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	Cephalopod News: Special Report: Chilean Blob
		Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending speculation of a giant octopus.
		Chileans who found a huge blob of flesh washed up on a remote Pacific beach said on Thursday they would send samples of the specimen to foreign scientists to sort out if it is a rare giant octopus or part of a whale carcass.
		Chilean scientists were baffled today by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.
	zapatopi.net /cephnews/chileanblob.html (577 words)

	Chile - Development of the Armed Forces
		It was precluded from overt involvement in the development of the Chilean military and naval air arms by the Treaty of Versailles.
		The navy, not immune to the German influences at work on the army for more than half a century, achieved a synthesis of the better elements of the Prussian military and British naval traditions.
		The Ecuadorian Navy was effectively established under Chilean guidance and has continued a long-standing arrangement whereby Ecuadorian naval cadets have received part of their training in Chile.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2528.html (1104 words)

	Chilean Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) is the naval force of Chile.
		The Chilean Navy’s most important asset is the 22,000 men and women that develop, maintain and operate the naval and maritime resources and land-based support installations.
		The men and women who comprise the Chilean Navy all share a set of clearly recognizable traits, that is, their commitment to serving their country, their values, their devotion to tradition and family principles, as well as a high level of professionalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chilean_Navy (821 words)

	Zackrison_Meason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chilean perception of the sea as part of the national heritage dates back to the Spanish conquest in the 1540s.
		Mar Presencial is a Chilean effort to fill one such gap by claiming at least the potential right unilaterally to enforce resource conservation measures in the zone, thereby empowering coastal states to require anyone who wishes to fish in zones nearby to reach an agreement with them prior to doing so.
		Jorge Martínez Busch [Adm., Chilean Navy], "La gran tarea de esta generación es la ocupación efectiva de nuestro mar" [The great task of this generation is the effective occupation of our sea], lecture inaugurating the "Month of the Sea," 4 May 1990, Viña del Mar, Chile.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/1997/summer/art4su97.htm (7025 words)

	Chile: Torture and the naval training ship the "Esmeralda" - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chilean Navy Foreign Affairs Department announced that instead of Sweden and Holland, the Esmeralda would stop at the ports of Bremerhaven in Germany and Dartmouth in England.
		However the navy insisted in burying him and years later, in 1986, she visited the cemetery of Playa Ancha and "saw in the registry that Michael had been buried in a common grave".
		During one of the voyages of the "Esmeralda", the New York City Council and the New York State Assembly and Senate passed resolutions in June 1986, expressing opposition to the participation of the Chilean naval vessel "Esmeralda" in the July Fourth Liberty weekend celebration and urging the invitation for her participation to be withdrawn.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAMR220062003 (3599 words)

	Military of Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The current Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army is Gen. Óscar Izurieta Ferrer.
		The Chilean police are comprised of a national, uniformed force, the Carabiniers, in Spanish Carabineros, and a smaller, plainclothes investigations force, called Investigaciones de Chile.
		After the military coup in September 1973, the Chilean national police were incorporated into the Defense Ministry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Chile (591 words)

	Chile and India keep their options open.... - World Affairs Board
		The Chilean Navy already has defined the purchase of three missile Type 23 frigates from the Royal Navy, an operation involving 250 million US dollars, according to Navy commander Admiral Mighe Vergara who would like to see the contract signed before June 18 when he retires.
		The Navy's request came after the French firm contracted for the mounting of Exocet missiles on the existing four HDW submarines, made heavy demands for the same.
		According to the Navy, the best way to upgrade HDW submarines is to fit them with Klub class Russian missiles, which have a range of over 300 kms and are cost effective for this upgradation, the present submarine needs to be lengthened-a major modification- which HDW is capable of.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=6112 (1476 words)

	Avalanche Press
		In July 1910 the Chilean parliament authorized a large spending program for a “first class warship” and supporting vessels; when it became clear that Argentina would buy two battleships, the program was expanded to add a second big ship of at least 28,000 tons.
		The Royal Navy formally purchased her in September 1914 — while she was not seized like the Turkish battleships just completing at Armstrong’s, there was little doubt that she would not have been allowed to leave British waters.
		The Chileans declined to part with her, and she served under Chilean colors for another decade and a half.
	www.avalanchepress.com /Chilean_Battleship.php (1431 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The Chilean Navy has officially canceled its Proyecto Fragata program in favor of buying four used frigates from the Netherlands, according to Adm. Cristián Gantes Young, the program’s director.
		Although details of the Netherlands-Chile transfer are not yet solidified, the Chilean Navy intends to procure two Jacob Van Heemskerck-class frigates, as well as two units of the Karel Doorman class.
		The Chinese Navy is starting two indigenous fast-attack craft programs while at the same time considering the acquisition of Russian-built fast-attack craft.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/mar_04_43.php (892 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Cruisers
		These steel ships was the first equipped with modern breechloading guns and this act marked the beginning of the transition from wood and sail to steel and steam.
		The Chilean foreign minister made offensive remarks which only aggravated the ensuing crisis so that by December war between the United States and Chili appeared possible.
		At the time, the Chilean Navy was better equipped than the American Navy.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/cruisers/history/cghist1.html (1051 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: World Navies in Review, by A.D. Baker III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fourth and final 4,400-ton former Royal Navy Broadsword-class frigate, the Brazen, was transferred on 30 April 1997 to become the Rademaker, joining three Sea Wolf and MM 38 Exocet missile-equipped sisters transferred in 1995-96.
		Chile: For the past several years, the Chilean Navy has been embarked on a modest fleet expansion, primarily to improve its defenses along its northern sea border and to extend its capability to patrol the waters of the Chilean economic exclusion zone.
		In the Chilean Navy surface fleet, a second Leander-class frigate, the Zentano (formerly HMS Achilles) completed a major modernization in December 1996, leaving only one of the four ships of the class to be updated with new weapons and sensors, an enlarged helicopter hangar, and a Chilean-developed combat data system.
	www.usni.org /Proceedings/Articles98/PRObakernsamerica98.htm (1169 words)

