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  Agamemnon (disambiguation) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Agamemnon - one of the most distinguished of the Greek heroes, was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae (or Argos) and Queen Aerope, and brother of Menelaus.
EAS Agamemnon - a starship in the fictional Babylon 5 universe.
USS Agamemnon (USN) - A World War I era vessel that the United States Navy used as a troop transport.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Agamemnon_%28Disambiguation%29   (183 words)

  
  Agamemnon class carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Agamemnon class is the largest warship in the Earth Alliance and OMNI Enforcer until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship.
The Agamemnon class was the largest in OMNI Enforcer until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship.
The wedge-shaped Agamemnon class carriers usually served as flagships for the space fleets of the Earth Alliance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agamemnon_class_carrier   (694 words)

  
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An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft —in effect acting as a sea-going a...
A light aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier that is smaller than the standard carriers of a navy.
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the NX class was a variety of starship produced by Earth Starfleet prior to...
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 HAFS Dauntless class Light Carrier
The Dauntless class carrier formed the carrier forces of the Human Alliance until the were replaced by the much larger Intrepid class fleet carrier.
Neither the Dauntless class carrier or the larger Intrepid class was selected for the Consortium Armed Forces when formed and the Human Alliance downsized their navy with the Consortium taking over many of the roles performed by the Human Alliance.
The normal fighter compliment for the Dauntless class carrier are three squadrons of light starfighters and two squadrons of medium starfighters.
www.kitsune.addr.com /Rifts/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/HAFN_Dauntless_Light_Carrier.htm   (1586 words)

  
 Agamemnon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Agamemnon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Agamemnon was worshipped in Sparta in Hellenistic times.
The dynastic rivalries between the houses of Atreus and Thyestes are known as the legend of the Atridae.
Then follow the incidents connected with the gathering of the Achaeans and their ultimate landing in Troy; and the story of the war is detailed up to the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon with which the "Iliad" begins.
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 Agamemnon class carrier pro capital punishment Agamemnon class carrier
The Agamemnon class also defends itself with two beam gun turrets and has extensive bridge facilities for service as a flagship.
Until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship, the Agamemnon class is the largest and most powerful warship in OMNI Enforcer.
In CE 73, the Agamemnon fleet has been heavily modified, with the formerly sleek wedge widened across the beam and split into a fork arrangement to accommodate the new thickened and lengthened superstructure amidships for stand-up launch facilities for the GAT-02L2 Dagger L and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits.
www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Agamemnon_class_carrier/Agamemnon_class_carrier.html   (440 words)

  
 Hyperspace: Earth Alliance
They were the first new ship class to be designed and built after the disastrous Minbari war, based on the Nova Class, and they incorporated much new technology.
The Omega class is 1717 meters long, and it is equipped with numerous particle weapons (capable of firing in beam or pulse mode), which are used as both offensive weapons and defensive interceptors and anti-fighter guns.
The Hyperion Class Heavy Cruiser, 990 meters long, is one of the oldest types of Earth Alliance ships still in service, and they were all built before the Minbari war.
www.isnnews.net /hyperspace/ea   (2237 words)

  
 Adam Smith : Wealth of Nations : Chapter I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
But in order to carry it to this degree of perfection, it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens; and the division of labour is as necessary for the improvement of this, as of every other art.
When Agamemnon, in Homer, offers to Achilles, for his friendship, the sovereignty of seven Greek cities, the sole advantage which he mentions as likely to be derived from it was, that the people would honour him with presents.
It ought to be observed, that in the trade which the South Sea company carried on by means of their annual ship, the only trade by which it ever was expected that they could make any considerable profit, they were not without competitors, either in the foreign or in the home market.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.2/bookid.770/sec.34   (18523 words)

  
 Cornelius-class - Gundam Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Initially, the vessel that would become the ReHOME started life as a prototype tender ship for the Earth Alliance's new Archangel class assault ships which were in development.
However, the destruction of Heliopolis, where the Archangel and the prototype tender were in development, caused the tender to be abandoned.
Agamemnon - Archangel - Arkansas - Des Moines - Drake - Fraser - Girty Lue - Hannibal - Nelson - Tarawa
gundam.wikia.com /wiki/ReHOME   (475 words)

  
 Star Fleet Engineering - United Federation of Planets Starship Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
One uncommon design feature of the class is the ability for both primary and secondary sections of the hull to operate at warp speed while separated.
The Hiryu-class starships represent the idealogical successor to the Hood class.
A cousin to the Defiant class, the Thunderbolt class is the smallest starship in the Federation inventory to mount to offensive weapons of a destroyer.
www.alt-starfleet-rpg.org /branches/SFE/ships/federation/index.html   (2104 words)

