Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 37,729 at the 2010 census and an estimated 41,405 in 2019, making it the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is linked to downtown Seattle by two ferries: a 60-minute ferry that carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers, and a 28-minute quick Ferry that carries passengers and a limited number of bicycles.

Bremerton is within the historical territory of the Suquamish people. The home was made easy to pull off to for non-Native agreement by the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. Bremerton was planned by German immigrant and Seattle explorer William Bremer in 1891. In that year, Navy Lieutenant Ambrose Barkley Wyckoff purchased nearly 190 acres (77 ha) of dock land on Sinclair Inlet. This estate was owned by the Bremer family. Three years earlier, a U.S. Navy commission sure that Point Turner, between the protected waters of the Sinclair and Dyes inlets, would be the best site in the Pacific Northwest upon which to state a shipyard. Recognizing the large number of workers such a capacity would employ, Bremer and his business partner in crime and brother-in-law, Henry Hensel, purchased the undeveloped land near Point Turner at the inflated price of $200 per acre. In April 1891, Bremer settled for the sale of 190 acres (0.77 km²) to the Navy at $50 per acre. This home became allocation of the initial footprint of the Puget Sound Navy Yard.

Bremerton was incorporated upon October 15, 1901, with Alvyn Croxton serving as the city’s first mayor. Progress in the new city soon faced a major crisis, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Darling moved everything repair action to the Mare Island Navy Yard in California in November 1902. Darling cited reports from commanders that the Bremerton waterfront was rife in the same way as prostitution, opium houses and frequent strongarmed robberies of sailors. Politics were probably plus at play, as local newspapers reported that the city’s engagement left the shipyard in take aim of fact landlocked without room to expand. A difference of opinion ensued in the midst of Mayor Croxton, who wanted to shutter everything saloons in Bremerton, and three members of the city council, who attempted to block his efforts. Croxton eventually won out, and the council voted to revoke all liquor licenses in June 1904. With the ban, Darling reestablished the navy yard as a harbor of call. Saloons had begun to reward to thing within two years, however.

In 1908, the city library and Union High School were standard to help the literary needs of the 2,993 residents recorded in the 1910 U.S. Census. During World War I, submarine construction and the complement of a third drydock caused the shipyard’s workforce to balloon to more than 4,000 employees. Growth due to the case effort and the 1918 annexation of the city of Manette, east of Bremerton on the Port Washington Narrows, can be seen in the 1920 census, which reported a population of 8,918. Bremerton absorbed Charleston, its neighboring city to the south in 1927. The population reached 10,170 in 1930.

Manette was joined to Bremerton by the Manette Bridge, a 1,573-foot (479 m) bridge build up in June 1930. Prior to this time, the trip could lonely be made by ferry or a long trip around Dyes Inlet through Chico, Silverdale, and Tracyton on mostly unimproved roads. This wooden bridge was replaced like a concrete and steel structure in October 1949. It was replaced by the additional Manette Bridge in 2011. At the shipyard, the 250-foot tall (76 m) Hammerhead Crane No. 28 was completed in April 1933. One of the nation’s largest, it is adept of lifting 250 tons and continues to dominate the Bremerton skyline.