William Tripp

USS Bremerton (CA-130) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in April 1945. Although she arrived too late to see combat in World War II, Bremerton served actively during the Korean War, providing naval gunfire support for United Nations forces and participating in key operations along the Korean Peninsula. After Korea, she was involved in various peacetime exercises and training missions in the Pacific. The ship was decommissioned in 1960 and remained in reserve until being stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1973.