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A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
Freedom of navigation as a legal and normative concept has developed only relatively recently. Until the early modern period, international maritime law was governed by customs that differed across countries’ legal systems and were only sometimes codified, as for example in the 14th-century Crown of Aragon Consulate of the Sea (Spanish: Consulado del mar; Italian: Consolato del mare; also ...
National Museum of the United States Navy: Y District of Columbia: Washington, DC: Naval History & Heritage Command: District of Columbia: Washington, DC: Navy Art Collection: Florida: Apalachicola: Apalachicola Maritime Museum: Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine: Florida: Daytona Beach: Daytona Maritime Museum: Florida: DeLand
Lifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in two articles published in 1974, building on his earlier 1968 article detailing "The tragedy of the commons". Hardin's 1974 metaphor describes a lifeboat bearing fifty people with room for ten more. The lifeboat is in an ocean surrounded by a ...
The Navy shut off the Red Hill well, but fuel made its way into the Navy’s water system. Several families affected by the spill took the U.S. government to court this summer as part of a mass ...
Ancient navies had a large impact on the navies of today. The outcomes of battles between ancient navies have been studied by the military to learn tactics that would help in their conquests. The ships that these civilizations created were what many ship designs were based on and allowed the vessels to become better built.
The Navy, along with the VA and California’s health and toxicity agencies, say the levels of contamination at the former shipyard are currently low and pose no public health hazards.
The British Reserve Fleet was a repository for British decommissioned warships from about 1800 until 1960. [5]The United States National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF), consisted of about fifty World War II ships that were moored in Suisun Bay (Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet) near San Francisco since the 1950s or '60s. [6]