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2. USS California (CGN-36) - Wikipedia

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   USS California (CGN-36), the lead ship of the California-class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers, was the sixth warship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of California.

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) - Wikipedia

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   USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) in September 1962. USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25/CGN-25) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy, the only ship of her class. Named in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge, she was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. With her original hull classification symbol of DLGN (nuclear-powered ...

6. USS Preble (DD-12) - Wikipedia

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   Preble then 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.

7. USS John R. Pierce - Wikipedia

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   John Reeves Pierce was born on 3 November 1906 in Cristóbal, Colón, Panama Canal Zone. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1928. Following flight training and submarine instruction, he served on the submarine USS S-29 and studied marine engineering at the University of California. After serving on USS Nautilus and USS Narwhal ...

8. 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.

9. 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.