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0.7645549 m 3. Imperial and US customary. 27 ft 3. A cubic yard (symbol yd3) [1] is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non- SI non- metric) unit of volume, used in Canada and the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 meters) in length.
The 154-foot (47 m) 240-ton vessels are staffed by a mixed-sex crew of 22, and are armed with a remote-operated Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm autocannon and four .50 caliber crew-served Browning M2 machine guns. These vessels can stern launch and retrieve a high speed pursuit boat, without coming to a stop. They were designed for missions of five days.
The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.
The Polar Security Cutter Program is a program to recapitalize the United States Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star and the medium icebreaker USCGC Healy, with three new multi-mission vessels referred to as Polar Security Cutters (PSC). These heavy polar icebreakers will allow ...
Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #472 on Wednesday, September 25, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Wednesday, September 25, 2024 The New York Times
64,825 lb (32.413 short tons) Adhesive weight: 259,300 lb (129.7 short tons) Loco weight: 460,000 lb (230 short tons) Tender weight: 364,100 lb (182.1 short tons) Total weight: 824,100 lb (412.1 short tons) Fuel type: Coal (Will soon be converted to oil from a $200,000 proposal as of March 11, 2021) Fuel capacity: 50,000 lb (25 short tons ...
hundredweight. The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and United States customary unit of weight or mass. Its value differs between the United States customary and British imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the short and long ...
Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 grams, 1 milligram = 0.001 grams) and are thus not listed in this article. Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre).