1916, and becomes the only daily newspaper currently owned by the company. Sound also acquires the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune (founded 1905), in north central Washington near the Canadian border. As part of that transaction, the Wenatchee Business Journal is handed off to another local ...
The keel of the destroyer Shields was laid on 10 August 1943 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton Washington. Sponsored by First Lieutenant Margaret Shields Farr WAC the great-granddaughter of Purser Shields the destroyer was launched on 25 September 1944 and commissioned on 8 February 1945 Comma...
Puget Sound (AD-38), the second of the AD-37 class destroyer tenders, was laid down 15 February 1965 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash.; launched 16 September 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Gale McGee, wife of the Senior United States Senator from Wyoming; and commissioned 27 April...
Gurnard was decommissioned on 28 April 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, was completed on 15 October 1997....
The "mothballed" heavy cruiser Canberra was redesignated CAG-2 in early January 1952. She was subsequently towed from Bremerton, Washington, to Camden, New Jersey, to begin an extensive conversion to a guided missile heavy cruiser. This work, which took some four years, significantly changed th...
Five fast carriers and four CVEs suffered damage, with Monterey (CVL-26) forced to Bremerton, Washington, for repairs after a serious fire on the hangar deck. Nine other ships incurred major damage; six suffered lesser damage. More than one hundred aircraft were destroyed or badly damaged at...
In December, 1979, the ship was towed to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, and placed in the mothball fleet. It remained there until 1992 when it was towed to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia, California. After hull repairs at Richmond, California, the ship was mo...
Woodrow Wilson was deactivated in September 1993. She was decommissioned on 1 September 1994 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Ex-Woodrow Wilson entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington, on 26 September 1997. Recycling of Ex-...
Five fast carriers and four CVEs suffered damage, withMonterey(CVL-26) forced to Bremerton, Washington, for repairs after a serious fire on the hangar deck. Nine other ships incurred major damage; six suffered lesser damage. More than one hundred aircraft were destroyed or badly damaged at no...
before arriving at Bremerton Washington 15 April. Coral Sea was decommissioned for conversion 24 May 1957 and upon completion was recommissioned 25 January 1960 to rejoin the Fleet. During September 1960 she conducted training with her new air group along the west coast then sailed in September ...