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		The Chilean Navy yesterday forced the Pintail to move south on the basis of national legislation that forbids the ship carrying radioactive waste cargo inside Chile's 200 mile Exclusive Economic Waters.
		In a statement by the Chilean Navy to the Captain of the Pacific Pintail, a reference was made to the fact that the Pintail with its cargo represents a violation of the 1992 Rio Declaration for the preservation of the sea environment.
		The Chilean Navy was subsequently informed by the Captain of the Pintail that he was under instructions from his company to continue to violate Chile's prohibition on his ship's passage of the EEZ for the next 48 hours.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/27.html (2164 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Sheffield now under new masters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The former HMS Sheffield, now the Chilean FFG Almirante Williams, welcomed on board her new masters as part of a visit to Devonport Naval Base.
		The Chilean Minister of Defence, Dr Michelle Bachelet, and the Commander in Chief of the Chilean Navy, Admiral Miguel Vergara, were among the party welcomed to the Plymouth base by Naval Base Commander, Cdre Andrew Mathews.
		Other senior Chilean officials included the Under Secretary for the Navy Carlos MacKenney, Director of Naval Programmes Rear Admiral Cristian Gantes, Defence and Naval Attaché Captain Enrique O’Reilly who were shown around the Chilean Navy’s latest warship.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0312/0003121801.asp (465 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The United Kingdom and Chilean governments signed an agreement Sept. 8 for the sale of three used Type 23-class frigates from the Royal Navy to the Chilean Navy (CN).
		The Scorpene program calls for options for up to 24 additional units, although the Indian Navy is expected to build only 12 of the optional units for a total class of 18.
		The delivery is part of a larger $1.2 billion military assistance package, of which $970 million was for the acquisition, upgrading and associated programs on the aircraft, as well as upgrades to Pakistan’s two existing P-3 aircraft.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/nov05-42.php (789 words)

	USS Tucson crewmembers enjoy Chile port call
		Teamwork South is the biggest exercise conducted by the Chilean Navy.
		It offered an exceptional opportunity to engage the Chilean Navy at sea and in port while practicing coordinated task group submarine operations, submarine warfare against a highly proficient diesel submarine, and anti-surface tactics in a high-threat littoral environment.
		Tucson and the Chilean diesel submarine CS Obrien worked together in numerous events over the three weeks and exchanged officers and crew during underway periods.
	www.csp.navy.mil /news/tucs-chil.htm (508 words)

	History
		By the end of the XIX century, the need to repair and maintain the Chilean Navy’s new vessels motivates the construction of a careening drydock of higher capacity than the existing ones in the country.
		Afterwards, the acquisition of the dreadnought Almirante Latorre by the Chilean Navy motivates the construction of a second drydock of even higher capacity: Drydock N°2, inaugurated on July 15
		Consequently, the capacity of the Chilean Navy Arsenals allowed not only to satisfy the requirements of the Chilean Navy but also of domestic and foreign owners whose vessels sailed along the Eastern South Pacific coast.
	www.asmar.cl /english/corp/corp_hist.html (206 words)

	Commander Arturo Prat: Greatest Hero of the Chilean Navy
		The figure of Commander Arturo Prat faithfully represents the commitment of Chilean seamen to their country due to his heroism displayed in the Iquique Naval Combat, May 21st, 1879 during the War of the Pacific against Peru and Bolivia.
		Arturo Prat and the daring sacrifice of his crew made a profound impression on Chilean public opinion at that time, awakening a patriotic enthusiasm that prompted thousands of youngsters to volunteer for the war.
		He was also the first Chilean naval officer to receive a university degree, after studying Law with great effort, at the same time as he performed his naval duties.
	www.revistavigia.cl /prontus4_revistavigia/site/artic/20050526/pags/20050526112612.html (415 words)

	NavyCompass.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chilean ship La Esmeralda (BE 43) sails through San Diego Bay after paying homage to the U.S. Navy via 21-gun salute.
		Esmeralda, a training vessel for the Chilean Navy, has visited more than 300 ports acting as a floating embassy for the South American Country.
		According to U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman 3rd Class Allison Burns, the Chilean midshipmen aboard Esmeralda learn to navigate by the stars and sail by the wind.
	www.navycompass.com /news/newsview.asp?c=187607 (344 words)

