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  2. Home port - Wikipedia

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    In a navy, a ship's home port is the port best suited to provide maintenance and restock weaponry particular to ships of that class and build. On conclusion of a tour of duty, a combat vessel returning to port will usually return to its home port. [citation needed] A single home port also makes it easier for family to visit sailors on leave .

  3. Naval Station Mayport - Wikipedia

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    In June 1948, Mayport was reestablished as a naval outlying landing field. The base area was increased to 1,680 acres (680 ha) and the runway was extended in the mid 1950s. USS Tarawa became the first capital ship to use the new aircraft carrier basin in October 1952. The Base was renamed back to a Naval Auxiliary Air Station in July 1955.

  4. USS Howard (DDG-83) - Wikipedia

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    USS Howard (DDG-83) USS. Howard. (DDG-83) USS Howard (DDG-83) is an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient First Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard, USMC. This ship is the 33rd destroyer of her class. Howard was the 19th ship of her class to be built by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, and ...

  5. USS Barry (DDG-52) - Wikipedia

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    Mark 54 lightweight torpedo. Aircraft carried. 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R. USS Barry (DDG-52) is an Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 1992. Barry is the fourth United States Navy ship named after the "Father of the American Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745–1803). Her homeport is Naval Station Everett, Washington.

  6. USS Carney - Wikipedia

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    USS Carney (DDG-64) is the 14th Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. The guided-missile destroyer is the first to be named after Admiral Robert Carney, who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration . Carney was laid down in 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.

  7. USS Shoup - Wikipedia

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    USS Shoup. USS. Shoup. USS Shoup (DDG-86) is an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is named for Medal of Honor recipient General David M. Shoup, the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps . Construction, on the 36th destroyer of her class, began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November ...

  8. USS Nimitz - Wikipedia

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    USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, and the lead ship of her class.One of the largest warships in the world, she was laid down, launched, and commissioned as CVAN-68, "aircraft carrier, attack, nuclear powered", but she was later redesignated as CVN-68, "aircraft carrier, multi-mission, nuclear-powered", on 30 June 1975, as part of a fleet-wide realignment ...

  9. USS Benfold - Wikipedia

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    USS Benfold (DDG-65) is a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.She is a multi-mission platform capable of anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) with the powerful Aegis Combat System suite and anti-aircraft missiles, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), with towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, anti-surface warfare (ASUW) with Harpoon missiles, and strategic land strike using ...

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