Kitsap County residents — many of them Navy veterans — lined both sides of the Sinclair Inlet and Rich Passage as the USS Ranger left Bremerton for the final time.

People were lined up as far as Manchester State Park and Manchester Dock for their last view of the historic aircraft carrier

Naval Sea Systems Command said the mothballed aircraft carrier will be towed out of Puget Sound on March 6 on its way to be scrapped in Texas, reported the Navy Times.

It will take five months to complete a 16,000-mile trip around South America. The Ranger won’t fit through the Panama Canal.

The Ranger was commissioned in 1957 and was active during the Vietnam War and also deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm, the first Persian Gulf War, according to the Navy Times.

The carrier was decommissioned in 1993 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.