part of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park.
Ever since it was towed to Richmond in 1998, however, the Red Oak Victory has sparked one after another contentious political battle.
With great fanfare, the Red Oak Victory was towed to Richmond and berthed at unused Terminal 1 next to Ferry Point in 1998 (“Richmond
to Honor Veteran Ship/Red Oak Victory vessel returns home after 53 years”). In the following 28 years, City staff and the City Council has had a love-hate relationship with the historic ship. Terminal 1 was the perfect place – accessible by the public
and lots of layout and onshore storage space at an unused city-owned site. And it’s still there – unused.
Then, the City decided to solicit potential developers for Terminal 1. Staff was so sure they would find a developer and start a project immediately, that he city attorney
actually issued an eviction notice to the Red Oak Vicory. Didn’t bother to ask nicely or work with the Richmond Museum Association to find an alternative. Evicted. Ironically, 20 years later, Terminal 1 is still undeveloped.
Then, the Red Oak moved to another unused berth, the south end of Point Potrero Marine Terminal, in front of the Riggers Loft at Berth 5. But, as the Riggers Loft rehabilitation
was completed and the space leased to the Riggers Loft Wine Company, the Riggers Loft owner and the port director, the late Jim Matzorkis, said it had to be moved because it would interfere with patrons’ view of the Bay and San Francisco.
Swayed initially by lobbying by Foss Maritime already using Basin 5, the port director planned to move the Red Oak Victory to Basin 1 (“Red
Oak Victory Will Move to Basin 1”) the eastern-most of five historic basins (“graving docks”) which had no parking, limited laydown space and was a long walk from the Riggers Loft. The City Council initially voted to move the ship to Basin 1
(“Richmond: Red Oak Victory Ship will be relocated”), but later reconsidered. In another contentious City Council session, the City Council reversed itself and agreed to move the ship to Basin 5, next to the Riggers Loft and the Whirley Crane, where it
remains today. The only dissenting vote was Councilmember Martinez, who has always been a suck up to port directors who pay his way, year after year, to multiple junkets to China (“Battle
Over Historic Ship Continues at a Special Meeting of City Council”).
Figure 1 – Tripadvisor rates the Red Oak Victory as one of Richmond’s top six attractions
Last week, the City Council, with one dissenting vote, moved to spend $300,000 of Port funds to study moving the Red Oak Victory a fourth time, to the Santa Fe Channel just
north of the ferry terminal.
Neither the National Park Service nor the ship’s owner, the Richmond Museum Association, are advocating for the move . It is an unlikely coalition of volunteers who try to
keep the vessel shipshape, Mayor Eduardo Martinez and other Richmond Progressive Alliance City Council members (although Sue Wilson did not vote to fund the study), and Congressman Garamendi. What are their motivations?
Well, Martinez simply wants Point Potrero Marine Terminal (Historic Shipyard 3) cleared out for his favorite project – an offshore wind support facility, and he sees the Red Oak Victory
as an impediment, just as he saw the Riggers Loft as an impediment and forced that business out. Jimenez has always supported Martinez in his offshore wind facility dream. In a recent Richmondside article, Martinez was quoted, “He [Martinez] also said
the ship must be moved to make way for the port revitalization. ‘So, it’s going to move,’ he said. ‘It needs to move for us to revitalize the port, and I consider this as part of the revitalization of the port.’”
The volunteers who maintain the Red Oak Victory volunteers are justly frustrated. They see the ship slowly turning into a rust bucket with insufficient funds to maintain it.
Without major grants, the ship depends largely on nickel and dime fundraisers like the Mothers’ Day Pancake Breakfast coming up on May 10, 2026, which charges $20.00 a head (“Red
Oak Victory launches pancake breakfast on Mother’s Day”). The needs of the Red Oak Victory are far beyond what pancake breakfasts and 1940’s movies can pay for, and volunteers are spending too much of their time hosting events and providing tours rather
than maintaining the ship. You can see the rust, but you can’t see perhaps the most expensive need — the ship needs to be hauled out to address deterioration in the hull with a multi-million-dollar price tag. Last time this was done, it cost $1.5 million.
