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USS Arlington (LPD-24), a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Arlington County, Virginia, the location of the Pentagon and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 77 during the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Like her sister ships, USS New York and Somerset, she is ...
Smack (ship) A smack near Brightlingsea. Calm in Gloucester Harbor, by Carlton Theodore Chapman, c. 1890, shows American fishing smacks (Brooklyn Museum). A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War.
Belem. (ship) Belem is a three-masted barque from France. She made her maiden voyage as a cargo ship in 1896, transporting sugar from the West Indies, cocoa, and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes, France.
The Austin class was a class of twelve amphibious transport dock ships in service with the United States Navy from 1965 to 2017. Note that the U.S. Naval Vessel Registry list separate Cleveland (seven built) and Trenton (two built) class ships, but most sources lists them as a single class. [1] Trenton was sold to India and is the only ship ...
Storis" is a Scandinavian word meaning "great ice." [1] On 10 June 1943, she began escorting convoy GS-24 from Narsarssuak to St. John's, Newfoundland, in company with the USCGC Mojave (flag), Tampa, Escanaba, and Algonquin, the convoy consisting of USAT Fairfax and USS Raritan. At 0510 on the 13th, dense black and yellow smoke was reported ...
6 × .50 caliber M2HB machine guns. 2 × RAMs. USS Comstock (LSD-45) is a Whidbey Island -class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to be named for the Comstock Lode in Nevada, the first being Comstock (LSD-19), commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1976. The Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, and ...
ARA Libertad (Q-2) is a steel-hulled, full-rigged, class "A" [2] [3] sailing ship that serves as a school vessel in the Argentine Navy.One of the largest [7] and fastest tall ships in the world, [8] [9] holder of several speed records, [3] she was designed and built in the 1950s by the Río Santiago Shipyard, Ensenada, Argentina. [4]
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) is a Ticonderoga -class guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is the third US Naval ship to be named Lake Champlain, in honor of Battle of Lake Champlain, which took place during the War of 1812. Lake Champlain was laid down 3 March 1986, at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched 3 ...