USS Dictator was a single-turreted ironclad monitor, designed for speed, and to sail on the open sea. Originally to be named Protector, the Navy Department...
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Rhode Island subsequently cruised in company with the seagoing monitor USS Dictator in March. In May Rhode Island made a cruise to Mobile, Alabama, returning...
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full-rigged ship. USS Protector was the planned name for the monitor USS Dictator; name changed while the ship was still on the stocks USS Protector (ARS-14)...
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and was commanding officer of the monitor USS Dictator from 1869 to 1870. He commanded the sloop-of-war USS Hartford, flagship of the Asiatic Squadron...
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20-inch Dahlgrens were intended to be mounted in the turrets of USS Dictator and USS Puritan. Both Rodman gun and Dahlgren gun were designed to fire both...
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Royal Navy USS Dictator (1863), a single-turreted ironclad monitor of the United States Navy "Dictator" (Centerfold song), 1986 "Dictator" (The Clash...
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construction of the ironclad ram USS Dictator in 1862–1863, served on the steam ship Ericsson in 1864, and USS Dictator in 1864 and 1865. That year, he...
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List of United States Navy ships: D–F (redirect from USS Dubhe (ID-2562))
(T-ACS-7) USS Diana (1862) USS Dianthus (SP-639) USS Dickens (APA-161) USS Dickerson (DD-157/APD-21) USS Dicky (SP-231) USS Dictator (1863) USS Didrickson...
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Eugene Orestes Gates (1843–1934), who served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Dictator during the Civil War. Gates died at the age of 89 on December 11, 1891...
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DANFS-Tonawanda 2015. "USS Miantonomoh (1865) Ironclad Monitor (1865)". www.MilitaryFactory.com. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016. "USS MIANTONOMOH"....
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1870, and lieutenant in 1871. In 1873 he transferred to the ironclad USS Dictator. One episode in Sebree's early military history which influenced his...
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"USS Callister" is the first episode of the fourth series of the anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and William...
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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the ship...
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September 1864 he reported aboard the monitor USS Dictator under the command of Commodore John Rodgers. Dictator cruised off the United States East Coast from...
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USS Utah (BB-31/AG-16) was the second of two Florida class dreadnought battleships. The first ship of the United States Navy named after the state of...
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of Panama, and the monitor USS Dictator on a voyage from New York City to Hampton Roads, Virginia; towed the monitor USS Saugus from Norfolk, Virginia...
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Nereus departed New York escorting USS Dictator to Hampton Roads. From Norfolk she towed the single-turret monitor USS Saugus to Wilmington for the attack...
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Asano, Hamish Linklater and Liam Neeson. Filming took place in Hawaii and on USS Missouri. In the film, the crews of a small group of warships are forced...
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operating individually. Higginson became executive officer of the monitor USS Dictator in March 1874, then became the commanding officer of the Naval Rendezvous...
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societies in books, video games, TV and movies. Below is a list of fictional dictators. Rodden, John (2006). Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's...
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the US Government at his shipyard. He did all of the woodwork in the USS Dictator in 1863. A new pilot-boat Ariel Patterson, No. 12, was launched on November...
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The first USS Weehawken was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named after Weehawken, New...
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship. Completed in 1944...
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Paraguay expedition (section USS Water Witch)
trying to mediate a longstanding dispute between Paraguay and Buenos Aires dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas — falsely claiming he had U.S. authorization to do...
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Fleet. NAVSTA Rota has been in use by the US since 1953, when Spanish dictator Francisco Franco strengthened relations with the United States as a move...
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December 8, 1966. The series follows the space adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew led by Captain James T. Kirk (portrayed...
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home's occupants. January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. January 16 – First successful...
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Getúlio Vargas announces the Estado Novo ("New State"), thence becoming dictator of Brazil until 1945. November 11 – The Kogushi Sulfur Mine collapse, in...
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intentionally rams USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown claims innocent passage. The accompanying US destroyer USS Caron escapes damage...
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first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered. March 13 – The dictator Carlos Antonio López becomes first President of Paraguay. March 21 – The...
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