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	Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A navy is the branch of a country's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare (marines) namely lake or ocean borne combat operations and related functions.
		However, a few nations that lacked a navy but were faced with an enemy that was a strong naval power, such as Rome during the Punic Wars, built a powerful navy from scratch.
		Navy ships normally operate with a group, which may be a small squadron of comparable ships, or a larger naval fleet of various specialized ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Navy (3462 words)

	Royal Navy Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.85.60 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Royal Navy is currently the second largest in western Europe in terms of personnel, after the French Marine Nationale.
		In the latter stages of the Cold War, the Royal Navy was reconfigured with three anti-submarine warfare aircraft carriers and a force of small frigates and destroyers.
		Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War — with its three ASW aircraft carriers and a force of small frigates and destroyers, its purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.
	216.92.85.60 /encyclopedia/Royal_Navy (2947 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A navy (often Navy) is the branch of a country's military forces principally designated for naval warfare, namely lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
		Navy ships normally operate with a group, which may be a small squadron of comparable vessels, or a larger naval fleet of various specialized ships.
		Vessels may be combined into squadrons or flotillas, which may be formed into fleets.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Navy (2455 words)

	List of Royal Navy ship names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of Royal Navy ship names by name in alphabetical order, both past and present.
		List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
		List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names (215 words)

	Navy - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A navy (often Navy) is the branch of a country's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare (marines) namely lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
		This is not the case for every navy, however: some are just for defence such as Japan's navy, part of the JDF (Japanese Defence Force).
		Image:US riverboat using napalm in Vietnam.jpg Historically a national navy operates from one or more bases that are maintained by the country or an ally.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Navy (3157 words)

	Category:Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of Royal Navy ships in North America
		List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
		List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Royal_Navy (81 words)

	Lee Maritime Books - Naval & Royal Navy Books
		A chronological account of the merchant navy at war from 1939 to the early spring of 1943, describes in vivid detail the trials and tribulations of the merchantmen and some of the actions in which they were involved.
		Having already seen action in China during the Boxer Uprising, Keyes at the age of 32, became the youngest captain in the Royal Navy, and by the outbreak of war in 1914, was senior naval officer at Harwich.
		Examines and describes the peacekeeping role of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean after the First World War, during whicch it was involved in several tense and difficult situations in the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.leemaritimebooks.com /Books/Naval.asp (12630 words)

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		A Navy judge chastised prosecutors Thursday at the court-martial of a former Naval Academy football quarterback charged with rape, saying their witnesses have been weak.
		WASHINGTON -- A Navy judge chastised prosecutors Thursday at the court-martial of a former Naval Aca...
		Washington, D.C. Navy judge sharply criticized military prosecutors Thursday in the court-martial of a former U.S. Naval Academy football quarterback for rape, saying some of the evidence and witnesses they presented during the trial has been weak.
	www.etigazette.com /Top-News-Searches-2005-Nar-to-Nei/navy.php (2979 words)

	Articles - Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		USS is an acronym which expands to United States Ship; in the British Navy, HMS expands to Her Majesty´s Ship (or when a King reigns, His Majesty´s Ship), and so forth.
		As the tradition evolved, the number of cannons fired became an indication of the rank of the official being saluted.
		during World War II, a Navy captain was assigned duty as a convoy commodore, which meant that he was still a captain, but in charge of all the merchant vessels in the convoy.
	www.motionize.com /articles/Navy (3039 words)

	Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The UK Royal Navy has similar restrictions, although other NATO members such as Canada, Spain and Norway have opened submarine service to women.
		As the tradition evolved, the number of cannons fired was an indication of the rank of the official being saluted.
		For a list of the prefixes used with ship names (HMS, USS, &c.) see Ship prefix.
	pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/na/Navy.htm (2293 words)

	Sea and Naval Books
		The Turn of the Road: being the story of the part played by the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the landings in Algeria and French Morocco of combined British and United States forces on 8th November, 1942, and the final destruction of the Axis forces in North Africa.
		In Sept. 1939, the tiny Canadian navy went to war as a pliant auxiliary of the Royal Navy.
		A comprehensive handbook of the vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy from the mighty Yamato class battleships to the suicide submarines.
	www.stillmanbooks.com /navalbooks.htm (6031 words)

