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  USS Saratoga (CV-3) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Departing Bremerton on 28 April 1941, the carrier participated in a landing force exercise in May and made two trips to Hawaii between June and October as the diplomatic crisis with Japan came to a head.
There her 8-inch guns were useless against aircraft and were removed for installation in shore defenses, and the carrier proceeded to the Bremerton Navy Yard for permanent repairs and installation of a modern anti-aircraft battery.
With the arrival of large numbers of Essex -class carriers, Saratoga was surplus to postwar requirements, and she was assigned to Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll to test the effect of the atomic bomb on naval vessels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Saratoga_(CV-3)   (3023 words)

  
 USS Arizona (BB-39) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her keel was laid at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on March 16, 1914.
She underwent a brief overhaul at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard commencing on October 27, receiving the foundation for a search radar atop her foremast.
The Navy is considering nonintrusive means of abating the continued leakage of oil to avoid the further environmental degradation of the harbor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)   (2677 words)

  
 Navy-Yard-Org
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who was charged with the general administrative control of the material and personnel activities of all naval shore establishments, as well as supervising the preparation of departmental estimates for the navy's Budget Officer, which in turn the Secretary of the Navy submitted to the Bureau of the Budget.
While navy yards certainly had the ability to train non-white tradesmen, they like most private employers adhered to the social and racist norms of the day, although in their case not overtly.
To increase navy yard security all workers had their pictures taken for ID badges, and as a final rite they had to swear a oath as to the veracity of their application and their willingness to abide by all civil service regulations.
www.columbia.edu /~jrs9/Navy-Yard-Org.html   (4044 words)

  
 Bremerton News
A Bremerton couple was sentenced in Kitsap County Superior Court this month to at least five years in prison for a string of robberies last May that began in North Kitsap and included a South Kitsap espresso...
The Bremerton School District is close to closing its budget gap for the 2005-2006 school year.
BREMERTON - The thieves typically come at night, sometimes illuminating their work with headlamps or muffling the sound of chain-saw exhaust by attaching a hose that runs into a bucket of water.
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 World Aircraft Carriers List: US Fleet Carriers, WWII Era
SCB 125 angled deck modernization at Bremerton Navy Yard 7/1955 to 3 Jan 1956.
SCB 125 angled deck modernization at Bremerton Navy Yard 3/1955 to 15 Oct 1955.
Temporarily repaired at sea and was able to return to New York Navy Yard under her own power for permanent repairs; most seriously damaged carrier to reach port.
www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/us_fleet.htm   (6114 words)

  
 CV-3 USS Saratoga
During the return to the west coast, Saratoga and Lexingtonfollowed this feat with "strikes" on Mare Island and Alameda.Saratoga was under overhaul during the 1939 fleet concentration, but, between2 April and 21 June 1940, she participated in Fleet Problem XXI, the lastto be held due to the deepening world crisis.
Between 14 and 29 October 1940, Saratoga transported a draft of militarypersonnel from San Pedro to Hawaii; and, on 6 January 1941, she enteredthe Bremerton Navy Yard for a long deferred modernization, including wideningher flight deck forward and fitting a blister on her starboard side andadditional small antiaircraft guns.
Departing Bremerton on 28 April 1941,the carrier participated in a landing force exercise in May and made twotrips to Hawaii between June and October as the diplomatic crisis with Japancame to a head.
www.multied.com /NAVY/Cv3Saratoga.html   (2501 words)

  
 Dee's Story
He was a trackman ("gandy dancer"), a rigger aboard tugboats and fishing boats and at the Bremerton Navy Yard, and a stoker ("fireman") at manufacturing plants.
Dee went to work at the Navy Yard in Bremerton, WA, 40 miles from home, and stayed with his sister Gladys and her husband Wyatt Millikan in Moneta.
In August, 1934 Dee left his job at the Navy Yard to be closer to his mother when she became seriously ill and died within the month.
members.kconline.com /rdbarnhart/family/dee.htm   (2039 words)

  
 Random Recollections, by Fulton Quintus Cincinnatus Gardner, Chapter 37 In_command_of_4th_AA
In the meantime the two Brigades had arrived at Seattle and at San Diego and were busily engaged in preparing plans for the AA defense of the Bremerton Navy Yard and the Boeing Airplane plant at Seattle and of the big airplane plant at San Diego.
General Marshall, Chief of Staff, was greatly concerned about the defense of the Bremerton Navy Yard, and as soon as the balloons were received he began pressing General DeWitt to expedite their installation in every way possible and he wanted daily reports as to the progress made.
Your grandmother, during this period, had the old slave's quarters, in the yard, near the house, rebuilt into the present Cabin, which she rented, at a nominal price, to young officers and their wives having small babies, who were unable to find habitable quarters elsewhere.
home.earthlink.net /~sgeubank/random/37.html   (2841 words)

