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  DANFS - USS Argus
The second Argus (PY-14) - a yacht built in 1929 at Kiel, Germany, by Germaniawerft as Haida - was acquired by the Navy on 25 October 1940 from Mrs.
Argus arrived in San Francisco on 19 February 1941 and began duty patrolling San Francisco Bay as a unit of the Patrol Force, 12th Naval District.
Argus was returned to the Navy on 16 March 1942; and after reconversion at the General Engineering and Drydock Co., she was recommissioned at San Francisco on 18 April 1942.
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  USS ARGUS STAR TREK RPG
In addition, USS Argus is one of the few that is now incorporating alien technology as part of its armament: this include the phase polaron beam system of the Breen.
The USS Argus now incorporates a regenerative shielding system, a recent advancement that allows a large fraction of the impact energy to be absorbed by the shield generators and reused to reinforce the shield layers.
USS Argus do not normally carry mines as part of her armament but is capable of deploying and/or controlling them should a mission requires it.
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 USS Argus (1803) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first USS Argus was a brig in the United States Navy during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812.
Argus was laid down as Merrimack on 12 May 1803 at Boston, Massachusetts, by Edmund Hartt; renamed Argus on 4 June 1803; and launched on 21 August 1803.
Argus continued to cruise the Mediterranean until the summer of 1806.
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 USS ARGUS STAR TREK RPG
The normal operating routines of the USS Argus are in compliance with the set parameters and standard operating procedures of Starfleet.
USS Argus is currently serving as a test bed for integration of bio-neural computer systems on board older ships.
USS Argus is equipped several types of probes, each optimize for different missions.
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 Untitled Document
In 2365 he left Starfleet Intelligence and was assigned to the Dawnstar-class USS Argus (NCC-70124) as Tactical Officer.
The relationship is believed to have ended in 2373 when McDonald left to join the USS Argus (NCC-75124), which ironically was the same vessel Patel would find himself assigned to a year later.
Stardate 42298.4: Assigned to the USS Argus (NCC-70124) as Tactical Officer.
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 The Starfleet Museum - Pyotr Velikiy and Constitution Classes
USS ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701), named for the 20th century aircraft carrier of the American Navy, followed in November 2245 and was placed under the command of Commodore April as a reward for his rescuing the CONSTITUTION-class development project from almost certain failure.
USS INTREPID (NCC-1708), with a crew of 400 Vulcans, was overpowered and destroyed by a immense single-celled organism of unknown origin.
The remains of USS VIRGINIA (NCC-1715) and her crew were found scattered over a cubic light-year of interstellar space near the Keshab Rho XVI system; the cause of her destruction was never determined.
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 USS Albany
The first Argus-a brig-was laid down as Merrimack on 12 May 1803 at Boston, Mass., by Edmund Hartt; renamed Argus on 4 June 1803; and launched on 21 August 1803.
Argus continued to cruise the Mediterranean until the sum mer of 1806.
At 6:45, the British ship ip was in position to board; but, as her seamen began to storm on board, Argus struck her colors.
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 The Museum Sage
USS Brooklyn- During the Battle of Mobile Bay, it struck several underwater mines at the entrance to the bay.
USS Cuttlefish (SS-171) and USS Spadefish (SSN-668)-A cuttlefish is a small ten-armed creature that is a cousin to the squid.
USS Argus-Successful War of 1812 brig that was eventually captured by the British of the coast of Ireland.
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 - Star Trek Fan Fiction
The name of the ship is actually a reference to the HMS Argus, the first truly through deck aircraft carrier which saw action in both world wars.
Argus' crossover with Liberator I felt was very successful and I hope that someday we can do it again.
Argus and Liberty are very intertwined and there are very few stories from the second season onward that don't at least have a mention of someone aboard the Liberty.
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 The USS Liberty Inquiry Forum - Friendly Fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
USS Liberty was moving at approximately five knots and had been making just five knots for the four hours prior to the attack.
They willingly planned and approached the USS Liberty...no matter who they thought the Liberty was, or what they thought she was doing, they planned and attacked the ship.
Friendly fire would be if during the attack on the USS Liberty, a stray rocket from a plane hit another Israeli plane, killing its pilot.
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 HD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After serving at various stations in the United States, O'Bannon was assigned to duty on board the USS Adams early in 1802, and sailed for the Mediterranean in June of that year.
He was transferred to the USS Constitution on 22 October 1804, and to the USS Argus on 26 October 1804.
During a storm one of the ships, the USS Philadelphia, went on the rocks off Tripoli and her crew was captured and imprisoned at Derne.
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 USS O'Bannon (DD 987)
USS O'BANNON was last homeported in Mayport, Fla., and is scheduled to be transfered to Turkey.
