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 upon the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is house to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is connected 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 land was made manageable for non-Native pact by the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. Bremerton was planned by German immigrant and Seattle opportunist William Bremer in 1891. In that year, Navy Lieutenant Ambrose Barkley Wyckoff purchased approximately 190 acres (77 ha) of marina land on Sinclair Inlet. This house was owned by the Bremer family. Three years earlier, a U.S. Navy commission distinct 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 verify a shipyard. Recognizing the large number of workers such a knack would employ, Bremer and his business partner in crime and brother-in-law, Henry Hensel, purchased the undeveloped land close Point Turner at the inflated price of $200 per acre. In April 1891, Bremer established for the sale of 190 acres (0.77 km²) to the Navy at $50 per acre. This estate became part 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 other city soon faced a major crisis, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Darling moved everything repair perform to the Mare Island Navy Yard in California in November 1902. Darling cited reports from commanders that the Bremerton port was rife taking into consideration prostitution, opium houses and frequent strongarmed robberies of sailors. Politics were probably with at play, as local newspapers reported that the city’s immersion left the shipyard truly landlocked without room to expand. A disagreement ensued surrounded by Mayor Croxton, who wanted to shutter anything 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 everything liquor licenses in June 1904. With the ban, Darling reestablished the navy yard as a harbor of call. Saloons had begun to return to concern within two years, however.

In 1908, the city library and Union High School were received to relieve the intellectual needs of the 2,993 residents recorded in the 1910 U.S. Census. During World War I, submarine construction and the auxiliary of a third drydock caused the shipyard’s workforce to balloon to exceeding 4,000 employees. Growth due to the lawsuit effort and the 1918 annexation of the city of Manette, east of Bremerton upon 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 associated to Bremerton by the Manette Bridge, a 1,573-foot (479 m) bridge constructed in June 1930. Prior to this time, the vacation could unaided be made by ferry or a long vacation around Dyes Inlet through Chico, Silverdale, and Tracyton on mostly unimproved roads. This wooden bridge was replaced considering 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.