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The Project 633 class (known in the West by its NATO reporting name as the Romeo class) is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built between 1957 and 1961. A Chinese variant, Type 033 , was built in China from 1962 to 1984.
USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
Annapolis Yacht Yard was a major builder of sub chasers and PT boats during World War II.In 1947, after the death of Chris Nelson, Annapolis Yacht Yard sold to John Trumpy & Sons. [1]
LCM(3) as a top speed of 8 knots (9.2 mph) full and 11 knots (13 mph) lite. Armed with two .50-cal M2 Browning machine guns , manned by a crew of 4. The cargo hold has a max capacity of one 30-ton tank (e.g. M4 Sherman ) or 60 troops, or 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) of cargo.
She was commissioned into the US Navy as USS SC-718 on 25 May 1943. [ 2 ] In August 1943 US Admiral Harold R. Stark , commander of US Naval Forces Europe , ordered SC-718 and two other SC-class subchasers - SC-683 and SC-1061 - to be transferred to Britain.
US Navy NH 96504 a 63 ft (19 m) air-sea rescue boat built by Fellows & Stewart US Navy submarine chaser SC-1011 built by Fellows & Stewart, off Terminal Island in July 1943. Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island's Pier 206.
Transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 9 January 1946, SC-715 was renamed USCGC Air Killdeer. [2] [3] [5] In this capacity she was used in offshore rescue duties.She was one of 70 such vessels transferred to the coastguard to cope with the problem of large numbers of aviation accidents as troops and personnel were returned to the United States after the war, in Operation Magic Carpet. [6]
USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the eighth state.She was also the first American dreadnought; though she did not incorporate turbine propulsion like HMS Dreadnought, South Carolina ' s design included revolutionary aspects as well, primarily the superfiring arrangement of ...