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	United States Navy
		The United States Navy is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations.
		The United States Constitution, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress "to provide and maintain a navy." Acting on this authority, Congress ordered the construction and manning of six frigatess; one of the original six, the USS Constitution, familiarly known as "Old Ironsides", survives to this day.
		The naval jack of the United States is a blue field with 50 white stars, identical to the canton of the ensign, both in appearance and size.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/u/un/united_states_navy.html (2760 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 (282 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > List of ships of the United States Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is a list of ships of the United States Navy, including both past and present vessels.
		list of submarines of the United States Navy[?]
		USS United States (1797, CC 6, CVA 58)
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/li/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy (778 words)

	United States Navy information - Search.com
		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.
		United States naval aviation fully came of age in World War II, when it became clear following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of Midway that aircraft carriers and the planes that they carried had replaced the battleship as the greatest weapon on the seas.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/United_States_Navy (7905 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.
		For example, the Navy is developing its own port security units to patrol the shore when its ships are at dock, and is looking to use its resources rather than Army and Marine resources to man the prisoner camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		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.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/United_States_Navy (6093 words)

	Ship Descriptions - T-U
		The ship was named after the field in Iceland where the old assemblies of the people were held according to Norse custom and usage, and where resolutions were passed for the benefit of their commonwealth.
		She was a 2,280 gross ton ship, length 320ft x beam 36.1ft, straight stem, one funnel, three masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots.
		The UNITED STATES was built by A.Stephen and Sons, Glasgow in 1903 for the Scandinavia-American Line of Denmark.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/descriptions/ShipsT-U.html (12941 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)

	United States Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The United States Navy is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations.
		The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on October 13, 1775 by authorizing the procurement, fitting out, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America.
		The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress "to provide and maintain a navy." Acting on this authority, Congress ordered the construction and manning of six frigates on March 27, 1794 and in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution went into service.
	usapedia.com /u/united-states-navy.html (1480 words)

	Liberty Ships, Master List of Names
		Ships that survived the war were either (i) tied up in various holding areasaround the U.S. coast (these ships were generally scrapped in the early 1960s); (ii) sold commercially around 1947-49 (these ships invariably changed owners and names several times; few of them survived after 1975).
		Subsequent name changes (with the exception of ships delivered to the navy or offered for lend-lease, most name changes took place after the war) are not recorded in the master list.
		Ships converted to troop ships after some service as a freighter are not listed as delivered incomplete.
	www.fiu.edu /~thompsop/liberty/liberty_list.html (456 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		She was returned to the United States and then given to the Japanese in January 1953 to serve as the Kusu.
		The remote control of this giant ship was considered a major technological advance that, in a later generation, would be used in space operation at a latter time.
		She was procured by the Navy Department and commissioned in 1944 as an amphibious force flagship.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/u/UTAHSHIPS.html (2294 words)

	CNN.com - Pact lets U.S. search Liberia-flagged ships for WMDs - Feb. 13, 2004
		U.S. Navy sailors may board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction under a landmark pact between the United States and Liberia, the world's No. 2 shipping registry.
		Without the U.S.-Liberia pact, Liberian-flagged ships carrying suspect materials had to be shown to be breaking international law, or enter U.S. waters, before the United States could act unilaterally, experts say.
		But shipping industry analysts said the United States was already frequently stopping and searching vessels on the high seas at will.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/02/13/liberia.shipsearches.ap (829 words)

	Naming Ships - Navy Ships
		Ships lost in wartime were normally honored by having their names reassigned to new construction.
		While the Navy has attempted to be systematic in naming its ships, in recent years it seems there has been a complete breakdown in any attempt to sustain a systematic practice in the name categories for ship types.
		But as the 600-ship Navy has evolved into the 300-ship Navy, it would seem that a presumption has arisen that one should be on a first-name basis with each ship of the fleet, and that no further introductions should be required.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/names.htm (1234 words)

	US Navy in WW1
		The destroyers were part of the at least 36 United States destroyers that reached European waters in 1917-18, many of them based at Queenstown, Ireland, and St Nazaire and Brest, France.
		In 1917 the programme of large ship construction was suspended to concentrate on destroyers (including the large 'flush decker' classes, 50 of which ended up in the Royal Navy in 1940), submarine-chasers, submarines, and merchantmen to help replace the tremendous losses due to unrestricted U-boat attacks.
		Based at St Nazaire on eastern Atlantic escort duties, 'Chauncey' (Lt Cdr Walter Reno) was with a convoy on the night of the 19th/20th, when she was cut in half by the 'Rose' and sank at 03.17hrs; commanding officer and 20 crew lost, 70 survivors picked up by 'Rose'.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyUS.htm (2755 words)

	Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports
		The United States, which had important political and economic interests in East Asia, was alarmed by these Japanese moves.
		The Navy air bases at Ford Island and Kaneohe Bay, the Marine airfield at Ewa and the Army Air Corps fields at Bellows, Wheeler and Hickam were all bombed and strafed as other elements of the attacking force began their assaults on the ships moored in Pearl Harbor.
		American technological skill raised and repaired all but three of the ships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor (the USS Arizona (BB-39) considered too badly damaged to be salvaged, the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) raised and considered too old to be worth repairing, and the obsolete USS Utah (AG-16) considered not worth the effort).
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq66-1.htm (1340 words)

	LST's of the United States Navy
		LST-9 was returned to the United States Navy on I June 1946 and was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946.
		LST-11 was returned to the United States Navy on 13 May 1946 and was struck from the Navy list on 5 June 1946.
		LST-12 was returned to the United States Navy on 5 January 1946 and was struck from the Navy list on 20 March 1946.
	www.multied.com /navy/patrol/2.html (377 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)

	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.
	www.constitution.org /constit_.htm (2670 words)

	NRCC fleetsupport navyships
		The United States Navy operates under a Battle Group concept where ships sail in powerful task forces comprised of several ships working in conjunction as a team.
		The mission of MSC in the Mediterranean is to bring fuel and supplies from the shore to the ships at sea, enabling the battle group to stay at sea for long periods of time.
		MSC ships differ from other navy ships in that these ships are owned or chartered by the Navy but are crewed by civilian merchant marines and small detachments of Navy personnel.
	www.nsa.naples.navy.mil /nrcd/FleetLiaison/navyships.htm (1139 words)

	MILITARY FIREPOWER: NAVY & SHIPS
		One of the most famous ships of United States Navy, the USS Missouri (BB-63) is the fourth ship and second battleship to bear the name of the "Show me" state.
		The association was formed on 15 June 1987 to perpetuate the name of the elite United States Naval Force designated Helicopter Attack (Light) Squadron Three and seeks to continue and strengthen those friendships begun in Vietnam by personnel attached to this unique gunship unit known as the Seawolves.
		The lists currently cover all US Navy ships, from the start of the ironclad era to the present day, and non-US battleships and battlecruisers from 1906 (the start of the Dreadnought era) to the present day.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_other_navy_ships.php3 (1603 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: US Navy Ships and Hurricane Katrina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		USNS Pollux (T-AKR 290): According to a comment at NRO, this fast sealift ship is "operating onboard dialysis equipment for the patients of a local hospital, providing diesel fuel for area hospitals' generators, and providing meals and berthing to relief workers".
		Excerpt: Winds of Change has put together a list of the various (AKA extremely large number of) Navy ships that are involved with the hurricane, whether it be damaged by Katrina or a part of the relief effort.
		She is a 1000 bed hospital ship with 12 operating rooms and the capability to manufacture freshwater and their own oxygen.
	www.windsofchange.net /archives/007448.php (3249 words)

	AGOR Numeric List
		Several no longer appear on easily checked lists for the country indicated in the NVR custodian information and are presumed scrapped, sold or otherwise disposed of by their secondary owners.
		A worldwide list of research vessels is maintained by the University of Delaware.
		It appears that the little ships of the Conrad class are being replaced in their second life worldwide by the more recent first generation AGOS Ocean Surveillance Ship class.
	patriot.net /~eastlnd2/Agor.htm (2323 words)

	Defense Systems – Defense Department, United States - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Defense Systems – Defense Department, United States - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		, maritime military force of the United States.
		The United States Navy can deploy ships, submarines, and aircraft to any of the...
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210117745_6/United_States_Navy.html (36 words)

	List of ships of the United States Navy
		List of military vessels named after living Americans
		There is also a list of ships of the Japanese Navy and a List of ships of the Royal Navy (British).
		A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_ships_of_the_united_states_navy.html (503 words)

	Research - U.S. Navy Ships - Index
		This Select List describes photographs and photographs of artworks or models of ships that depict types of ships used by the Navy from the Revolutionary War period to December 7, 1941, before America's entry into the Second World War.
		Ships commissioned before the use of steel for ship construction was begun in 1883 are listed under Early Ships subdivided by method of propulsion, and listed thereunder chronologically by date of commissioning.
		Ships commissioned after 1883 are listed under Modern Ships and are subdivided by general class, such as auxiliary or destroyer, and thereunder chronologically.
	www.archives.gov /research/military/navy-ships (306 words)

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