Just 30 years old, Lafever explained that the Port of Everett sold the Navy the land for the base back in the 1980s ... support to have this new class of ship homeported in Everett,” said ...

In 2012, the Nimitz moved again to Naval Station Everett in Washington ... through sister carriers and the new Gerald R. Ford-class ships. The mighty U.S. aircraft carriers, often called floating ...