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USS Gladiator (MCM-11) USS. Gladiator. (MCM-11) USS Gladiator (MCM-11) underway off the coast of Bahrain, in August 2007. USS Gladiator (MCM-11) is an Avenger -class mine countermeasures ship of the United States Navy, and is the third U.S. Navy ship to bear that name. Gladiator onboard MV Condock V for transport in January 2007.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - a genetic disorder that causes unusual flexibility and thin skin, is known to weaken the connective tissues, leading to weak joints, blood vessels and organs.
USCGC. Sea Devil. USCGC Sea Devil is the 68th Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat to be built, and the first of four to be paid for by the US Navy. It is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. [1] Her home port is Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington, where she and her sister ship Sea Fox are assigned to one of two Maritime ...
The Finnish Navy ( Finnish: Merivoimat, Swedish: Marinen) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS", short for "Finnish Navy ship", but this is not used in Finnish-language contexts.
USS. Santa Fe. (SSN-763) USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles -class submarine, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Santa Fe, New Mexico. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 21 March 1986 and her keel was laid down on 9 July 1991.
SLNS Vijayabahu (P627) ( Sinhala: විජයබාහු, romanized: Vijayabāhu) is an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is named after King Vijayabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lanka who founded the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa . Formerly, USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) and USCGC Munro (WHEC-724), a ...
USS Capodanno was given to Turkey by the United States Navy as part of the restitution for the accident on TCG Muavenet (DM 357) in 1992. Decommissioned on 30 July 1993, Capodanno was subsequently leased to Turkey where she was recommissioned as TCG Muavenet (F-250). Stricken from the Navy list on 11 January 1995, Capodanno was finally sold to ...
2 × 3-inch/50 cal. guns and 2 Phalanx CIWS. USS Shreveport (LPD-12) was an Austin -class amphibious transport dock. It was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Louisiana. Her keel was laid down on 27 December 1965 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington.