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USS Ash, a net laying ship that worked at Pearl Harbor in the 1940s. A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship. A net layer's primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-submarine nets or anti torpedo nets.
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
A vessel designed or equipped to deploy (or "lay") mines. minesweeper A vessel designed or equipped to clear areas of water of mines without necessarily detecting them first. It differs from a minehunter, which is designed or equipped to detect and destroy individual mines. misstay To be "in irons" (i.e. to lose forward momentum) when changing ...
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USS Suncook (YN-99/AN-80) was a Cohoes-class net laying ship which was assigned to protect United States Navy ships and harbors during World War II with her anti-submarine nets. Her World War II career was short lived; however, after decommissioning, she was reactivated in 1962 for use as a research ship for the U.S. Bureau of Mines , where she ...
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She conducted similar operations in 1950., with time out in June of that year for laying a light indicator net during Operation Martex. After an overhaul at the Charleston Naval Shipyard ( South Carolina ) from July to September 1950, Yazoo trained out of Norfolk, Virginia , before she resumed extensive work with nets off Newport.
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.