USS Abraham Lincoln Shifts Homeport to Bremerton for Extended Drydock Overhaul
After a ten-month deployment, the USS Abraham Lincoln is leaving San Diego for Bremerton, Washington, where it will undergo a lengthy dry-dock repair and become permanently homeported.
The Nimitz-class supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) completed a ten-month combat deployment that began last November and docked in San Diego in October 2026. It will now head to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, for a Drydocking Planned Incremental Availability that may extend for up to a year and a half. The U.S. Navy announced that this relocation constitutes a permanent change of station for both the vessel and its personnel, shifting the carrier’s homeport to Naval Base Kitsap in the Pacific Northwest.
Admiral Daryl Caudle first suggested the shift during a June visit to the base, and the ship will join USS Ronald Reagan there. While the Abraham Lincoln will no longer be based in San Diego, the West Coast fleet remains robust with USS Carl Vinson and USS Theodore Roosevelt still homeported there. The move aligns with the Navy’s strategy of strategically dispersing its capital ships and utilizes the only West Coast facility capable of servicing Nimitz-class carriers.
Why it matters
The relocation redistributes a key carrier, affecting U.S. naval force posture on the West Coast and Pacific Northwest.
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