  
 Saratoga (CV-3)
Curtis D. Wilbur, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned on 16 November 1927, Capt. Harry E. Yarnell in command.
Between 14 and 29 October 1940, Saratoga transported a draft of military personnel from San Pedro to Hawaii, and, on 6 January 1941, she entered the Bremerton Navy Yard for a long deferred modernization, including widening her flight deck forward and fitting a blister on her starboard side and additional small antiaircraft guns.
She survived the first blast, an air burst on 1 July, with only minor damage, but was mortally wounded by the second on 25 July, an underwater blast which was detonated under a landing craft 500 yards from the carrier.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/carriers/cv3.htm   (2924 words)

  
 History - Kitsap Credit Union
It was chartered in November, 1934 as the Navy Yard Metal Trades Credit Union with membership limited to employees of the Navy Yard who were members of labor unions affiliated with the Bremerton Metal Trades Council.
Staff members worked with the Bremerton Housing Authority to implement the program once the grant was approved and provided a majority of the financial education required of participants in the program.
The Bremerton High School Student Financial Center is now open to students and faculty of the high school during all lunch periods.
www.kitsapcreditunion.org /about/index_241.php   (2242 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Because the Navy Yard Puget Sound was not strategically located to serve as a repair facility for a war in the Atlantic Ocean, the navy yard’s mission was changed in 1916 from overhaul and repair work to the construction of new warships.
By 1940, Navy Yard Puget Sound was the principal naval shipyard on the West Coast and the only one with the capacity to handle aircraft carriers and battleships.
By 1942, the navy yard had five large dry-docks ranging in size from 639 feet long by 120 feet wide by 39 feet deep (Dry-dock No. 1) to 1,030 feet long by 147 feet wide by 54 feet deep (Dry-dock No. 5).
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5579   (3349 words)

  
 Leutze dd 481
Leutze (DD-481) was laid down 3 June 1941 by Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; launched 29 October 1942; sponsored by hliss Caroline Rowcliff, granddaughter of Rear Adm. E.
While protecting Navy frogmen on the 17th, she took a shell on the after part of the forward steek.
Leutze decommissioned 6 December 1943, was struck from the navy Register 3 January 1946, and ultimately purchased for scrap by Thomas Harris, Barker, N.J..
www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/Leutzedd481.html   (801 words)

  
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On 23d July he was transferred to Bremerton as camp religious work director; and on 1st December was made camp general secretary in the Bremerton Navy Yards.
Enlisted in the Navy 10 Jul 1917 at Bremerton.
Left Bremerton 19 Jan. 1918, on the U.S.S. Great Northern Feb. 11th for the Navy Yard at Philadelphia and on February 12th was transferred to the radio school at that place.
www.rootsweb.com /~waskagit/snohmil2.html   (19011 words)

  
 DD-481 Leutze
Leutze (DD-481) was laid down 3 June 1941 by Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; launched 29 October 1942; sponsored by Miss Caroline Rowcliff, granddaughter of Rear Adm. E.
While protecting Navy frogmen on the 17th, she took a shell on the after part of the forward stack.
Leutze decommissioned 6 December 1945 and was struck from the navy Register 3 January 1946.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-481.htm   (787 words)

  
 Anteon.com - Locations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Once you reach Gorst (which sits at the end of a large body of water called Sinclair Inlet) you are nearing Bremerton.
Highway 16, at this point now called Navy Yard Highway, will take you around the western boundary of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
Inform the ticket booth attendant that your destination is Bremerton, pay your fare, then follow his/her directions.
www.anteon.com /company/locations/company_locations_bremerton.htm   (558 words)

  
 USS Louisville CA-28 "Lady Lou" History
The third Louisville (CL-28) was launched 1 September 1930 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; sponsored by Miss Jane Brown Kennedy; commissioned 15 January 1931, Capt. E.J. Marquart in command.
Following this operation, Louisville returned to Pearl Harbor, proceeding thence to Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, where her armament was increased.
Remaining with that fleet for the next 13 years, Louisville was struck from the Navy list, 1 March 1959, and sold, 14 September, to the Marlene Blouse Corp. of New York.
www.volunteerlongdistance.com /uss_louisville/history.html   (1347 words)

  
 Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard - Biggest ship resource on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Navy Yard Puget Sound, WashThe ship in the center is...
By 1940, Navy Yard Puget Sound was the principal naval shipyard on the West Coast and the only...
to the Navy's One Yard concept because we are...
ship.incredosite.info /index.php?k=puget-sound-naval-ship-yard   (1124 words)

  
 Bremerton, Washington Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime, ...
Bremerton, Washington Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime,...
New: Bremerton, WA residents, houses, and apartments details
Nearest cities: Navy Yard City, WA (1.7 miles), Port Orchard, WA (2.8 miles), Tracyton, WA (2.9 miles), East Port Orchard, WA (3.9 miles), Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake, WA (4.1 miles), Parkwood, WA (4.5 miles), Silverdale, WA (6.4 miles), Manchester, WA (7.2 miles).
www.city-data.com /city/Bremerton-Washington.html   (1287 words)

  
 VPNAVY - USS Casco (AVP-12) History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
USS Casco, a 1,766-ton Barnegat -class small seaplane tender, was built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, and was commissioned in December 1941.
She was returned to the Navy in March 1969 and expended as a target in May 1969..
Casco was floated on 12 September, and after emergency repairs at Dutch Harbor and Kodiak, she received a thorough overhaul at Puget Sound Navy Yard.
www.vpnavy.com /usscasco_1941.html   (676 words)

