Naval Base Kitsap is a U.S. Navy base located on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. It was created in 2004 by merging the former Naval Station Bremerton with Naval Submarine Base Bangor. The Mission of Naval Base Kitsap is to serve as the home base for the Navy’s fleet throughout West Puget Sound and to provide base operating services, including support for both surface ships and Fleet Ballistic Missile and other nuclear submarines having their home ports at Bremerton and Bangor.
The Naval Base Kitsap also provides service, programs, and facilities to meet the needs of their hosted combat commands, tenant activities, ships' crews, and civilian employees. Naval Base Kitsap is the largest naval organization in Navy Region Northwest, and it is composed of installations at Bremerton, Bangor, and Keyport, Washington. Naval Base Kitsap was the recipient of the 2005 Commander in Chief's Award for Installation Excellence - the Best Base in the U.S. Navy.[1]
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Bangor Annex
The Naval Support Base Bangor's naval history began in 1942 when it became a site for shipping ammunition to the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. For an expansion and to establish a permanent naval base, the U.S. Navy purchased 7,676 acres (3100 hectares) of land on the Hood Canal near the town of Bangor for approximately $18.7 million. The U.S. Naval ammunition magazine was established on June 5, 1944, for its construction, and it began operations in January 1945.
Beginning in World War II, and through the Korean War and the Vietnam War, until January 1973, the Bangor Annex continued its service as a U.S. Navy Ammunition Depot responsible for shipping conventional weapons abroad.
In 1973, the Navy announced the selection of the Bangor base as the home port for the first squadron of Ohio-class Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines. On February 1, 1977, the Trident Submarine Base was officially activated. Naval Base Kitsap includes the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific which provides maintenance, spare parts, and spare nuclear warhead storage the Trident ballistic missiles that are carried by the nuclear submarines.
This Trident submarine base is the sole one for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with the Trident submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet being the only other one.
Bremerton Annex
Warships and Submarines Based Here
(as of May 2007)
Bangor
- USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730)
- USS Alabama (SSBN-731)
- USS Nevada (SSBN-733)
- USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735)
- USS Kentucky (SSBN-737)
- USS Nebraska (SSBN-739)
- USS Maine (SSBN-741)
- USS Louisiana (SSBN-743)
- USS Ohio (SSGN-726)
- USS Michigan (SSGN-727)
- USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)
Bremerton
- USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
- USS Seawolf (SSN-21)
- USS Connecticut (SSN-22)
- USS Emory S. Land (AS-39)
References
- ^ Naval Base Kitsap - About > Mission, https://cnic.navy.mil/Kitsap/AboutCNIC/NavyRegions/index.htm, retrieved 2009-06-10
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Naval Base Kitsap |
- NB Kitsap Web site
- globalsecurity.org: Bangor
- globalsecurity.org: Bremerton
- Twelve Arrests, But No Violence at Bangor Anti-Nuclear Protest
Coordinates: 47°43′14″N 122°42′47″W / 47.72056°N 122.71306°W
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