Presley Neville O'Bannon was born on 1776, in Fauquier County, Virginia.
While serving as the Marine Officer on the later vessel, he was selected for a mission that later was commemorated in the colors of the Marine Corps and recorded in the Marine Hymn in the words "to the shores of Tripoli".
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 USS Neosho AO-143
USS Stickell (DD 888) and USS Waldron (DD 699) joined the formation on the 10th of September and Commander Second Fleet, embarked in the USS Newport News (CA 148) assumed duties as SOPA.
The crew arrived onboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lake Champlain at 9:26 and the spacecraft was recovered at 11:50.
USS Neosho AO-143 was there in support of the task force.
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 Titans Tower: Headquarters
U.S.S. The Titans Satellite base was a space station originally launched into space by the Balkan crimemocracy, Zandia, for the purpose of establishing a planet-wide, militarily overwhelming high ground.
Ultimately, the Checkmate office tasked the USS Argus to the Titans, to be used for their purposes, with the stipulation that they would also oversee the long-term storage and archiving of ultra-dangerous, alien or meta-human-originated weaponry.
Personnel transportation to and from The Argus was primarily via a matter transporter device formerly belonging to the meta-human group called the Justice League of America.
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 USS Norton Sount AVM-1 Ray Plumlee Personal Web Site
In 1958 Norton Sound participated in project "Argus" From a position south of the Falkland Islands she launched three rockets which carried low-yield atomic warheads.
Analysis of data from project "Argus" contributed materially to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
Completing the conversion, USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) was re-commissioned on 20 June 1964, and home ported in Baltimore to conduct tests of the system in and around the Chesapeake Bay.
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 USS Allen DD-66   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We are seeking information on the USS Allen DD-66 and her crews.
USS ALLEN DD66 was named after 2 Lieuts.
USS ALLEN was commissioned and assigned to the ATl.Fleet and served
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 USS Duncan
At half past 12 the Brig Argus came to off the Battery.
At half past 12, Capt. Sinclair (of the Argus) came on board.
At 7 the Argus made the signal 037.
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 Pearl Harbor vets recall shocking 'day of infamy'
"I was on the deck of the USS Tennessee, and saw a Japanese plane flying low overhead," said Lucchesi, who was serving as a gunner's mate, and later became a chief warrant officer.
The USS Tennessee was hit by bombs twice during the attack and suffered five casualties, but survived the onslaught.
Also, when the adjacent USS West Virginia sank, it pinned the USS Tennessee to the two concrete quays to which it was moored.
www.arguscourier.com /news/news/pearlharbor051207.html   (0 words)

  
 War of 1812 : Naval Duels : The Napoleonic Guide :
The American's sails and masts, however, had been so badly damaged it was unable to sail away from an arriving British 74-gunner and it was forced to surrender.
The captured vessel was reflagged and served Britain with distinction.
The 18-gun Argus was enjoying a very profitable commerce-raiding voyage in the English Channel - in which she had sunk or taken 20 prize ships - when she ran into the Pelican.
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 'To the Shores of Tripoli': Presley Neville O'Bannon -- The Wild Geese Today
Presley O'Bannon, a 29-year-old Irish-American from Marshall, in Fauquier County, Virginia, was a Marine lieutenant serving on the USS Argus.
The young officer was given command of one Navy midshipman and seven Marines and assigned the daunting task of accompanying Eaton and Hamet and their motley force on the perilous five-hundred-plus mile trek from Alexandria to Derna.
His defiant reply was, "My head or yours." Shortly after this, the attacking force was bolstered by the arrival of the USS Argus, USS Hornet, and USS Nautilus in the harbor.
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 Heart of Texas Marine Corps League
The American frigate USS Essex, under the command of Captain David Porter, went on to the Pacific, in an attempt to harrass British shipping.
On June 1, 1813, the frigate USS Chesapeake was captured by the British frigate HMS Shannon, a vessel of equal size, as it attempted to leave Boston Harbor, and this somewhat counterbalanced the moral effect of previous disasters.
A single instance of the audacity of the American cruisers was the capture of the American sloop USS Argus by the more heavily armed British sloop HMS Pelican at St David's Head in Wales on August 14, 1813.
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 Original Star Trek Fan Fiction: The Adventures of Argus
The Adventures of Argus is a Star Trek Fan Fiction Site devoted to the Sovereign-class starship USS Argus and her crew.
Join the Adventure as Captain Jonozia Lex and the crew of the USS Argus defend the Federation from the overwhelming threat of the Dominion and explore the mysteries of the universe beyond.
