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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - United States Navy
		United States Navy (also known as USN or the U.S. Navy) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations.
		The United States went to war in 1846 against Mexico and the Navy contributed by instituting a blockade, assisting the American takeover of California, and participating in the U.S. military's first large-scale amphibious operation at Vera Cruz.
		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.
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	United Kingdom - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
		The climate of the United Kingdom is mild relative to its latitude.
		The British sovereign is head of state and as such is, in law, the head of the executive, an integral part of the legislature, head of the judiciary, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Crown, and the “supreme governor” of the established Church of England and the Church of Scotland.
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	Catesby ap Roger Jones: The First Confederate Ironclad, formerly the United States Steam Frigate, "Merrimac"
		In justice to them it should be stated that it was not easy to pilot a vessel of our great draft under favorable circumstances, and that the difficulties were much increased by the absence of lights, buoys, etc., to which they had been accustomed.
		She was a sailing frigate of 1,716 tons, mounting two ten-inch pivots and twenty-two nine-inch guns.
		The father of one of the midshipmen was in the United States navy.
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	United States Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 navy." Acting on this authority Congress ordered construction and manning of six frigates ; one of the original six the USS Constitution familiarly known as "Old Ironsides" survives this day.
		The naval jack of the United States a blue field with 50 white stars to the canton of the ensign both appearance and size.
	www.freeglossary.com /United_States_Navy (2961 words)

	What You Need to Know About the United States Navy
		That is recognized as the official birthday of the United States Navy.
		BB is the United States Navy's designation for "Battleship." The navy always uses at least two letters in their designations; hence DD for destroyer, SS for submarine, etc. Today there are more designations and they are often more than two letters; such as SSBN for ballistic missile nuclear submarines.
		Frigates evolved from what used to be called "Destroyer Escorts." The fill primarily an escort role in the navy, conducting anti-submarine warfare and some limited missile operations.
	www.factplace.com /usnavy.htm (1404 words)

	USS New York
		The second New York, a 36-gun frigate, was built by public subscription by the citizens of New York for the United States Government; laid down in August 1798 by Peck and Carpenter, New York City; launched 24 April 1800; and commissioned in October 1800; Captain Richard V. Morris in command.
		One of the group of five frigates built by the States for the Federal Government to supplement the original six provided by the Act of 17 March 1794, New York entered the Navy when the "quasi-war" with France was being fought in the Atlantic and Caribbean where French warships preyed on American commerce.
		The frigate was burned by the British in the capture of Washington, D.C. on 24 August 1814.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/newyork_frigate.html (781 words)

	Constellation
		The first Constellation, a frigate authorized by congressional enactment of 27 March 1794, was the design of naval constructors, J. Humphreys and J. Fox whose plans were altered in the execution by builder, D. Stodder, and supervisor of construction, Captain T. Truxtun.
		With this demonstration of United States naval prowess, Decatur was enabled to exact treaties of peace from Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
		Returning to the United States in November 1831, she underwent minor repair and departed again for her Mediterranean station in April 1832 where she remained until an outbreak of cholera forced her home in November 1834.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/constell.htm (1635 words)

	Six original United States frigates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Constitution, one of the Original Six frigates of the US Navy.
		The "Original Six" were the six original United States frigates of the United States Navy, first authorized by the Congress with the Naval Act of 1794 on March 27, 1794 at a cost of $688,888.82.
		The only surviving ship among the Original Six is Constitution, which is still in commission and is the oldest commissioned ship in the world that remains afloat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Six_original_United_States_frigates (124 words)

	Chi Yang [Knox] Frigate - Republic of China [Taiwan] Navy
		The primary mission of these newer frigates is sea control, particularly the capability to protect the sea lanes beyond the range of coastal aircraft.
		In 1998 the United States agreed to provide four Knox class frigates to Taiwan as part of the third batch of delivery and to sell all six of the same class of frigates which were previously leased to Taiwan.
		Two of the four Knox-class frigates were scheduled to arrive in Taiwan in September 1999 to enter service; while another two frigates, to be bought at bargain prices, will be scrapped and their parts used as logistics support for other frigates of same class.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rocn/chi-yang.htm (376 words)

	The Flagship
		This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the Navy.
		The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress “to provide and maintain a Navy.” In the year 1794 Congress first acted on that power, in response to international crises, by authorizing the procuring and manning of six frigates.
		From 1794 until 1798, administration of the naval affairs of the United States was the responsibility of the Department of War.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2004/oct142004_8.shtml (730 words)

