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C&C 37/40's still perform very well under the PHRF handicap system, competing in club and coastal races and in offshore events. An example, the C&C 37R The Third Wave won the Premier Class Association Season Championship (Nova Scotia's top yacht racing circuit) in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2010, and a second in class in the 2010 Route Halifax Saint ...
Aquarius 23 This base model was introduced in 1969 and produced until 1976. It has a swing keel, a fractional sloop, tall rig or optional masthead sloop rig. It has a length overall of 22.67 ft (6.9 m), a waterline length of 21.17 ft (6.5 m), displaces 2,280 lb (1,034 kg) and carries 815 lb (370 kg) of lead ballast, including 165 lb (75 kg) in the keel.
The original Columbia boats were offered with a Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine or a Swedish 13 hp (10 kW) Volvo MD 7 A diesel engine. Later factory engines included a Japanese Yanmar two-cylinder diesel engine of 15 hp (11 kW) and a Yanmar 22.5 hp (17 kW) three-cylinder diesel offered by Hughes as a factory option. At least some later Aura ...
Traditionally a distinction used to be made between a coastal brown-water navy operating in the littoral zone to 200 nautical miles (or 370 kilometres) and an oceangoing blue-water navy. However, the United States Navy created a new term, green-water navy , to replace the term 'brown-water navy' in US Navy parlance.
Coastal Motor Boats were initially used for secret duties to move agents in and out of Russia from a base in Finland. [13] But in June 1919, the commander of the force, Lieutenant Augustus Agar, took two CMBs in a raid on Bolshevik ships in Kronstadt. Agar, in Coastal Motor Boat 4, entered the harbour and sank the cruiser Oleg.
The Danish training ship/coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel (1918) was refloated after an attempted destruction of the ship via running aground during Battle of Isefjord, disarmed and used as a training ship renamed Nordland by the Kriegsmarine. Scuttled a second time 3 May 1945, scrapped 1952. [6]
Oklahoma City during World War II. USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) stern with SC Seahawks c. 1945 USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) at sea c. 1945. Following shakedown, Oklahoma City transited the Panama Canal and reported to Commander Cruisers Pacific Fleet (ComCruPac) for duty, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1945.
The boat was fitted with a large variety of inboard engines for docking and maneuvering, including the Universal Atomic 4 and the Palmer P-60 gasoline engines, the British Perkins Engines 4-108, Westerbeke L-25, Pathfinder and Japanese Yanmar diesel engines. The fuel tank holds 32 U.S. gallons (120 L; 27 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a ...