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2. Flank speed - Wikipedia

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   Flank speed is an American nautical term referring to a ship 's true maximum speed but it is not equivalent to the term full speed ahead. Usually, flank speed is reserved for situations in which a ship finds itself in imminent danger, such as coming under attack by aircraft. Flank speed is very demanding of fuel and often unsustainable because ...

3. Navy Marine Corps Intranet - Wikipedia

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   The Department of the Navy has shown no desire to scale back or cancel the program. On 24 March 2006 the Navy exercised its three-year, $3 billion option to extend the contract through September 2010. In April 2006, users began to log on with Common Access Cards (CACs), a smartcard-based logon system called the Cryptographic Log On (CLO). In ...

4. USS Talbot County - Wikipedia

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   2 × single 20 mm guns. (The 20 & 40 mm guns were removed prior to 1958) USS Talbot County (LST-1153) was a tank landing ship (LST) built for the United States Navy just after World War II. The lead ship of her class of only two vessels, she was named after counties in Maryland and Georgia, and was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

5. USS Abbot (DD-629) - Wikipedia

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   USS Abbot (DD-629) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy.She was the second Navy ship named after Commodore Joel Abbot (1793–1855).. Abbot was laid down on 21 September 1942 at Bath, Maine by the Bath Iron Works, launched on 17 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Grace Abbot Fletcher, the granddaughter of Commodore Abbot, and commissioned at the Boston Navy ...

6. Long Island-class escort carrier - Wikipedia

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   The Long Island-class escort carrier was a two-ship class, originally listed as "AVG" (Aircraft Escort Vessels). They were converted from type C3-class merchant ships. The first ship of the class— USS Long Island, originally AVG-1, later ACV-1 then CVE-1—was launched on 11 January 1940, and served in the United States Navy through World War ...

7. USS Lapon (SS-260) - Wikipedia

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   10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. 6 forward, 4 aft. 24 torpedoes [5] 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [5] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. USS Lapon (SS-260), a Gato -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after the lapon, a scorpionfish of the Pacific coast of the United States.

8. USS Alvin C. Cockrell - Wikipedia

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   A similar search conducted off Peleliu during the waning days of July 1945 also yielded no trace of downed planes or pilots reported in her vicinity. The final month of the war, August 1945, began with Alvin C. Cockrell operating with the Palau Island Patrol and Escort Unit, keeping watch on the by-passed Palaus and the Japanese garrisons there.

9. USS N-3 - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Preble, serving as one of the convoy′s escorts, approached at flank speed as if to ram N-3, and N-3 made recognition signals and backed at full speed, avoiding a collision with Preble by only a few feet. N-3 hailed Preble, which stopped and sent a boat to N-3 to assess her damage.