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    A naval drifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of naval drifters is paralleled...
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  • Look up drifter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drifter is a vagrant who moves from place to place without a fixed home or employment. Drifter(s) or...
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    A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated from...
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  • Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. The...
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    either purpose-built for naval use or requisitioned from private owners. Norse herring drifter, c 1200 AD Dutch Herring Buss drifter taking aboard its drift...
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    armed trawler Tuman - Soviet naval trawler sunk in the Kildin Island engagement [August 4, 1941] Naval drifter Royal Naval Patrol Service "Anti-Submarine...
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    Naval Submarine Base Bangor is a former submarine base of the United States Navy that was merged with Naval Station Bremerton into Naval Base Kitsap in...
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    The CD-class naval drifters were armed naval drifters constructed in 1917 for the Royal Navy in Canada. 100 were ordered for use in British waters during...
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  • p. 483. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "Royal Navy casualties, August 1944". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 13 April 2023. "Marder attacks". www.u-boote.fr....
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    the Italian Navy, the Republic of Korea Navy (South Korea), the Turkish Naval Forces, and the Spanish Navy. The term amphibious assault ship is often...
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    Naval Support Activity Bahrain (or NSA Bahrain) is a United States Navy base, situated in the Kingdom of Bahrain and is home to U.S. Naval Forces Central...
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    several different types of ships to explore the possibilities of operating naval aircraft without the performance limitations of flotation devices required...
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    warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways...
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    symbol of national power, the arrival of these new warships renewed the naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany. Dreadnought races sprang...
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    two hydraulic transmissions, two propeller shafts. (Lighterage Division, Naval Support Activity Danang 1969-1970) crew of 3: coxswain, bowhook, and engineer...
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    common use. Battleships dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and were a symbol of naval dominance and national might, and...
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    Patrol boat (redirect from OPV (naval))
    as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement...
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    carry out anti-surface operations with surface-to-surface missiles and naval guns, and anti-submarine warfare with torpedoes and helicopters. Hobart-class...
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    Ship (section Naval vessels)
    Lagash, ships were first mentioned in connection to maritime trade and naval warfare at around 2500–2350 BCE.[citation needed] Austronesian peoples originated...
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    boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor launch Motor Launch Naval drifter Naval trawler Ocean boarding vessel Patrol boat Q-ship Steam gun boat Submarine...
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    During the 1930s and World War II, the French Navy and later the Free French Naval Forces operated the submarine tender Jules Verne. Unable to operate a significant...
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  • J. J. (1989). Ships of the Royal Navy, Volume 2: Navy-Built Trawlers, Drifters, Tugs and Requisitioned Ships From the Fifteenth Century to the Present...
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    cruiser turned out to be an unsuccessful design. The rapid development of naval aircraft in the 1930s quickly rendered the vessels obsolete, and they were...
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    expenditures in light of the increasing cost of keeping up with German naval production and in part because he felt the type to be outdated, Fisher authorized...
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    Schooner (category Naval sailing ship types)
    windward was useful for privateers, blockade runners, slave ships, smaller naval craft and opium clippers. Packet boats (built for the fast conveyance of...
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    they suffered heavy casualties and losses. One such casualty was armed naval drifter HMT Frons Olivae, which hit a mine off Ramsgate on 12 October 1915 in...
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  • A battlecarrier is a large, often hypothetical, hybrid naval ship designed to combine aspects of both an aircraft carrier and either a battleship or battlecruiser...
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    U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicised version of the German word...
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    boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor launch Motor Launch Naval drifter Naval trawler Ocean boarding vessel Patrol boat Q-ship Steam gun boat Submarine...
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    Frigate (category Naval sailing ship types)
    is the difference between Frigate and Destroyer? - Naval Post- Naval News and Information". Naval Post. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2022. "Frigate...
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