Garamendi is obsessed with ships. He is a leading advocate for the SHIPS
for America Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at revitalizing U.S. shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries to counter China’s dominance in global shipbuilding and strengthen national security. But, more
importantly, he just wants to act like he is doing something for Richmond and supporting the Richmond City Council on the Red Oak Victory move. So far, Garamendi isn’t offering any funding.
In the City Council hearing last week where the $300,000 expenditure was approved, no City Council member asked any hard questions; they just followed their biases or took
whatever was fed to them by staff and some volunteers at face value.
For over a year, I have been opposing both the study and the proposed move and providing information to City Council members that has been largely ignored but is based on over
25 years working with the National Park Service in Richmond supporting the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park and the Red Oak Victory. The National Park Service does not support the study and questions the relocation because it is contrary
to the General Management Plan that the City approved decades ago and adopted as an element in the General Plan 2030. Once Donna Powers’ Rosie the Riveter Memorial was completed, I took the lead in coordinating all the City work required to make the park
a reality. I was the main point of contact with the NPS, wrote all the legislation and secured City Council approval. I lobbied Congress with in-person testimony. I founded Rosie the Riveter Trust, the park’s nonprofit partner that is now a $1 million+ organization
supporting park projects and programs, and I continue to serve on the board of the Trust. I played a key role in securing berthing rights for the Red Oak Victory. If it weren’t for me, the ROV would be way off in Basin 1 instead of Basin 5, where, unlike Basin
1, there is abundant parking and laydown space. “Booze Wants to Sink the Red Oak Victory” and “WWII
Ship at Richmond Port May be Asked to Pay Rent” Ultimately, the City Council rejected requiring the Red Oak Victory to pay rent (Richmond
City Council Debates Charging to Berth the Historic SS Red Oak)
A more significant problem is that neither the current nor the former port director have ever embraced the idea of a national park on port property, believing it simply interfered
with their job of operating a port.
The idea of relocating the Red Oak Victory des not need a study; it doesn’t meet a simple fatal flaw analysis.
- There is no parking at the proposed relocation, other than existing
ferry parking, which is typically full weekdays and even game day weekends. The port director says that most visitors will come on weekends when spaces are available. That means that no significant visitation will happen M-F. If they expect 20,000 to 30,000
visitors, mostly on weekends, that means 192 to 288 visitors per day Saturday and Sunday to reach the goal of 20,000 to 30,000 visitors. As a comparison, they claim the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center draws 40,000 to 60,000 visitors annually. No one is checking
these claims, and that one is simply untrue. The Visitor Center 2025 visitation was 33,689, and there is no admission cost. Expecting that more people will visit the ROV than the Visitor Center, and pay $20 or the privilege, is wishful thinking. - There is no laydown space at the proposed new location. Laydown
space is critical to maintaining the ROV. Maggiora & Ghilotti recently donated a $80,000 Telehandler to the Red Oak Victory
(“SS Red Oak Victory gets $80K equipment donation to accelerate restoration”). You can see it below working in the expansive laydown space at the Red Oak’s current berth. There is no similar space available at the proposed relocation.
Figure 2 – Caterpillar TL1055C Telehandler
- Store sales at the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center
currently net about $90,000 annually. But the store is staffed all day, 7 days a week. On what basis can the ROV project $100,000 to $150,000 sales
with essentially no visitors M-F? - With limited parking in the proposed new location, how could the ROV expect “community/private event” sales to
more than double the current level? The current location has vehicle access, Bay Trail access, and plenty of parking. Events typically provide detailed location instructions, and there is no evidence that people can’t find the ROV. Before the City forced
the Riggers Loft out of business, they were hosting more visitors than the ROV – 22,000 annually, and many of them became ROV visitors. These are not serendipitous events. Even if they were, there is not much walk-in or drive-by traffic on the Ford Peninsula
– mostly ferry patrons. - There is
no obvious relationship between the location of the ROV and the availability of grants, or the prospect of a grant award. There is no basis for anticipating that grant revenue will rise nearly 500% when the ROV is relocated.
