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  United States Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The navy was a part of the conflict from the very beginning of American involvement to the very end of the war, and proved to be a vital element in the success of the Allies.
The Navy is administered by the Department of the Navy, led by the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV).
All ships in the U.S. Navy inventory are placed in the Naval Vessel Register, which tracks data such as the current status of a ship, the date of its commissioning, and the date of its decommissioning.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/United_States_Navy   (7503 words)

  
 List of United States Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from List of ships of the United States Navy)
The List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships to have been commissioned by the United States Navy during the history of that service.
The U.S. Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Register, although it does not include early vessels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy   (278 words)

  
 United States Navy - dKosopedia
Generally amphibious ships, which are used to deploy Marines, are deployed in groups of three, with one amphibious assault ship (such as a Tarawa class ship) of the LHA/LHD type, one of the LPD type, and one of the LSD type.
Much of the Navy's current fleet fits a template set by President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War, which in turn was based on a model of warfare drawn from the Naval battles of World War II modified to fit the new role played by nuclear weapons.
Also, it is worth keeping in mind that France and all other European allies of the United States would likely make their Naval forces available as part of a coalition in the event of a Naval war that involved Russia on one side and the United States on the other.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/United_States_Navy   (6035 words)

  
 The Navy Then and Now
Ship's officers on the gun deck, just forward of the port side quarterdeck ladder, at the New York Navy Yard in the summer of 1886, while Vandalia was preparing for service on the Pacific Station.
The United States Government Manual, the official handbook of the Federal Government, was published by the Division of Public Inquiries of the Special Services Bureau of the Office of War Information.
Navy regulations of 1870 refer to the rating as Bayman (possibly sick-bay-man), and in 1898 it became Hospital Steward, in turn becoming Pharmacist's Mate in 1917.
www.linking.to /Navy   (8240 words)

  
 The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
The Confederate Navy's responsibility was the protection of the harbors and coast lines from blockade, and, hopefully, the establishment of a local superiority over the Federal Navy.
However, of these 90 ships, 21 were unfit to go to sea at all, 27 were laid up in various navy yards in need of extensive repairs or not ready to be launched, and 28 were in foreign stations, some as far away as China.
Mallory was experienced as an admiralty lawyer in his home state of Florida, and he served for a time as the chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee while he was a United States senator.
www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm   (2647 words)

  
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Navy officers with a proficiency in a foreign language, those who had foreign travel or who had intelligence-like experience, had their names kept on file at the former Bureau of the Navy as candidates for assignment to billets at ONI and at Navy attache posts overseas.
Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Officers were badly needed to brief pilots and debrief missions, and to ensure the flow of intelligence from combat reports to the commanders.
Navy Intelligence education and training is in a constant state of re-invention, re-organization, and re-shaping, and it continues to adjust to the realities of a changing world--declining defese resources, the telecommunications technology explosion, and new and expanded missions.
www.fas.org /irp/eprint/saunders.htm   (16452 words)

  
 U.S. Navy - Carriers: List of carriers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Stricken from the Navy List 1 Sep 1959.
Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969.
Stricken from Navy List; In the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Philadelphia, Penn. To be scrapped.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-list1.html   (802 words)

  
 Constitution for the United States of America
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
constitution.org /constit_.htm   (2670 words)

  
 History House: Panama I: Things to do in Panama when you Have Yellow Fever
This well-endowed, underdefended burg fell quickly to British pirate Francis Drake in 1572,[3] and was squabbled over by Britain, Spain, and the United States for the next few hundred years: each nation recognized that a canal dug through the isthmus would greatly increase trade between the Pacific coast and Atlantic ocean.
A treaty with the United States in 1850 (The Clayton-Bulwer treaty) established a tidy diplomatic agreement concerning a possible canal, and furthermore Nicaragua was not considered the tropical deathtrap Panama was.
The Navy had learned from the deaths at the railroad and the accounts of others, and had put together an extraordinary report detailing the problems, and perhaps some solutions, of the most ambitious engineering project the world had ever seen.
www.historyhouse.com /in_history/panama_1   (2683 words)

  
 Navy Traditions: Ships
Victory Ships and Tankers: The History of the "Victory" Type Cargo Ships and of the Tankers Built in the United States of America During World War II.
List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947.
United States Naval Vessels: The Official United States Reference Manual Prepared by the Division of Naval Intelligence, 1 September 1945.
www.history.navy.mil /trivia/trivia0b.htm   (426 words)

  
 Index of the United States Navy's web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A list of all former U.S. Navy battleships
Homeport List - aphabetical list of Navy's home ports and the ships assigned
The Coast Guard is an agency of the Department of Transportation and reports to the Navy during times of war.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/.www/subject.html   (1445 words)

  
 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and Ship History/Command Operations Reports
The Naval Historical Center and the Ships History Branch of the Naval Warfare Division express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to Admiral James L. Holloway III, United States Navy, Retired, Chairman of the Naval Historical Foundation, whose generous grant made the Online DANFS Project possible.
The Ships History Branch of the Naval Warfare Division researches and writes the multi-volume Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, available in many libraries in the United States and abroad.
Priority is being given to completing entries for Volume IB, updating histories for ships currently in commission, and finishing histories of ships that were still serving at the time their entry was originally published.
history.navy.mil /danfs   (402 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sky Ships: A History of the Airship in the United States Navy: Books: William F. Althoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The navy supported domestic rigid airship programs by making the Lakehurst facilities available to Germany's commercial rigid airships as German and the United States companies were to jointly develop a commercial transatlantic airship service.
However, with the delivery of blimp K-2 in 1938, the navy had a long-range patrol and convoy escort which became the prototype for the successful W.W.II K-type blimp.
By March 1944 the navy had 119 blimps with air stations on the West Coast and with East Coast air stations extending to Recifi, Brazil.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0935553088?v=glance   (1215 words)

  
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Alphabetical listing of clipper ships with histories and ills.
An artist’s chronicle of the ships that sailed the seas from 1870 to 1920.” With about 50 color plates of Jacobsen's work.
John Bliss and Co. ABRIDGMENT OF THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE TABLES 1882, WITH A LIST OF UNITED STATES LIGHT HOUSES....
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