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The boarding net was a rope net that could be raised from a ship's masts so that it encircled the vessel's deck. [1] A ship's captain could order the net deployed during battle if it became apparent that enemy naval infantry might attempt to capture his vessel through a boarding action; it might also be raised at night if the vessel was at anchor in unknown or hostile waters. [1]
Naval boarding is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel. The goal of boarding is to invade and overrun the enemy personnel on board in order to capture, sabotage, or destroy the enemy vessel.
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Armed boarding steamer – British vessels of similar purpose in First World War; Hired armed vessels – British vessels that performed convoy escort duties, anti-privateer patrols, and ran errands during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and earlier.
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A model of onboarding (adapted from Bauer & Erdogan, 2011) Onboarding or organizational socialization is the American term for the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.
The Eight Schools Association (ESA) is a group of large private college-preparatory boarding schools in the Northeastern United States.It was formally established in 2006, but has existed in some form since the 1973–74 school year.
Milton S. Hershey, creator of The Hershey Company, was a chocolate industrialist and had founded the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. [8] On November 15, 1909, [9] he and his wife, Catherine Hershey, signed over a 486-acre (1.97 km 2) piece of farmland, forming the Hershey Industrial School. [10]