Navy Yard Expansion Promises Jobs Boost
Extensive repairs planned for three major naval vessels at Bremerton are expected to increase the local workforce significantly by mid-summer.
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Three vessels of the United States Navy will undergo extensive repairs this summer at the navy yard at Bremerton. This may require an increase of the working force at the yard from its present number of 1,100 to 1,900 men. The first-class cruiser Albany is on the way across the Pacific to undergo a thorough overhauling and rebuilding. The gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg, both now on the China station, also have been ordered to Bremerton for extensive repairs. The Vicksburg will be remembered for her role last February, when her commander refused to join with the commanders of other foreign warships at Chemulpo, Korea, in an attempt to protect Russian warships from the Japanese fleet.
“This may require an increase of the working force at the yard from its present number of 1,100 to 1,900 men.”
The Bremerton Navy Yard remains a central economic engine for the Kitsap Peninsula today. The story reflects the historic volatility of defense-sector employment, which still dominates the region's labor and housing cycles.
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