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2. Flank speed - Wikipedia

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   Flank speed. 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 ...

3. Engine order telegraph - Wikipedia

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   Engine order telegraph. An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., also referred to as a Chadburn, [1] is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed.

4. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) - Wikipedia

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   USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California . She was the sole member of the Long Beach -class, and the last cruiser built for the United ...

5. USS Bache (DD-470) - Wikipedia

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   USS Bache at Rhodes after she was blown aground in a gale on 6 February 1968. USS Bache (DD/DDE-470), a Fletcher -class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy of that name. The destroyer was named for Commander George M. Bache . Bache was launched on 7 July 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Co. at Staten Island, New York and sponsored ...

6. 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.

7. USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) - Wikipedia

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   USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) was the former USS Gilbert Islands (ex- Sunset Bay) and a Commencement Bay -class escort carrier of the United States Navy . Reclassified as AGMR-1 on 1 June 1963, renamed USS Annapolis on 22 June 1963, and then commissioned on 7 March 1964 with Captain John J. Rowan becoming its first commanding officer.

8. USS Camp - Wikipedia

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   In 1965, Camp was sent to Vietnamese waters for coastal patrol and interdiction by the U.S. Navy (Operation Market Time). On 7 August 1967, Camp was notified that the Viet Cong were overrunning the Republic of Vietnam Navy Naval Junk Base 16 on the Trà Khúc River. At flank speed, Camp sped to the aid of the Vietnamese and an American Adviser.

9. USS Mahan (DD-364) - Wikipedia

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   Disabled by Japanese kamikaze; sunk by US destroyer on 7 December 1944. USS Mahan (DD-364) was the lead ship of the United States Navy 's Mahan -class destroyers. The ship was named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, a 19th-century naval historian and strategic theorist. Her design ushered in major advances over traditional destroyers.