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net laying ship. Also net layer, net tender, gate ship, or boom defence vessel. A type of naval auxiliary ship equipped for and primarily tasked with laying torpedo net s or anti-submarine net s to protect individual ships at anchor, harbors, or other anchorages from torpedo attack and intrusions by submarines. net tender An alternative term ...
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
USS Ash, a net laying ship that worked at Pearl Harbor in the 1940s. A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship. A net layer's primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-submarine nets or anti torpedo nets.
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as net laying boat—birds Tsubame (燕) Barn swallow; Auxiliary ships. Collier, oiler, icebreaker, freighter, repair ship, self-propelled target ship, munition ship—cape, point, strait, channel, bay, port Wakamiya (若宮) Cape Wakamiya; her first classification was transport ship. Cape Wakamiya (Wakamiya-zaki) is in Wakamiya Island, Oki Islands
HMS Guardian was a net laying ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1962.She was also equipped for target towing and gunnery photography. [4] A second net-layer, HMS Protector, was built to a modified design.
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The Aloe-class net laying ships were a class of thirty-two steel-hulled net laying ships built prior to the US entry into World War II. The lead ship, USS Aloe , was laid down in October 1940 and launched the following January; the final member, USS Yew , was launched in October 1941.