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 combined to downtown Seattle by two ferries: a 60-minute ferry that carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers, and a 28-minute Fast Ferry that carries passengers and a limited number of bicycles.

Bremerton is within the historical territory of the Suquamish people. The land was made easy to attain to for non-Native pact by the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. Bremerton was planned by German immigrant and Seattle buccaneer William Bremer in 1891. In that year, Navy Lieutenant Ambrose Barkley Wyckoff purchased nearly 190 acres (77 ha) of waterfront land upon Sinclair Inlet. This home was owned by the Bremer family. Three years earlier, a U.S. Navy commission certain 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 pronounce a shipyard. Recognizing the large number of workers such a aptitude 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 established for the sale of 190 acres (0.77 km²) to the Navy at $50 per acre. This estate became allowance 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 supplementary 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 marina was rife in imitation of prostitution, opium houses and frequent strongarmed robberies of sailors. Politics were probably in addition to at play, as local newspapers reported that the city’s immersion left the shipyard in fact landlocked without room to expand. A squabble ensued in the company 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 port of call. Saloons had begun to reward to concern within two years, however.

In 1908, the city library and Union High School were normal to assist the studious needs of the 2,993 residents recorded in the 1910 U.S. Census. During World War I, submarine construction and the adjunct of a third drydock caused the shipyard’s workforce to balloon to more than 4,000 employees. Growth due to the exploit 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 adjacent to city to the south in 1927. The population reached 10,170 in 1930.

Manette was related to Bremerton by the Manette Bridge, a 1,573-foot (479 m) bridge constructed in June 1930. Prior to this time, the trip could abandoned be made by ferry or a long vacation around Dyes Inlet through Chico, Silverdale, and Tracyton upon mostly unimproved roads. This wooden bridge was replaced taking into account a real and steel structure in October 1949. It was replaced by the other 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 bright of lifting 250 tons and continues to dominate the Bremerton skyline.