  
 Frank P. Abbott, Veteran of the USS West Virginia (BB-48)
He was then transferred to the USS West Virginia on June 20, 1942, as salvage crew to clean and remove paint and asbestos.
He returned to Bremerton, WA, Navy Yard to rebuild, then returned to sea and combat after she was rebuilt.
Met his wife in Bremerton, WA, while serving in the West Virginia, and has four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
www.usswestvirginia.org /veterans/a/abbott.htm   (167 words)

  
 kitsap
Among them was my father’s decision to marry again between the time he entered the Navy and the time he was due to ship out on the U.S.S. Sperry, a submarine tender operating in the Pacific.
Dad was reputed to be at Bremerton Navy Yard, soon to sail and we were going to meet him.
We made believe that it was a Navy truck and we were sailors enroute to somewhere.
www.operator-98.com /edsattic/kitsap.htm   (1430 words)

  
 US People--Munier, Omah M., Chief Yeoman (F), USNRF
Who worked at the Naval Training Station, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during World War I. Identifications are provided in Photo # NH 72831 (Complete Caption).
Sent to Yeoman 1st Class (F) Omah Margaret Munier on 14 February 1919, informing her of the results of the Yeoman (Female) advancement examinations held on 28 January 1919 and of her advancement in rate as of 1 February 1919.
She was serving at the Receiving Ship, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, from 4 May 1918 to 10 August 1919.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-m/o-munier.htm   (331 words)

  
 Official Biography for James S. Blais
He was a member of the Basic School Class of the same year and stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
While at the University, he was an honor graduate in the Army ROTC, was elected Student Body President and chosen for membership in the Friars, the Seniors Men's Honorary.
After a few weeks at the west coast Bremerton Navy Yard, he received orders to board the old transport Chaumont to join the 2nd Marine Brigade about to leave San Diego with the 6th Marines bound for China.
www.usmc.mil /genbios2.nsf/biographies/D32A2473ADF0601385256A4000718772?opendocument   (776 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Monssen (DD-436)
USS Monssen, a 1620-ton Gleaves class destroyer, was built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.
She was commissioned in March 1941 and served in the Atlantic from June 1941 until March 1942.
That night, she was part of a cruiser-destroyer force ordered to block a Japanese attempt to bombard U.S. positions ashore.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd436.htm   (785 words)

  
 monssen
The first Monssen (DD -436) was laid down 12 July 1939, by Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; launched 16 May 1940, sponsored by Mrs.
For the next 5 months she operated in the northwestern Atlantic, from the coast of New England and the Maritime Provinces to Iceland, on neutrality patrol.
Her escort and patrol duties changed from neutral to belligerent 7 December 1941, continuing until 9 February 1942 when she entered the Boston Navy Yard for overhaul in preparation for her transfer to the Pacific Fleet.
www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Barracks/1041/monssen.html   (913 words)

  
 Super 8 Bremerton Motel - Reservations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This hotel is two miles west of downtown Bremerton and eight miles from the Bremerton National Airport.
Bremerton National Airport (PWT) : Approximate driving time is 16 minutes and distance is eight miles.
Extra person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
www.hotels.net /bremerton/super-8-motel-bremerton-459909.htm   (299 words)

  
 Eyeballing the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard/Naval Station Bremerton
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) is comprised of 179 acres of property bordered on the south by Sinclair Inlet, on the west by Naval Station Bremerton, and on the north and east perimeters by the City of Bremerton.
During World War I, the Navy Yard constructed ships, including 25 subchasers, seven submarines, two minesweepers, seven sea-going tugs, and two ammunition ships, as well as 1,700 small boats.
The Shipyard is proud of its history as a naval presence on the West Coast since 1891 and of its current status as a world class maintenance facility for the U.S. Navy.
www.eyeball-series.org /puget-eyeball.htm   (362 words)

  
 Military Forts
Fort Casey and Fort Flagler, located across from each other at the northern end of Puget Sound, protected the Bremerton Navy Yard and Puget Sound from hostile ships.
Fort Worden, acquired by the Commission in 1964, completed the "triangle of fire." Fort Ward, acquired in 1921, is located on Rich Passage near the Bremerton Navy Yard.
This fort provided a second line of defense for the yard should the more northerly forts fail to stop the enemy.
www.usgennet.org /usa/wa/county/kitsap/forts.html   (350 words)

  
 U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Saratoga (CV 3)
She hurriedly got underway the following day as the nucleus of a third carrier force [ Lexington and USS Enterprise (CV 6) were already at sea], carrying Marine aircraft intended to reinforce the vulnerable garrison on Wake Island.
Saratoga arrived at Bremerton, Wash., on 10 June 1944 and was under repair there through the summer.
Salvage efforts were prevented by radioactivity, and seven and one-half hours after the blast, with her funnel collapsed across her deck, Saratog a slipped beneath the surface of the lagoon.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv03-saratoga/cv03-saratoga.html   (3007 words)

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