{"id":501839,"date":"2026-10-20T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501839\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:12:09","slug":"uss-abraham-lincoln-leaving-san-diego-for-new-home-in-the-pacific-northwest-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501839\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Abraham Lincoln leaving San Diego for new home in the Pacific Northwest \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USS Abraham Lincoln, a well-known fixture in San Diego for the past six years and the subject of international headlines for its recent grueling, record-long deployment, is relocating to Bremerton, Wash., which is home to the only shipyard on the West Coast capable of repairing, servicing and upgrading aircraft carriers, the Navy said<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

The Navy had indicated months ago that the 36-year-old Lincoln would go to Bremerton for long-term dry dock work, but had not formally announced that the shift would be permanent.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegularly scheduled depot-level maintenance maximizes the lifespan of our Navy vessels and keeps our fleets lethal, modern, and ready to defend the nation,\u201d the Navy said in a statement, which did not indicate when the Lincoln will leave.<\/p>\n

Such moves are often years in the making, and it can take up to a year<\/a> to relocate a carrier\u2019s 3,200 sailors and roughly 1,800 family members, shifts that are heavily subsidized by the federal government.<\/p>\n

San Diego is home to two other carriers, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which recently left on deployment. The Navy has not said whether it will fill the Lincoln\u2019s berth with the USS Ronald Reagan, a Bremerton-based carrier that spent more than a decade in San Diego early in its history. The Reagan recently returned to service after a long maintenance period.<\/p>\n

The news comes less than two weeks after a massive crowd welcomed the Lincoln back to Naval Air Station North Island from a dangerous and controversial 322-day deployment.<\/p>\n

The Lincoln left San Diego in November for what was expected to be a routine seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific. But President Donald Trump diverted the carrier to the Middle East in January due to rising tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n

The following month, the Lincoln led the air attack at the start of the U.S.-Iran war, service that earned the flattop a lot of praise. But the mood quickly changed. The carrier was forced to go 265 straight days without a port visit because there wasn\u2019t a secure pier area where the ship would be safe from attack.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran had heavily damaged U.S. logistics centers in Bahrain, disrupting the flow of food and other supplies to the Lincoln and its escort ships. Many people who have family members on the ship publicly said that the crew was suffering from enormous stress, and that some had attempted suicide.<\/p>\n

The Navy downplayed the subject of suicides but later said that eight sailors in the Lincoln carrier strike group had attempted suicide.<\/p>\n

The carrier finally made a port call on Sept. 2 when it docked in Thailand, its hull visibly\u00a0spotted with heavy rust. Such corrosion is common during a long deployment. But it raised questions among the public about the condition of the carrier.<\/p>\n

Such concerns seemed to melt away when the Lincoln docked at Coronado on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

The ship wasn\u2019t accustomed to such attention. Since moving to San Diego in January 2020, it has quietly carried out a series of deployments to the Indo-Pacific and Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Abraham Lincoln, a well-known fixture in San Diego for the past six years and the subject…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,5493,181,23,1703,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-501839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-coronado","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}