	Sailing ships of the Royal Navy, R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		While she was employed in maintaining communication between the commander-in-chief off Ushant and the blockading squadrons at Rochforte and Ferrol she was twice on the point of foundering and had to throw all her guns overboard.
		Capt. FARQUHAR and his squadron anchored off Gluckstadt on 23 December for the purpose of cooperating with a detachment of the Crown Prince of Sweden's army in the reduction of the fortress.
		From the spring of 1811 Capt. ANDERSON was senior officer of the inshore squadron between Calais and Boulogne.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /R.HTM (19549 words)

	CHAPTER 29 New Zealanders in the Royal Navy \| NZETC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The peak was reached in September 1944 when the total strength of the Royal New Zealand Navy was 10,635, of whom 1242 officers and 3659 ratings, a total of 4901, were serving overseas in ships and establishments of the Royal Navy.
		During the next six months the flotilla kept pace with the Army and swept the approaches to ten ports along 1800 miles of the North African coast as far as Sousse, besides escorting convoys of supply ships, including one to Malta.
		From January to September 1944 the flotilla was engaged in sweeping an inshore channel from Taranto round the heel of Italy and thence up the Adriatic coast as far north as Ancona.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Navy-c29.html (13297 words)

	navy ship names
		… to, and their name represents a piece of history in that it is not the first time that the badge or name would have appeared on a Royal Navy ship or submarine.
		NAVY SHIP CHRISTENING: The U.S. Navy recently named its newest guided missile destroyer Oscar Austin (DDG 79) after Oscar Austin, a Black American killed in action during the Vietnam conflict.
		Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England announced the name of the Navy's newest amphibious transport dock ship, San Diego (LPD 22), which honors the long-standing relationship between the Navy and c...(Continue Reading)
	www.agawamhs.org /navy-ship-names.html (425 words)

	Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A number of different tonnage definitions exist; most measure volume rather than weight, with are used when describing merchant ships of an purpose of tolls, taxation, etc. In Britain until an Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, ship-owners could load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in the dangerously unstable condition.
		The Greek navies that fought in an Peloponnesian War used triremes, for did an Romans contesting an Battle of Actium.
		The use of large numbers of cannon from an 16th century meant that maneuverability took second place to broadside weight; this led to an dominance of an sail-powered warship.
	metal-detector.2minutes2.com /Weapons/Ship (3615 words)

	Mobilisation of the Royal Navy - Responsibility
		Interesting discussion (from WW1-L) which investigates the man responsible for ordering the mobilisation of the Royal Navy squadrons at the very start of the war.
		It was the First Sea Lord, Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, who made the decision to delay the dispersion of the fleet and the demobilisation of the Reserves, NOT Churchill.
		My friends kept these as a check during teh days that followed and ticked them off one by one as they were settled.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/mobrn01.htm (1235 words)

	Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Image:US riverboat using napalm in Vietnam.jpgthumb250pxRiverboat of the U.S. brownwater navy deploying [[napalm during the Vietnam War.]]
		[http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/women/work/work012800.html] The UK Royal Navy has similar restrictions, although other NATO members such as Canada, Spain and Norway have opened submarine service to women.
		Image:HMS Invincible.jpgrightthumb250px[[HMS Invincible (R05)HMS ''Invincible'', Royal Navy Invincible class aircraft carrier]]
	q-basic.xodox.de /Navy (2613 words)

	Navy info here at en.beatout.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Navy Signs $72.8M Contract Military contractor Raytheon Co. landed a $72.8m contract from the US Navy to provide the Royal Australian Navy with radar equipment.
		US Navy Pulls Ship Out Of Haifa While more Hizbullah rockets land in Israel, The US Navy has moved a ship docked in Haifa out of harms way.
		UPDATE: CNN Breaking News 1:09 PM: Israeli officials say a rocket has hit Haifa, a major port city in northern Israel,...
	en.beatout.info /Navy (3528 words)

	List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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		List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
		This is a list of frigates of the Royal Navy in chronological order.
	www.sanmateocaus.com /info/List_of_frigates_of_the_Royal_Navy (297 words)

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