  
 ROBOTECH: Terran Conventional Naval Vessels - Daedalus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In 2024, three of the five surviving members of this class were converted into command ships, a conversion which included a drastic lowering of the mecha complement (now only required for self-defense), installation of additional communications equipment, and expansion of the storage spaces, C3I rooms etcetera into the former mecha hangars.
Prometheus-class of submersible aircraft carriers, but unlike that class, the Daedalus was intended to land destroid forces directly over a beach.
The Daedalus-class was an object of antipathy for carrier officers, who found the concept of a large, vulnerable over-the-beach landing ship to be several decades out of date with modern amphibious thinking, which now emphasized standing off the beach and mobile assaults on lesser defended areas.
www.artemisgames.com /robotech/Naval/Daedalus.html   (1903 words)

  
 Other SCS's
Balvamus Class Carrier A carrier variant of the Primus, removing the Battle Lasers and doubling the number of fighters, as well as adding two Guardian Arrays and two more Twin Arrays.
It theorises that the Agamemnon was so heavily damaged at the end of Season 4 that Earth Force chose not to repair her.
The SCS shows her carrying Minbari fighters, but she could have just as easily carried Thunderbolts, or, more likely, a mix of the two.
b5shipyardannex.mystarship.com /OtherSCS.html   (209 words)

  
 Girty Lue information - Search.com
This is a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era universe, part of the Gundam anime metaseries.
When the Minerva attacked the base, Djibril tried to escape in the Girty Lue but as soon as the ship reached the surface it was detected by Rey Za Burrel who used the DRAGOON system of his ZGMF-X666S Legend to destroy the ship, killing Djibril in this action.
Agamemnon - Archangel - Arkansas - Des Moines - Drake - Fraser -
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 Altair Shipyard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The length of the Orion Class Assault Carrier is 3300 Ft.
The length of the Jupiter Class Battleship is 3220 Ft.
The length of the Apollo Class Battleship is 3175 Ft.
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A live wire carrying a current looks exactly the same and weighs exactly the same as it does when it is not carrying a current.
However, his discovery proved to be of incalculable value in research, as it enabled scientists to carry out experiments which led to the discoveries of the heating, lighting, chemical and magnetic effects of electricity.
This publication also carried advertisements and it was there that I first saw an illustration of the Hammerlund Super Pro and realised that there were receivers specially designed for the reception of short waves.
ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/wiretap-classic-library/radio.txt   (21974 words)

  
 Athens Class Scientific Explorer / Carrier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This is only, however, a secondary mission of the Athens Class; A refit would be required, and is possible, to render the vessel into a true dedicated Medical response vessel.
Originally, the classname was Olympic, but that was changed when it was discovered that an older class by that name had been used in the past, and its use today would cause confusion.
The use of multiple generators in one section is strongly discouraged, because of deflector shield interference, which would cause the total coverage in that area to be less than either of the component parts.
www.star-fleet.com /ed/specs/athens   (3619 words)

  
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Mothers carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day's work in the fields hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable herd-robber.
Adrian was duly carried abroad under the Mebberley wing; but as a reluctant concession to sanity Homburg and other inconveniently fashionable resorts were given a wide berth, and the Mebberley establishment planted itself down in the best hotel at Dohledorf, an Alpine townlet somewhere at the back of the Engadine.
Lady Barbara carries her scarred face with its sightless eyes as bravely as ever in the world, but at Eastertide her friends are careful to keep from her ears any mention of the children's Easter symbol.
ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/wiretap-classic-library/clovis.hh   (21554 words)

  
 Journal of Applied Treknology - Starships S-Z
The Spartan class was designed to fill a fleet request for a sub 400-metre cruiser with the abilities of an Excelsior class and the as yet unnamed Ambassador class with a full exploration capabilities, offensive and defensive of the larger ships.
The Theben class, a close relative of the Huxley and offshoot of the Excellentia technology program of the late 2260s is one of the numerous but unremarkable companions to the Oberth-class.
The requirements were that it should be smaller than the Ambassador class to keep costs down, have a top speed of warp 9.6 to compete with the planned Galaxy class, have weapons which would be have significantly improved over the Ambassador class, and to have the premier guest accommodations.
www.treknology.org /starships4.htm   (6620 words)

  
 Heavy Cruisers - Backbone of the fleet
The Pensacola (CA-24) and Northampton (CA-26) classes of heavy cruisers carried the 8 inch 55 calibur rifles which class them as "heavy cruisers" but the armor protection was virtually indistinguishable from the protection of light cruisers.
The Japanese Kongo class battle cruiser are the most successful class of battle cruiser, in both the balances of inherent weakness and strengths, the long successful carriers right up their losses in the Pacific War.
All four ships of this class were named from mountains in Japan and the Kongo was last Japanese capital ship designed and constructed outside of its native country.
www.nettally.com /~wright/navyard5.html   (1106 words)