Staff told the City Council that the $300,000 would come from the “Port,” like that wasn’t really City money. The Port, which is a City department – not a separate entity,
is not exactly flush. Their own study documented over $226 million in deferred maintenance, and although
it’s a simply an accounting trick, they still owe the General Fund tens of millions of dollars.
One thing the port director said that is probably accurate is that the process would take at least 5 years. Meanwhile, the ROV is rusting away, and they are pinning all their
hopes on a flawed relocation plan to solve all their problems.
The Red Oak needs to raise at least $1 million to $2 million a year just to keep up with maintenance.
That’s maybe $10 million over the five years before a potential move.
The advocates are so focused on relocation that they are not doing do some obvious things to increase visibility. For example, there are no wayfinding signs directing people
to the ROV outside PPMT, and no plan to raise the major multi-million funds other than relocating the ship..
Figure 3 – The cost-benefit analysis provided by staff to the City Council is badly flawed
Figure 4 – The move would take five years
The problem with the Red Oak Victory is actually a larger one — the fact that the RPA-led City Council has never embraced Richmond’s national park, the Rosie the Riveter WWII
Home Front National Historical Park. Most communities would do almost anything to get a national park and the recognition it brings, but not Richmond.
The Richmond General Plan 2030 called for significant cooperation and support by the City, all of which would benefit the City by promoting tourism and marketing the City of
Richmond, including economic development opportunities. The City, unfortunately, has been totally passive, and over the years, the City has been even generally hostile to the Red Oak Victory.
Instead of working with the National Park Service with respect to the Red Oak Victory, the City and the City Council, dismissed the wishes of the National Park Service and
went a different direction.
How to save the Red Oak Victory? Start by working with the National Park Service, not against it. Embrace the Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical Park and
comply with the General Plan 2030. Execute a cooperative agreement (Action NP1.A) and establish a national park cooperative partners forum (Action NP1.B).
Provide grant writing support to the Richmond Museum Assoiation (owner of the ROV) to raise funds to maintain the ROV.
Instead of asking Congressman Garamendi to find funds to move the ROV, ask him to help find funds to maintain it. The $20 million for the move would provide at least 10-20
years of maintenance.
Figure 5 – Excerpt from the Richmond General Plan 2030, including actions to execute a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service and establish a National park Cooperating Partners Forum.
Will the SS Red Oak Victory ship be docked somewhere new? A $300K study will try
to find out
The historic ship, which operates as a nonprofit museum, has been at Point Potrero since 1998, but there’s an effort to relocate it to Ford Point
near the Rosie the Riveter visitor center to boost the ship’s revenue.
by Joel
UmanzorApril 30, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
The SS Red Oak Victory, docked at 1377 Canal Blvd., is the last surviving ship built at the Richmond Kaiser Shipyards
during World War II. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Richmondside
Is Richmond getting the most out of the historic SS Red Oak Victory ship at its current location?
The Richmond City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to spend nearly $300,000 to answer the question of whether the city
should move the last surviving war vessel built at the Kaiser Shipyards during World War II to Ford Point near the Rosie the Riveter national park, a more prominent location that some city officials and ship supporters believe would attract more
visitors.
The council approved a contract with Liftech Consultants, an Oakland-based marine engineering firm, to “conduct preliminary planning and design work” for moving
the ship from Basin 5 at the Point Potrero terminal to the east side of the harbor near the Richmond Ferry Terminal and the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park visitor center.
Liftech will assess existing soil and environmental conditions at the proposed new site while also identifying the cost of berthing the vessel, the permitting needed
and the initial design proposal — which would trigger the state’s environmental quality review process.
The contract’s term goes through June 30, 2027.
