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Kristian Mark Saucier [1] (born c. 1986) is a former U.S. Navy sailor who was convicted of unauthorized retention of national defense information and sentenced to one year in prison in October 2016 for taking photographs of classified engineering areas of USS Alexandria, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, in 2009.
"Aggie on Horseback" – HMS Weston; [4] nickname named for Agnes Weston, a temperance and sailor's advocate; "on horseback" is a jocular mistranslation of Latin "super-mare" ("on the sea"), "mare" being equated with a female horse "'A Gin Court" – HMS Agincourt; Battleship seized from Turkey in 1914; because of its luxurious Turkish outfit
USS California (SSN-781), is the eighth Virginia-class submarine, and the seventh United States Navy ship named for the state of California. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.) in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 2003. Construction began in December 2006. [7]
A Balao-class submarine that was sunk as a target off San Diego. USS Champlin United States Navy: 12 April 1936 A Wickes-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Diego. USS F-1 United States Navy: 17 December 1917 An F-class submarine that was sunk in a collision off Point Loma. USS Hogan United States Navy: 8 November 1945
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia , the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [ 1 ]
The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified decades later. Through the military's process of returning lost loved ones to their families, Svoboda said, she'd ...
Carl Maxie Brashear (19 January 1931 – 25 July 2006) was a United States Navy sailor. He was a Master Diver , rising to the position in 1970, despite having his lower left leg amputated in 1966. The 2000 film Men of Honor was based on his life.
California was renamed San Diego on 1 September 1914, in order to free up her original name for use with the Tennessee-class battleship California. She served as flagship for Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, intermittently until a boiler explosion put her in Mare Island Navy Yard in reduced commission through the summer of 1915.