  
 Gundam Legacy
Yamada Rikawa a young Mobile armor pilot stationed on the carrier Roosevelt was doing maintenance on his Mobius unit when he noticed two techs loading a large missile into the undercarriage of a mobile armor.
After pocketing the disk she attempts to leave the colony but the Le Cruset team attacks the port, She is forced to evacuate the colony in a life pod just before it collapses.
Later the Heliopolis survivors are handed over to a civilian transport vessel, Shelba uses the chance to escape on a shuttle with the data disk she recovered from Heliopolis.
gundamlegacy.petrolution.net /story.html   (1018 words)

  
 USS SORANUS - NCC 122901: Specifications
As expected, this class vessel is heavily armed with the latest in standard phasers, torpedo launchers, and meson phasers.
Although not the compliment of a carrier, the addition of the fighters is intended to offer itself as additional support in daily operations.
Just after the introduction of the class, the engineers returned to the drawing boards to both update certain systems while removing the bugs from others.
usssoranus.org /specs.php   (431 words)

  
 Hiigaran Space Fleet :: Protectors of Peace
The Hiigaran Empire employs, in Planetary Marine Invasions, at least one Agamemnon Carrier.
This carrier can readily deploy 200,000 fully equipped, combat capable landmate Marines into battle, and two Angelus-class Carriers (For more info on carrier, see freewebs.com/supercav).
Seen detatched from the picture below, it is a massive plasma cannon, firing in five-second bursts, able to fire once every other minute, alows it to glass entire cities in a matter of hours at extreme ranges.
www.freewebs.com /spacenavy/marineforces.htm   (391 words)

  
 Class Statistics Board
In many ways there are too many classes here to seem sensible, it's just that somehow Starfleet have constructed 80,000 ships since its founding (due to the ship registries we know) and rather than have certain classes having thousands of ships, I was more comfortable with explaining this with a large number of classes...
If the amounts of ships figure is in brackets, it indicates that further vessels in that class are planned, and the current number is only provisional, this obviously is only pertinent to 24th century classes still under construction.
Final power values given are a fair indication of that class' actual armour and hitpoints capability, and a ship whose power is 100, is there or thereabouts ten times as powerful as a ship that is rated at 10.
www.trekmania.net /the_fleet/utopia/statsboard.htm   (889 words)

  
 Ex Astris Scientia - Federation Ship Names A-K
Japanese aircraft carrier that fought in the Battle of Midway in World War II USS Akira NCC-62497
We may assume that, rather than remembering 20th century pop culture (namely the anime Akira), Starfleet has named the ship for someone of that name who has gained significance some time between today and the 24th century.
A causality paradox, since in the real world the shuttle was named for the starship...
www.ex-astris-scientia.org /articles/name_origins1.htm   (1581 words)

  
 FT: Unofficial NAC Fleet Roster
These 'tin can' carriers are generally assigned to Destroyer Squadrons or Cruiser-Destroyer Groups where having a dreadnought or one of the specialized carriers would be overkill, but yet where some presence of fighters is desireable.
Carrier Battlegroups are generally well-rounded enough to operate in independent operations, with no definite need for escorting Cruiser-Destroyer Groups or Destroyer Squadrons, but often one or two will be assigned if they are available (the NAC Naval Command is rather loathe to risk losing their prize carriers if it can be prevented).
Many carriers carried extra parts and modules to refit their heavy fighter squadrons if the captain thought it was prudent for a given assignment.
www.bcpl.net /~indy/full-thrust/nac_roster.html   (2940 words)

  
 New Page 1
It is seen in the E3 2001 flyer and trailer that were kept secret at the time.
It is -- or at least was -- a mothership-sized command carrier.
One of the concept arts labels it as "Agamemnon".
shipyards.relicnews.com /hw2/v_ccarrier.htm   (85 words)

  
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Where it is known that two or more ships share the same class but that their formal designation is unknown, the list classifies them as being the type of whichever ship appears first alphabetically.
It was one of the latest models of escort carrier, but its sleek, modern lines were marred by battle damage.
Note that the actual class is probably not Coventry, as the TCS Coventry is said to be more modern than the TCS Sheffield.
www.wcnews.com /loaf/newshipslist.doc   (2618 words)

  
 Biography - Admrial Raymond A. Spruance, USN
Graduated on 12 September 1906, with the Class of 1907, he served the two years at sea, then required by law, and was commissioned Ensign on 13 September 1908.
In January 1919, he reported as Executive Officer of USS Agamemnon, employed in returning troops to the United States after the end of the war.
Carrier units of his force penetrated waters of the Japanese Homeland and Nansei Shoto and inflicted severe damage upon hostile aircraft, shore installations and shipping…”
www.history.navy.mil /bios/spruancer.htm   (1350 words)

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