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On September 1, 1983, while alternating with the Nantucket II the WLV-612 served as a radar and security-communications platform off of the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, US Vice President George H. W. Bush was on board when he learned the Soviet Union had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 while passing through Soviet Airspace near ...
The ship is also fitted with Raytheon AN/SPS-49(V)5 long-range active air search radar operating at C and D bands, Ericsson HC150 Sea Giraffe medium-range air and surface search radar operating at G and H bands, and Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I-band navigation radar. The sonar suite includes the CANTASS Canadian Towed Array and GD-C AN/SQS-510 ...
Ship Laid down Launched Delivered Status Flight I USNS Spearhead (T-EPF-1) 22 July 2010 12 September 2011 5 December 2012 Currently inactive [61] USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF-2) 8 November 2011 1 October 2012 6 June 2013 Currently inactive [62] USNS Millinocket (T-EPF-3) 3 May 2012 5 June 2013 21 March 2014 In service [63] [64] [65]
On October 5 [5] or October 6, [6] [7] [8] 1848 the Pacific Mail's first of these steamers, the SS California, departed from New York City to run service from Panama to the West Coast, traveling around Cape Horn to San Francisco—coincidentally, the California Gold Rush began in January of that year, and the steamer—and its sisters, Oregon ...
The ship was initially chartered by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as the MSC Fabiola. From 2019 onwards the ship was chartered to Hapag-Lloyd as the Madrid Express. In 2012 the MSC Fabiola became the largest container ship to ever dock in North America, and the largest ship to enter the San Francisco Bay. [3] [4]
In 1977 The US Maritime Subsidy Board approved the application of Pacific Far East Line, Inc. (PFEL) for being granted a construction-differential subsidy (CDS) for financing the reconstruction of four LASH barge carriers into full container ships at Bethlehem Steel's San Francisco shipyard at a cost of U$5 millions each. The four ships were ...
The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon ...
Thirteen installations in the San Francisco area beyond Fort Mason were part of the San Francisco POE. [6] The port used 20 piers with 43 berths for oceangoing ships and had 2,867,000 sq ft (266,353.0 m 2) of warehouse space, 1,984,000 sq ft (184,319.6 m 2) transit shed space and 7,640,000 sq ft (709,779.2 m 2) of open space. The port had ...