Kate Sheridan comes face to face with her past when she and several other Argus crewmembers are sent to recapture a hyjacked Federation starship.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:32:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Operation ARGUS After writing an article about the X-Planes for the Polish aviation magazine "Lotnictwo", I did a little more research on Lockheed's X-17 rockets, which were later also used in the test program 'Operation Argus', involving exo-atmospheric nuclear explosions.
For ARGUS II, twelve sounding rockets were launched, between August 30 and September 2, 1958, five from Wallops Island, four from Patrick AFB, and three from Ramey AFB.
Three additional launch attempts, carrying the ARGUS radiation measurement payload, were conducted on August 25, August 26 and August 28, but also failed to reach orbit.
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 ‘To the Shores of Tripoli’
Declaring that America would spend “millions for defense but not one cent for tribute,” President Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy to the Barbary Coast.
The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS Intrepid, USS Chesapeake, USS Argus and the USS Syren all saw action and the Navy’s Marines in 1805 marched across the desert into Tripolitania, now Libya, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and freeing all American slaves.
Naval bombardments and Marine shore raids resulted in the crumbling of the Barbary States, who then agreed to quit their actions of piracy and enslavement of seamen.
www.sacunion.com /pages/columns/articles/8948   (777 words)

  
 Michael Axe - Star Trek fan fiction stories by Michael Axe. Featuring fan fiction from Star Trek ( Kirk Spock Bones ...
Now back in command of the newly refitted USS Argus, Lex's diplomatic duties are interrupted by an urgent mission to prevent a renegade Starfleet officer from defecting across the Romulan border.
The crews of the Argus and Odyssey have tracked down the missing USS Argus and now being work on a plan to recapture her.
With tensions running high,one of the Taskforce, the USS Odyssey, is suddenly disabled and the Argus goes to her aid.
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Subject: RE: USS Delphy Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:40:00 -0400 Recieved from the Naval History Center in the Washington Navy Yard.
Subject: RE: USS Delphy USS DELPHY was named for Midshipman Richard Delphy, who received his appointment 18 May 1809, and served with distinction in UNITED STATES during the engagement with HMS MACEDONIAN on 25 October 1812.
He was killed in the action in which ARGUS triumphed of HMS PELICAN on 14 August 1813.
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 argus
In each of these tests, the task force launched from the missile trials ship, USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), a specially modified X-17a three-stage ballistic missile carrying a low-yield nuclear warhead, which was detonated high in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
This report on Operation ARGUS is one of many volumes that are the product of the NTPR.
Information from which this report was compiled was primarily extracted from planning and after-action reports of Task Force 88 (TF 88) and its subordinate organizations.
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 Marine Corps Legacy Museum - Battle History of the USMC - War with Tripoli or Barbary Pirates War 1801-1805
A plan was submitted by William Eaton, (to replace the belligerent Pasha Yusuf Karamanti with his brother Hamet,)  and was approved by President Jefferson.
Eaton sailed for Alexandria aboard USS Argus, which had a detachment of Marines commanded by Lt. Presly Neville O'Bannon.
On 29 Nov. O'Bannon, a Sergeant, and 6 Marines landed with Eaton and by March 8, set out with Hamet, and 500 men, some Greek mercenaries paid for with American gold: along with 107 camels overland through the desert to capture Tripoli and install Hamet as the new ruler.
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 History for USS Tarawa - CV 40
We went down to Paris Island, and I was stationed aboard the USS Tarawa -CV40.
The USS Tarawa Veterans Association is looking for shipmates for the reunion April 29, 30 and May 1 and 2.
in Norfolk, Va. All former ships company, air crew, Marine detachments and officers who served aboard the USS Tarawa from commissioning in 1945 to final retirement in 1960 are...
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 Caledonia Argus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Hammell, returned from a 10-month deployment in the Persian Gulf in mid-May. Dr. Hammell, medical officer aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, was greeted by his wife, Heather, upon his return to US soil.
Hammell was one of more than 10,000 Pacific Fleet sailors and Marines aboard the ships of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Battle Group and USS Bellau Wood Amphibious Ready Group who participated in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
As the battle group neared completion of its deployment in December of 2002, the USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group was recalled to duty in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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 Battles for the year 1812
10th August, USS Julia and USS Prowler captured
13th August, Blakeford, MD 14th August, USS Argus vs. HMS Pelican
3rd September, Fort Madison, AL 5th September, USS Enterprise vs. HMS Boxer
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 VS Trading Card - USS Argus from DC Booster
But Argus actually negates both of the individual effects, so you get to draw 1 card out of 4 per turn.
use terra to KO it and stun someone, then flip over another USS Argus, activate, and draw another card from the top 4.
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