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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.
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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 ...
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Knife game being played, with white line representing the motion of the game. The knife game, pinfinger, nerve, bishop, knife fingies, five finger fillet (FFF), or chicken [citation needed] is a game wherein, placing the palm of one's hand down on a table with fingers apart, using a knife (such as a pocket or pen knife), or other sharp object, one attempt to stab back and forth between one's ...
United Airlines flight attendants have voted 99.99% in favor of authorizing a strike if executives fail to agree to increase their benefits. The results of the group's vote, in which over 90% ...
1939: 7160–7169. BR: 47160-47169. Withdrawn. 1959–1964. All scrapped. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler Dock Tank was an 0-6-0 T steam locomotive. Designed for shunting in docks, it had a short wheelbase in order for it to readily negotiate tight curves. The locomotives spent their entire lives painted in plain black.
In modern amphibious warfare usage, a well dock is a hangar-like deck located at the waterline in the stern of some amphibious warfare ships. By taking on water the ship can lower its stern, flooding the well deck and allowing boats, amphibious vehicles and landing craft to dock within the ship. In the United States Navy, this is referred to as ...