Chevron employees volunteer on the SS Red Oak Victory by removing rust from the deck, also called “needle gunning,”
on Oct. 1, 2024. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Richmondside
According to Port of Richmond estimates, the cost of designing, permitting and constructing the relocation could be between $16 million and $22 million and would
take five years to complete — what Port Director Charles Gerrard described as a “long term” project.
The SS Red Oak Victory was built and launched in 1944 and served as an ammunition carrier
in the Pacific during the war. It later supported U.S. troops in the Korean and Vietnam wars. In 1996, the U.S. Maritime Administration transferred ownership to the Richmond Museum Association and it has been sitting at Point Potrero since 1998 as a floating
museum and event center.
Port volunteers and Fred Klink, director of marketing for the SS Red Oak, spoke to the council on Tuesday in support of the move, saying it would generate more revenue
being near the visitor center.
According to National Park Service statistics,
the Rosie the Riveter visitor center has struggled to attract the same level of visitors it had prior to the pandemic.
After the center opened in 2012, its best year was in 2016 with 64,425 visitors. Last year, the center had about 33,689 visitors.
Currently, the SS Red Oak Victory generates about $153,000 in annual revenue from visitor admissions, store sales, private events and fundraising, according to a
cost-benefit analysis submitted by the ship’s organization, which projected that revenue could be increased to $950,000 to $1.2 million annually if the ship is relocated.
“The reason why the relocation is so important to all of us who work on the ship and understand the daily operation of the ship is primarily financial. As Port Director
Gerard mentioned, we’re looking at about $150,000 income in our present location in shipyard number three. We feel very confident that we can do close to a million dollars in income if we were to move to the new location at Ford Point,” Klink said, adding
that the Ford Point location gives the ship better public accessibility and visibility.
A former cargo hold now serves as an event space in the museum on the SS Red Oak Victory. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for
Richmondside
Mayor Eduardo Martinez, who has made revitalizing
the port a main focus, agrees the ship should be moved and said that the Richmond Museum Association isn’t under the impression that a new space would be built.
“They know that this is just a study and is to help us understand what it takes to move them to another place,” Martinez said.
He also said the ship must be moved to make way for the port revitalization.
“So, it’s going to move,” he said. “It needs to move for us to revitalize the port, and I consider this as part of the revitalization of the port.”
Mayor says South Korea is interested in Red Oak Victory
Martinez also said officials from South Korea have expressed interest in purchasing the Red Oak Victory and proposed a possible arrangement during a visit to Richmond.
“They wanted to buy it so that they could fix it up for their historic museum because … (it’s) a victory ship (that) actually helped them during the Korean War,”
Martinez said. “They wanted to salute that, to celebrate that.”
Under that concept, the ship would spend six months of the year docked in Richmond and six months in South Korea, with the city apparently collecting revenue from
the arrangement, Martinez said.
“So if we did that, it would free up that landing for other ships to use and we could collect rent from other ships during those six months. We also could create
two special days in the city of Richmond. When the ship leaves, we would have a ship leaving celebration. When the ship comes back, we would have another homecoming celebration. This would be an extravaganza celebrating the victory ship and what the victory
ship means to the city of Richmond,” he said.
Martinez did not provide documentation for that idea, and no such arrangement was referenced in the informational materials posted with the meeting agenda. South
Korea has a documented historical interest in U.S. victory ships, for example, the SS Meredith Victory, a sister vessel of the Red Oak Victory built in Los Angeles, evacuated about 14,000 Korean refugees during the Korean War, and a monument to the Meredith
stands in South Korea today.
The SS Meredith Victory, a sister vessel of the Red Oak Victory, evacuated about 14,000 Korean refugees during the Korean
War, and a monument to the Meredith stands in South Korea today. Courtesy of the U.S. Maritime Institute
Mark Epperson, director of the Red Oak Victory, which is run and maintained by volunteers, said that he estimated the ship’s annual visitor admission revenue could
jump from $21,000, which was the 2025 figure at the current site, to between $400,000 and $600,000 near the Rosie the Riveter site.
