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"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans
United States Sixth Fleet (HQ Naples, Italy) – Europe, including Mediterranean Sea & Black Sea. United States Seventh Fleet (HQ Yokosuka , Japan) – West Pacific United States Tenth Fleet (HQ Fort Meade , Maryland ) – Reactivated as Fleet Cyber Command.
The ship was designated as Jotvingis (N42) and has been serving as a command-and-supply ship. In the period spanning 2008–2016 the Naval Forces bought four Flyvefisken-class patrol vessels from Denmark which received the names P11 Žemaitis, P12 Dzūkas, P14 Aukštaitis and P15 Sėlis.
The modern Royal Naval Reserve has fifteen Units (with 3 satellite units). These are: HMS Calliope, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England; HMS Cambria, Cardiff, Wales Tawe Division (Swansea) HMS Ceres, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England; HMS Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland [15] HMS Eaglet, Liverpool, England
Lists of military units and formations of World War II (60 P) Pages in category "Lists of military units and formations" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
Grouping combatant ships is as old as navies. Assemblies of warships was have been given the name fleets, divisions, or on the smaller scale, squadrons, and flotillas. The term "task force" was popularized by the United States Navy in the course of the Second World War. [2]
The Polish Navy (Polish: Marynarka Wojenna, lit. 'War Navy'; often abbreviated to Marynarka) is the naval branch of the Polish Armed Forces.The Polish Navy consists of 46 ships and about 12,000 commissioned and enlisted personnel.