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The Cyclone-class patrol ships are a class of coastal patrol boats, formerly in service with the United States Navy. Most of these ships, named for weather phenomenae, were launched between 1992 and 1994. The primary mission of these ships is coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance, an important aspect of littoral operations outlined in ...
From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger. A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval ...
2 × twin .50 caliber machine guns. The second USS Grand Rapids (PGM-98/PG-98) was an Asheville -class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. On 13 June 1968, the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington laid down Grand Rapids, the eleventh Asheville -class gunboat built by Tacoma. In August 1968, however, the Tacoma ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
USS PC-457, sunk in collision 14 August 1941. USS PC-458, later PYc-49. USS PC-459, later PY-18. USS PC-460, later PYc-50. USS PC-509, later PYc-51. USS PC-510, later YP-105. USS PC-523, later YP-77. The following submarine chasers were 173/174 feet long and used the PC designation. The large missing sections of these numbers for the most part ...
USCGC Dorado (WPB-87306) was the sixth cutter of the Marine Protector-class patrol boats. Dorado was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and commissioned in April 1999 and decommissioned on 10 March 2021. [3] Dorado's home port was in Crescent City, California and served under Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay in the Eleventh Coast ...
Adrias (L67) (1942–1945) – The ex- HMS Border was seriously damaged by mines on October 22, 1943. Although the ship survived, it was not fully repaired and was decommissioned in 1945. Aigaion (L95) (1946–1959) – The ex- HMS Lauderdale. Astings (1946–1963) – The ex-HMS Catterick, named after Frank Abney Hastings.
United States Navy torpedo retrievers. A Mark 48 exercise torpedo is hoisted off a Mark II 72' torpedo recovery boat in 1982. United States Navy submarines, surface ships, and aircraft launch torpedoes, missiles, and autonomous undersea vehicles as part of training exercises. Typically, these training munitions have no warhead and are recovered ...