“The Rosie the Riveter (national park) is free. Half of those people we get from them come over to the Red Oak Victory,” Epperson said. “Interpolating, we are going
to get 20,000 (visitors) for the first year. If (48,000) to 50,000 people go (to the Rosie), we are going to get half of that.”
Wilson, who was the lone dissenting vote, challenged Epperson, saying that she wouldn’t “assume” a large percentage of people going to the free Rosie museum would
pay to visit the Red Oak Victory, which currently charges $15 for self-guided tours and $20 and up for a docent-guided walk. Events on the ship usually ask for a donation and charge for refreshments.
Wilson said that although she likes the idea of moving the ship, she wanted to see what the funding path would be for the whole project before spending $300,000 on
a study.
It was suggested that U.S. Rep. John Garamendi had indicated there could be federal funding to help, though Wilson said it would be less than $5 million, and that
Garamendi, who is running for reelection, has not committed to it.
“What I’m seeing is a $15 million gap in the construction of the wharf and then the ongoing costs of maintaining and operating that ship,” Wilson said. “I hear what
you’re saying, that you want us to sign off on the study so that we can go out and find out if someone will fund this. But I feel like what I was hoping to have in this presentation was a list of, here are some organizations or individuals or you know federal
funds that go toward this sort of project. And in the absence of that, I don’t have a lot of confidence. I think we’re going to end up spending $300,000 to reach a conclusion that I’m sort of reaching tonight — that people love this ship, but nobody’s coming
forward to pay for it. And I don’t think it’s the Port of Richmond that should close that gap on paying.”
A life preserver ring is seen next to one of the original guns on deck of the SS Red Oak Victory. Credit: Kelly Sullivan
for Richmondside
The vote also drew a sharp rebuke from former Mayor Tom Butt, who emailed District 4 council member Soheila Bana Wednesday to share his perspective.
Butt, who played a role in establishing the Rosie the Riveter park and in securing the Red Oak Victory’s current berth, said the relocation plan is driven by what
he described as Mayor Martinez’s vision of converting the Point Potrero Marine Terminal into an offshore wind support facility.
In the email, which was forwarded to Richmondside, he challenged the cost-benefit projections, noting that the proposed new site has no dedicated parking, no lay-down
space for maintenance work, and that the Rosie the Riveter visitor center’s actual 2025 attendance of about 35,000 a year falls short of the 40,000 to 60,000 figure the Port used to estimate its visitor revenue projections for the relocated ship.
Butt also wrote that the Port’s over $200 million
in deferred maintenance makes the claim that the contract to study the move is simply using “Port funds” is misleading.
“If it sounds like I am pissed, I am,” Butt wrote to Bana.
Sunday, May 3rd 2026
Moving this East Bay ship
could cost millions — officials say it’s worth it
Ship keeper Desiree Heveroh patrols the exterior of the SS Red Oak Victory ship docked in
Richmond, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. The Red Oak Victory ship is currently undergoing two weeks of renovations by volunteers who are mostly female. The Red Oak Victory ship is a Boulder Victory-class cargo ship that was used during WWII to transport
ammunition. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
By Sierra
Lopez | slopez@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM PDT | UPDATED: May 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM PDT
RICHMOND — The Richmond City Council has agreed to a study that may offer guidance on a divisive question that has vexed the city for quite
some time: what to do with its historic World War II ship.
The SS Red Oak Victory has sat in the Port of Richmond for decades. Some community members have advocated for moving the vessel, which now
serves as a floating museum, in order to generate revenue for the city, its port and the ship’s nonprofit owner, but efforts have stalled due to $20 million relocation cost. Some opponents of the move also believe that if the ship is taken out of its current
location, its historical context will be lost.
The
SS Red Oak Victory was one of hundreds of ships built in the Kaiser Shipyards in the 1940s, and, after serving a number of missions, is
among the last few known to still be intact.
Returned to Richmond in 1998, it has functioned as a wartime museum and monument to the thousands of men and women who answered the call.