	The Crisis by Thomas Paine
		If he says he is against the united independence of the continent, he is to all intents and purposes against her in all the rest; because this last comprehends the whole.
		The encouragement and protection of the good subjects of any state, and the suppression and punishment of bad ones, are the principal objects for which all authority is instituted, and the line in which it ought to operate.
		The thing which first presents itself in inspecting the state of the currency, is, that we have too much of it, and that there is a necessity of reducing the quantity, in order to increase the value.
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	CHAPTER IV
		When Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at his Long Island home that night received the news of the North Korean attack he reportedly burst out over the telephone, "This is war against the United Nations." [5] He called a meeting of the Security Council for the next day.
		ROK soldiers and unit leaders fired at the boatmen and, using threats, tried to commandeer transportation from among the ferries and various kinds of craft engaged in transporting soldiers and refugees across the river.
		The United Kingdom Defense Committee on 28 June placed British naval forces in Japanese waters (1 light fleet carrier, 2 cruisers, and 5 destroyers and frigates) under the control of the U.S. naval commander.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/BOOKS/KOREA/20-2-1/Sn04.htm (5344 words)

	TBK - A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES II Part 3
		This deliberate affront to the United States was denounced by Adams in his first message to Congress; but he sent to Paris a special commission composed of two Federalists and one Republican, [17] in an earnest effort to keep the peace.
		But the states and the people used pounds, shillings, pence, and Spanish dollars, and it was several years before the states, by law, required their officers to levy taxes and keep accounts in dollars and cents (Virginia in 1792, Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1795, New York and Vermont in 1797, New Jersey in 1799).
		The doctrine that all men are born politically equal was being put into practice, and the states had begun to reform their old constitutions or to adopt new ones, abolishing religious qualifications for officeholders or voters, [12] and doing away with the property qualifications formerly required of voters.
	www.truthbeknown.com /a_brief_history_of_the_united_states_ii_03.html (5690 words)

	Houghton Mifflin Electronic Publishing - Ships Of The World by Lincoln P. Paine
		One of the U.S. Navy's six original frigates, authorized by Congress specifically as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean, USS Constitution was launched in 1797.
		Though all six were fast, heavily built frigates with a flush spar deck above the gundeck, United States, Constitution, and President were nominally rated as 44s, but mounted thirty 24-replaced bypdr and twenty to twenty-two 12-pdr long guns (later short-range 42-pdr.
		A temporary peace with the Barbary States was achieved before she was finished, but Constitution was commissioned in time for the Quasi-War with France, during which she captured a number of smaller ships and privateers in the West Indies.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /epub/ships.shtml (1350 words)

	History Of Armed Forces Day, Armed Forces Day 2006, Armed Forces Day 2007, About Armed Forces Day, Armed Forces Day ...
		The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aviation branch of the United States armed forces.
		The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military.
		Both the Marine Corps and the United States Navy fall under the umbrella of the Department of the Navy.
	www.cardfountain.com /holiday_info/armed-forces-day.php?aid=103015 (764 words)

	The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
		While the Naval Act of 1794 had called for the building and manning of a squadron of frigates, it had not established a naval department to oversee their operation.
		Under Stoddert, the original frigates called for by the Navy Act of 1794 were completed.
		This ultimately led to the establishment of a system of United States Navy Shipyards, including Gosport in Virginia, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Portsmouth in New Hampshire, Brooklyn in New York, and Charleston in Massachusetts.
	www.mariner.org /usnavy/05/05d.htm (775 words)

	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Other sites - District of Columbia)
		Carved on the District side was "Jurisdiction of the United States" and the number of the stone; on the opposite side of the stone was carved "Maryland" or "Virginia." For those facing Virginia, "1791," the year of erection, was carved; for those facing Maryland, "1792."
		Attended by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China, the conference created the Dumbarton Oaks Plan, which served as a basis for the charter of the United Nations.
		On the grounds, which are open to the public, is an original greenhouse, containing an orangery, a brook having miniature waterfalls, an orchard, a yew walk, a waterwheel and millstone, stables, and a caretaker's house.
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	Docs 45-65
		The United States in recognition of the need for improvement of the patrol and escort capability of the Imperial Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf proposes to furnish two patrol frigates.
		This undertaking of the Government of the United States is, of course, subject to the approval by the United States Congress of annual appropriations of the necessary funds.
		If the United States took a position on vital questions that might be introduced in the United Nations which made it necessary to introduce the direct negotiations resolution, they would have to do so.
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	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The original RfP was to be issued in early 2002; however, budgetary constrictions, as well as a halt on new projects, delayed the decision.
		In the event only 10 units of the proposed Frigate Dozorny are built at a cost of around $200 million each, this would still equate to more than $2 billion for the entire project.
		The first unit is scheduled to be in service by August, with the sixth and final unit delivered by August 2006.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/may_05_42.php (859 words)

