page_title: SS Asbury Park
section_title: Puget Sound service
hierarchical_section_title: SS Asbury Park / Puget Sound service
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) preparing for dry docking and repairs at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington (USA), on 7 June 1945. The ship appears to be offloading ammunition at the stern, while crew members are boarding the ferry City of Sacramento at the bow. The forward elevator was destroyed in the Kamikaze attack on 14 May 1945. Note that the forward hull number on the flight deck was painted so it was readable by planes approaching from the bow. This feature was discontinued, because it led to confusion with USS Essex (CV-9).
context_page_description: Asbury Park was a high-speed coastal steamer built in Philadelphia, and intended to transport well-to-do persons from New York to summer homes on the New Jersey shore. This vessel was sold to West Coast interests in 1918, and later converted to an automobile ferry, serving on various routes San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound and British Columbia. This vessel was known by a number of other names, including City of Sacramento, Kahloke, Langdale Queen, and Lady Grace.
context_section_description: To meet the rising demand for ferry capacity on the Seattle-Bremerton route, the vessel was purchased by Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSN) in 1941, but was not brought north to Puget Sound until May 1944.   The delay had been caused by the Navy's having requisitioned the ship to transport workers to and from navy shipyards.
caption: The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise unloading her sailors onto the City of Sacramento at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in June 1945. This was right after the aircraft carrier was nearly destroyed by a kamikaze encounter a month earlier off Okinawa.
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