Hoping to see a boost in visitors, the Richmond Museum Association — which owns the Red Oak Victory — and many long-time volunteers would like
to see the ship moved from its current location down a windy road to a new spot near Richmond’s more frequented Marina Bay.
“The Red Oak Victory has already demonstrated its value as a national and international tourist asset,” SS Red Oak Victory Ship Director Mark
Epperson said during a council meeting Tuesday. “Preserving and strengthening the Red Oak Victory access and presence in Richmond aligns both with economic development goals and the city’s identity as a center of American home front history.”
If moved to the preferred location, the ship would be staged near the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park, the
Craneway Pavilion, Richmond Ferry Station, small restaurants and other local businesses.
While nearby attractions could drive revenue growth for the museum, vacating the berth it currently occupies would also enable the port to
lease out the space to generate additional income of its own, bringing in tax revenue that would benefit the city, Port Director Charles Gerard has said.
The cost of studying the proposal has already been accounted for in the port’s budget, Gerard said. The port plans to contract with Liftech
Consultants Inc., an engineering firm in Oakland, to do the work for $299,797.
A majority of councilmembers agreed Tuesday to allow the port to pursue the study after expressing optimism for the Red Oak Victory’s potential.
Mayor Eduardo Martinez said delegates from South Korea have expressed an interest in fixing up the ship and sharing it on a bi-annual basis.
The city could celebrate the partnership with an “extravaganza” when the ship docks and departs.
Councilmember Soheila Bana said she could see the ship being used for overnight stays or as an emergency center.
Councilmember Cesar Zepeda acknowledged the ship’s storied history and the dedication of those who have dedicated years to stewarding the historic
vessel.
“This ship has always been there for our various communities — ready to go, ready to help — and I think the least we could do is try to pay
that back to this ship,” .
A key sticking point, aside from parking and equipment storage restraints, is that the project is estimated to cost between $16 million and
$20 million with the development of a new dock.
Gerard said the port has applied for funding from U.S. Rep. John Garamendi’s office that would help rehabilitate Berth 5, where the Red Oak
Victory is currently stationed. The port’s project is one of the finalists being considered, he said.
With support from Garamendi’s office, the Port of Richmond was recently awarded $11.2 million in federal Maritime Administration funding through
the Port Infrastructure Development Program for separate infrastructure upgrades.
No funding for the ship’s relocation has been guaranteed, Gerard acknowledged, and a funding plan would not be part of the initial study. But,
the study will help develop a preliminary design and more accurate project cost estimates, which would move conversations about finances forward, he said.
Funding sources would have to be identified before the project was approved in the future, Gerard said.
Councilmembers
previously sided against allowing the port to spend the $300,000 needed for the study. Concerned the port would pay for a study that would go nowhere, they said they wanted more information on how the funds would be raised to actually build the
dock and move the ship.
Some of those concerns remain.
Councilmember Sue Wilson, the lone vote against permitting the study, and Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, who ultimately supported the proposal,
said they still wanted clearer details on how exactly the project would be paid for.
Jimenez said Garamendi, who has been an advocate for the ship’s relocation, should be offering financial support for the initiative. Wilson
said she was hoping to see at least some ideas of different grant or funding opportunities that could help cover the costs.
“I think we’re going to spend $300,000 to reach a conclusion that I’m sort of reaching tonight, is that people love this ship but no one is
coming forward to pay for it and I don’t think it’s the Port of Richmond that should close that gap,” Wilson said.
The National Parks Service would prefer to keep the ship in its current location.
Richmond’s collection of WWII infrastructure is unique and is the reason the city was selected as the host of a national home front park, said
Elaine Jackson Rando, acting superintendent of the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park.
By keeping the ship in the port where it was built, visitors can get a fuller sense of what it was like to work in the shipyard during the
time period, said Isabel Zeigler, Resource Stewardship and Planning Division manager.
“Separated from context, the ship tells a smaller story,” Zeigler said.
“The rationale is straightforward. The current location of the ship provides authentic context. Visitors experience a real World War II ship yard setting, not a ship in isolation.”
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