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Commencement Bay is a bay of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. The city of Tacoma is located on the bay, with the Port of Tacoma occupying the southeastern end. A line drawn from Point Defiance in the southwest to Browns Point in the northeast serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound.
All of the Commencement Bay-class escort carriers that were laid down were built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation (a.k.a. Todd Pacific Shipyards) in the Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington yard, in addition to the planned (but unnamed) ships CVE-128 through CVE-131.
Commencement Bay The Thea Foss Waterway , [ 1 ] formerly the City Waterway , [ 2 ] is a north–south inlet of Commencement Bay separating downtown Tacoma, Washington , from the Port of Tacoma .
A private fireworks show will send sparks of light over Commencement Bay in Tacoma on Saturday. The event is anticipated to begin around 9 p.m. at the mouth of Commencement Bay, halfway between ...
The Fourth of July in Tacoma kicked off with smoke in Commencement Bay — and not from fireworks. Two people were rescued from the water near Tyee Marina this morning after their boat went up in ...
Commencement Bay, Near Shore/Tide Flats: Pierce: At the Asarco smelter, metals including arsenic, cadmium, copper and lead were released into the soil, air and bay and metals from slag have migrated to surface and groundwater. Soil in the Ruston/North Tacoma study area is contaminated by arsenic and lead.
Prior to the establishment of the Port of Tacoma, much of Tacoma's shipping activity took place along Ruston Way and along the mouth of the Thea Foss Waterway, which opens into Commencement Bay and the larger Puget Sound. Tacoma's role as a shipping center dates to 1853, when the first cargo of lumber was shipped to San Francisco. [2]
The Tacoma Fault was first identified by Gower, Yount & Crosson (1985) as a gravitational anomaly ("structure K") running east across the northern tip of Case and Carr Inlets, then southeast under Commencement Bay and towards the town of Puyallup.