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2. USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) - Wikipedia

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   6 × .50 caliber M2HB machine guns. USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry -class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She is the second US Navy ship to be named for Carter Hall, an estate near Winchester, Virginia, built in the 1790s. Carter Hall was laid down on 11 November 1991 by the Avondale Shipyards at New Orleans, Louisiana.

3. USS Germantown (LSD-42) - Wikipedia

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   USS Germantown (LSD-42) is the second Whidbey Island -class dock landing ship in the United States Navy. She is the second navy ship named after the Revolutionary War Battle of Germantown. Germantown was the first ship in the class to serve in the Pacific. The amphibious ship 's mission is to project power ashore by transporting and launching ...

4. Shippingport (ARDM-4) - Wikipedia

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   96 ft (29.3 m) Propulsion. None. Shippingport (ARDM-4) is an ARDM-4 -class United States Navy Medium Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock. She is one of the Navy's two medium auxiliary repair dry docks, and was the first floating dry dock built for the US Navy since World War II. [ 1] Laid down in 1977, delivered and placed in service on 4 January 1979 ...

5. USS ABSD-3 - Wikipedia

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   USS ABSD-3 at Guam, empty. USS AFDB-3 (ABSD-3) with rail traveling 15-ton crane, in Guam. ABSD-3 is an advanced base sectional dock, constructed of nine advance base dock (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II. ABSD-3 was delivered to the US Navy in April 1944, and was commissioned on 27 October 1944.

6. Dennis Rader - Wikipedia

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   Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for " bind, torture, kill "), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women.

7. TID-class tug - Wikipedia

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   TID-class tug. assembly and fitting out by Richard Dunston Ltd., (Thorne and Hessle), William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland. TID was a standardized British design for a tugboat drawn up and built during the Second World War. One hundred and eighty two (TID-1 to TID-12 and TID-14 to TID-183) were built for the Ministry of War ...

8. Goodyear Airdock - Wikipedia

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   1929/30. Architect. Karl Arnstein, Paul K. Helma, Wilbur J. Watson. NRHP reference No. 73002259 [1] Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973. The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without interior supports.

9. Singapore strategy - Wikipedia

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   Singapore strategy. HMS Repulse leads her sister ship HMS Renown and other Royal Navy capital ships during manoeuvres in the 1920s. The Singapore strategy was a naval defence policy of the United Kingdom that evolved in a series of war plans from 1919 to 1941. It aimed to deter aggression by Japan by providing a base for a fleet of the Royal ...