Elaine Helm and Krista J. Kapralos have the story in the Everett
Herald:
EVERETT — The only aircraft carrier ever to call Everett home will leave in 2013 and likely be replaced by another ship in the same class.
The USS Abraham Lincoln is scheduled for mid-life refueling of its nuclear reactors. That job is expected to take nearly three years at a shipyard in Norfolk, Va.
The USS Nimitz will head from San Diego to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton in December 2010 and will move to Everett in place of the Lincoln, according to information from U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair.
For a brief period in 2011 and 2012, the Puget Sound area will host three aircraft carriers: the Lincoln, the Nimitz and the USS John C. Stennis. The Bremerton-based Stennis pulled into Everett on Monday afternoon on a brief stop as its crew wraps up a six-month deployment.