	PORTSMOUTH PLAYED A BIG PART IN BIRTH OF OUR NATION'S NAVY
		Joining her were the frigates United States from Philadelphia; Constitution from Baltimore; Constitution from Boston; Congress from Portsmouth, N.H.; and President, New York.
		The United States was left behind during the federal evacuation of Gosport in April 1861.
		She was later recommissioned as the Confederate receiving ship CSS United States or the ``Confederate States.'' During Confederate withdrawal from Gosport, she was sunk in the Elizabeth River as an obstruction in May 1862.
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	Who Has the Best Frigates? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some of the most modern frigates today have become very capable multi-mission ships, a contrast with the original frigates, which were considered an evolved destroyer escort, a World War II design intended for escorting convoys and hunting submarines.
		The Adelaide-class frigates were Perry-class frigates, but unlike the American Perry-class frigates, which have has their Mk 13 launchers removed, the Australians have upgraded these frigates to carry the SM-2 anti-aircraft missile, and eight VLS cells have been added, carrying 32 ESSM anti-ship missiles.
		The Adelaide-class frigates, however, are a poignant and haunting reminder of what the United States Navy could have made with their Perry class frigates.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/20056613621.asp (728 words)

	Welcome to SixthFleet.Com, the Cyberspace Home of author David E. Meadows
		It is operated by the United States Air Force, has armor plating, and is heavily armed with 7.62MM and.50 caliber machine guns.
		Sideboys were original purpose was to help pull the senior officer up over the side of the sailing ship and it was assumed that the more senior the officer the heavier the gentleman would be.
		The United States Marines fighter aircraft of choice are the F/A-18 and Harrier.
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	American Flag
		The origins of the three principal squadrons of the Royal Navy in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and earlier nineteenth centuries seems to stem from a reorganization originally undertaken by the General at Sea Robert Blake about 1650.
		Vice Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, KCB, Viscount Nelson of the Nile, Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, Duke of Bronte.
		When the first Naval Bill was passed under President Washington, it specified the construction of six frigates, three of forty-four guns and three of thirty-six.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/usa/usflag.htm (658 words)

	Asia Times
		Moreover, because of tremendous pressure from mainland China, the original contract only provided for the sale of the frigates and their engines, without any arms, surveillance equipment or combat-management systems.
		At the time of the frigate sale, Deviers-Joncour was employed as a highly paid lobbyist by Elf-Acquitaine, a French state-owned oil company that has traditionally been an arm of French foreign policy, occasionally including arms sales.
		In July last year six former Taiwanese naval officers were indicted on charges of malpractice and forging documents in connection with the scandal.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DH21Ad02.html (1031 words)

	LEANDER class
		The Leander class never had a frigate type number, in particular not “Type 12M.” Type-numbering of new designs was functionally irrelevant after the RN abandoned the mobilization strategy in 1954.
		This total of 44 set the post-1945 record for construction to one design among frigates and larger warships outside the United States and Russia.
		The first three Leanders to be modernized were withdrawn from service during 1970–71 even while the final four of the class were being built largely to the then-obsolescent original design.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/rn/frigates/leander (1026 words)

	Israel's role in China's new warplane - OD Board
		While the United States gets certain benefits from its 50-year partnership with Israel — political leverage, a proving ground for new weapons and intelligence cooperation among them — critics point to a serious downside.
		Its weapons buttress the arsenals of nations such as China that the United States considers strategic competitors, alarming U.S. military planners.
		Opinions posted at Original Dissent may or may not be the opinions of Original Dissent or its administrators.
	www.originaldissent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3828 (1634 words)

	Terrorism - British Military Reform
		The Ministry of Defense decided that the United Kingdom’s forces now needed to be capable of conducting two concurrent small-scale operations or one full-scale operation.
		Six new roll-on roll-off transport ships are also to be procured to fill the sealift requirement.
		The United Kingdom also played the leading role in establishing and deploying the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which was deployed to Afghanistan in December 2001 to assist the new Afghan Interim Authority to maintain security in Kabul and the surrounding areas.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/uk-reform-pr.cfm (2645 words)

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