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On 1 June 1953 the ship was commissioned USS Neptune (ARC-2). [5] The ship's operations were classified so few specific ones are public. One was the 1962 connection of the array once terminating at Naval Facility Cape May to Naval Facility Lewes necessitated by destruction of the Cape May shore station in the "Ash Wednesday" Storm. [9] [11] [12 ...
USS Neptune was a large steamer, with powerful guns and a large crew, acquired by the United States Navy for service with the Union Navy during the American Civil War.She served the Navy primarily, as an armed escort vessel in the West Indies for Union Navy and commercial ships traveling through that area on their way to and from California.
USS Neptune has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: USS Clyde (1863), a 294-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was briefly named Neptune when first commissioned; USS Neptune (1863), a 1,244-ton screw steamship, served during the American Civil War; USS Manhattan (1863), a monitor in commission from 1864 to 1877 ...
Neptune (1796 EIC ship), a 1468-ton (bm) East Indiaman that made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) Neptune (1797 ship) was the first ship built in Quebec after the British occupation. She sailed to England where she became a West Indiaman. A French privateer captured her in 1809. Neptune (1805 ship) was launched as a West ...
USS Neptune in Saint-Nazaire in June 1917. In 1919, following three voyages to Guantanamo Bay to supply naval forces at the training base there, the collier departed Norfolk on 3 October for the Pacific, calling en route at the Panama Canal Zone , Nicaragua , and Honduras with Marines and cargo and arriving at San Diego on 20 October.
The other ship was the William H. G. Bullard, later USS Neptune, which Myer later joined in naval service. The new ship was laid up in 1946 until reactivated by the Army in 1952 for service out of Seattle, Washington maintaining the Alaska Communications System that served civilian as well as military needs.
Operation Neptune, a phase of the European Theatre of World War II, was an undertaking by the Allies to invade the Northern coast of Nazi-occupied France. Following is a list of Allied vessels that took part in the operation.
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...