	Chilean Navy - Chilean Intelligence Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chilean Navy accordingly has enjoyed an unusual primacy among the nation's armed forces, despite the army's formal status as the senior service.
		The navy, with a strength of 25,000--including conscripts and the Navy Infantry Crops (Marines), Naval Aviation, and Coast Guard)--divides the long Chilean coastline into four naval zones, headquartered in Iquique, Punta Arenas, Talcahuano, and Valparaíso.
		Naval Aviation, with 750 personnel and a total of forty-five aircraft and forty-two armed helicopters, is organized into four squadrons: the General Purpose Squadron VG-1, the Helicopter Squadron VH-1, the Maritime Reconnaissance Squadron VP-1, and the Training Squadron VT-1.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/chile/navy.htm (169 words)

	U.S. Navy Supports Chilean UNITAS
		The exercise is designed to train each navy in a variety of maritime scenarios, with each operating as a component of the multinational force.
		MEJILLONES, Chile (NNS) -- Navies from seven countries, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the United States, are participating in exercise UNITAS 2006 Pacific Phase, from July 24 through Aug. 4 off the coast of Chile.
		UNITAS Pacific 2006 is designed to train each navy in a variety of maritime scenarios to improve interoperability with seamanship and warfighting training, with each operating as a component of the multinational force.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=24899 (581 words)

	Chilean Navy naval rank flags
		Also, as in other Chilean flags with stars does not seem to have any detailed prescription regarding the sizes and the exact poitions of the stars, so I have followed the drawings in Album 2000 [pay00] (that, as a rule, follows the Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39]).
		Also, as in other Chilean flags with stars does not seem to have any detailed prescription regarding the sizes and the exact poitions of the stars, so I have followed the drawings in Album 2000 (that, as a rule, follows the Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39]).
		If the ministery of Navy was suppressed, that allocation automatically disappeared, too.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/cl~nrank.html (549 words)

	Stennis Strike Group Rolls Into RIMPAC Full Speed Ahead
		RIMPAC is intended to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region.
		RIMPAC is now testing the strike group’s ability to collaborate with the navies of six other nations in the largest maritime exercise in the Pacific.
		Summer Pulse '04 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe, in five theaters, with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=14177 (836 words)

	Navy News - UPDATE - HMS ENDURANCE LOGISTICS DEPARTMENT - 18 Feb 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The main purpose of the visit was to liaise with the Chilean Navy and to increase general awareness of the Royal Navy.
		During the passage we had a number of Chilean Officers, ranging from navigational pilots to aircrew and coastguard officers onboard as guests.
		There was a visit organised to the large Naval Hospital, the Chilean Naval Museum and military and civilian representatives from the Chilean Hydrographic Department came onboard to see surveying set up that we have onboard.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/Endurance/end_05032401.asp (489 words)

	Chilean navy chief coming to shop for defence supplies \| India Defence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chilean navy chief coming to shop for defence supplies
		Chilean navy commander-in-chief Admiral Rudolfo Codina is slated to meet Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash, among others, on Monday.
		The BrahMos anti-ship missile, jointly developed by India and Russia, is now being inducted on the Indian Navy's frontline ships.The air-breathing missile, which has a strike range of up to 300 kms and can fly at a velocity of 2.8 Mach, was first tested in June 2001.
	www.india-defence.com /print/821 (250 words)

	Springer
		Springer (SS-414) was laid down on 3 October 1943 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched on 3 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Springer was decommissioned on 23 January 1961, transferred to the Republic of Chile, and commissioned in the Chilean Navy as SS Thomson on that date.
		Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 September 1972, and her hulk was sold to the government of Chile as scrap.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s16/springer.htm (943 words)

	Chilean Navy Warship: Celco's Escort of the Week - Surfcore: Surf Forecasting and Community
		The fishermen of Mehuin followed closely, and in December 2005 shots were fired across the bow of a Celco boat by local fishermen as scientists attempted to take depth soundings, ocean bottom contours and water samples.
		Nevertheless, over 40 small fishing boats congregated at the scene in heavy seas and torrential rains; they harassed the Celco and navy boats to such an extent that Celco and the navy again left the scene without succeeding at collecting their data.
		Before they left, the Chilean warship managed to sink two small fishing boats in what it claims was an accidental collision.
	surfcore.co.uk /node/783 (599 words)

	DCN Delivers First New-Generation Submarine to Chilean Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ceremony was attended by Chilean Defence Minister Jaime Ravinet, French Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Oudot de Dainville, representing the French Defence Minister, and DCN Chairman and CEO Jean-Marie Poimbuf.
		The O'Higgins is the first of two Scorpene submarines ordered under a contract signed in December 1997 by the Chilean Navy and European partners DCN International and Navantia.
		The Chilean Navy's acceptance of the O'Higgins casts the spotlight on the DCN group's growing presence in the international marketplace.
	www.defense-aerospace.com /cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?prod=62779&session=dae.15763449.1126643812.Qyc4ZMOa9dUAAB62f-E&modele=release (266 words)

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