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    the "fleet boat" program. The term "V-boats" as used includes five separate classes of submarines: large, fast fleet submarines (V-1 through V-3), large...
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  • A V-hull, is the shape of a boat or ship in which the contours of the hull come in a straight line to the keel. V-hull designs are usually used in smaller...
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    Motorboat (redirect from Motor boat)
    middle of the boat with the propeller shaft straight out the back, where a V-drive has the powerplant mounted in the back of the boat facing backwards...
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  • This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also...
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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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    construction on 2 December 2019. Arizona will be the second Block V boat, and the first boat to feature the Virginia Payload Module. The keel laying ceremony...
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    The Mark V SOC (Special Operations Craft) was a marine security, patrol and special forces insertion boat used by the United States Navy and manufactured...
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    and one of the "V-boats", was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for that aquatic mammal. She also bore the name V-7 and the classifications...
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  • V1 (redirect from V.1)
    German World War I destroyer class USS V-1, 1924–1931 designation of the USS Barracuda (SS-163), first of the US "V-boat" series of submarines V1, a rudderless...
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    and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. Nautilus was originally named and designated V-6 (SF-9), but was...
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    A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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    Block V submarines starting with the second boat, SSN-803. The Block V boats with VPM are expected to triple the capacity of shore targets for each boat. Construction...
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    V-drive is a propulsion system for boats that consists of two drive shafts, a gearbox, and a propeller. In a "V-drive" boat, the engine is mounted in...
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    USS Barracuda (SF-4/SS-163), lead ship of her class and first of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda...
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    Argonaut (V-4/SF-7/SM-1/A-1/APS-1/SS-166) was a submarine of the United States Navy, the first boat to carry the name. Argonaut was laid down as V-4 on 1...
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    as the "V-boats" and named for the sperm whale. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 19 October 1933 as V-8 (SC-4)...
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    A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol...
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    one of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cuttlefish. Her keel was laid down by Electric Boat Company in...
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  • Thumbnail for Holland Torpedo Boat Company
    Holland Torpedo Boat Company was founded by John Philip Holland (1841 – 1914) in 1893. Holland was an Irish engineer-inventor, who designed and built the...
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  • Thumbnail for Flat-bottomed boat
    A flat-bottomed boat is a boat with a shallow draft, two-chined hull, which allows it to be used in shallow bodies of water, such as rivers, because it...
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    inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed...
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    A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence...
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    has media related to Banana boat. Look up banana boat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Banana Boat – Types of Boats". Retrieved 24 July 2013. v t e...
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    originally named V-8 and V-9, and so were known as "V-boats" even though they were unrelated to the other seven submarines (V-1 through V-7) constructed...
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    submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the narwhal. She was named V-5 (SC-1) when her keel was...
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    Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such...
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    E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the...
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  • A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft originating from the Pearl River Delta region of China's southern Guangdong Province. These were made of teak...
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    reliability, the AA-1 class (also known as the T class) and the V-boats, of which V-1 through V-3 were an unsuccessful attempt to produce a fleet submarine...
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    misconstrued to mean the boat hull is flat, this is not generally the case and include various v-hull designs. However some flats boats designs, sometimes called...
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