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2. FV Alaska Ranger - Wikipedia

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   However, United Marine Shipbuilding changed the ship from an oil well service vessel to a fishing vessel in 1988. The changes raised the waterline 2.5 feet. This put the rudder trunk openings below the water line. The ceiling of the rudder room was only 20 inches above the trunk openings.

3. 12-inch/50-caliber Mark 8 gun - Wikipedia

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   The 12"/50 caliber gun Mark 8 was a US naval gun mounted on the Alaska-class cruiser. The gun, like the "large cruiser" that mounted it, was intended to fill the gap between US "heavy cruisers" (6-8") and US battleships (14-16"). The name describes the size of the shells, 12 inches in diameter, and the length of the bore in calibers (50 bore ...

4. HMS Dreadnought (1906) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power.The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts, as well as the class of ships named after her.

5. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer - Wikipedia

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   An AMDR with a mid-diameter of 22 feet (6.7 m) had been proposed for CG(X), while the DDG 51 Flight III design could carry an AMDR with a mid-diameter of only 14 feet (4.3 m). [151] The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the design would be "at best marginally effective" because of the "now-shrunken radar".

6. USS Hornet (CV-8) - Wikipedia

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   USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid.

7. List of monitors of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   The Lord Clive-class monitors, sometimes referred to as the General Wolfe-class, were built to meet the need for more shore bombardment ships, using twin 12-inch (305 mm) gun turrets taken from decommissioned Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleships.