A "clean sweep" for a naval vessel is having "swept the enemy from the seas", a completely successful mission. It is traditionally indicated by hanging...

clean sweep in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clean sweep may refer to: Clean sweep (naval), a naval expression meaning a successful mission Clean Sweep...

sweep, sweeping, or swept in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sweep or swept may refer to: Sweep, the action of using a brush to clean Chimney sweep,...

terminology Maritime flag French ensigns Clean sweep (naval), involving the use of a broom "Commissioning Pennant". Naval History and Heritage Command. Department...

The reason for flying the flag has not been made public. Clean sweep (naval), another naval tradition indicating a successful patrol, where a broom is...

are particularly acute for naval carrier-based aircraft. A variable-sweep wing allows the pilot to use the optimum sweep angle for the aircraft's speed...

auxiliary duties, after the Argentine surrender the trawlers were able to sweep ten naval mines which had been successfully laid in Port Stanley harbour; eleven...

are three workers: Alice, Bob and Carol. One of them has to clean the bathroom, another sweep the floors and the third washes the windows, but they each...

Iraqi Freedom. She would go on to fire all 20 missiles earning her a "clean sweep" under the command of CDR William J. Frake. On 27 May 2004 Montpelier...

captain was Douglas D. Casavant Jr. In August 2012 Spearhead made a "clean sweep" of her acceptance trials. Spearhead was formally delivered to the Navy...

eleven successful war patrols. These are documented in his autobiography, Clean Sweep, 1986. A student of Christian Science, Davenport was dubbed the "praying...

the Charleston Naval Shipyard between February and May 1959, Yazoo conducted refresher training and then took part in Exercise Clear Sweep IV off Charleston...

the ships in competition. On her return to port, with the news of her clean sweep, the captain ordered that every lanyard on the ship would display a broom...

(14 March 2024). "ABP News-CVoter Opinion Poll: NDA Projected To Get Clean Sweep In UP Dashing Hopes For Oppn". news.abplive.com. Retrieved 17 March 2024...

to successfully launch her entire complement of Tomahawks, earning a "clean sweep" for combat actions in the final three months of a nine-month deployment...

is used for cleaning and in printing. The earliest written references to squeegees date from the mid-18th century and concern deck-cleaning tools, some...

Yard". Naval History Blog. U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2016. Kennedy, Harold (August 2001). "Navy's Oldest Base Gets Clean Sweep, Fore and...

clamp used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so as to give a freer sweep to the yards. cathead A beam extending out from the hull used to support...

of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2. Naval-History.net. Retrieved 21 October 2014. "Navy Makes Clean Sweep of Malta's Wartime Wrecks". The Glasgow...

Retrieved April 16, 2021. Berman, Marc (April 7, 2021). "Tuesday Ratings: Clean Sweep for CBS; 'Pooch Perfect' Declines Considerably on ABC". Programming Insider...

The Royal Indian Navy mutiny was a failed insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians against the British government...

60km 37miles Georgia Tech Georgia     Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate is the name given to the Georgia–Georgia Tech football rivalry. It is an American college...

collaborator Robert Heinlein, a retired American naval officer. After the numerous losses during the various naval battles off Guadalcanal during the war of...

His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde...

ROCC at Elmendorf AFB. In 1998, Pacific Air Forces initiated "Operation Clean Sweep," in which abandoned Cold War stations in Alaska were remediated and...

Fleet in October 1976. Once arriving at her new home port at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, Parche received ocean engineering modifications...

frequencies using Morse Code. She flies a broom from her mast, indicating a clean sweep: a successful patrol that "swept the enemy from the seas. In total, she...

broom upside down atop the mainmast coming into New York, which meant "clean sweep".[citation needed] Contributing to their findings are two damage holes...

must have left a scattered debris trail. Using that lesson, they had Argo sweep back and forth across the ocean floor looking for the Titanic's debris trail...

after the exercise, the submarine sailed into Sydney Harbour claiming a "clean sweep" by lashing a broom to the attack periscope. Ovens became the first RAN...