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  USS Austin
Austin remained at Galveston through the first five months of 1840 recruiting officers and men and training them in the ways of the sea before embarking upon her first cruise late in June.
Austin and the rest of the squadron remained at the town for several days to assure collection of the Texas Navy's entire share of the ransom and then the fever-wracked squadron departed, manned by 30 men among the three ships.
Austin and her consorts arrived in Galveston at the beginning of May. On the 7th, they shoved off for various American gulf ports to refit.
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  Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Austin is a word that may refer to various things.
Steve Austin (fictional character), the lead character played by Lee Majors in the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man".
USS Austin, a sloop-of-war (originally in the Texas Navy)
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 USS Austin
The first USS Austin[?], originally a sloop-of-war[?] of the Texas Navy, was named in honor of Stephen Fuller Austin.
The second USS Austin (DE-15)[?], a destroyer escort[?], honored Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin.
The third USS Austin (LPD-4), an amphibious transport dock, was named for the capital of Texas.
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 Spanish-American War Ship Models
The USS Oregon run from the Pacific to the Atlantic at the outbreak of hostilities was a highlight of the conflict.
The USS Brooklyn was the flagship of "Flying Squadron" under the command of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley.
USS Winslow was built at Baltimore, Maryland and commissioned on 29 December 1897 at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
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 Haze Gray & Underway Photo Galleries
USS Coral Sea (CV 43) - from commissioning to her ongoing scrapping.
USS Wisconsin - a look at the veteran battleship at her new home on the Norfolk waterfront.
USS Constitution Restoration - the famous frigate during and after her recent restoration.
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 USS Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first USS Austin, originally a sloop-of-war of the Texas Navy, was named in honor of Stephen Fuller Austin.
The second USS Austin (DE-15), a destroyer escort, honored Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin.
The third USS Austin (LPD-4), an amphibious transport dock, was named for the capital of Texas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Austin   (125 words)

  
 USS Austin
Austin arrived back in Texas in June of 1836 and, supported by his two former colleagues in the United States, ran for the presidency of the republic.
Austin is also the name of the city that serves as the capital of Texas and the seat of government for Travis County.
The first Austin-a sloop of war constructed in 1839 at Baltimore, Md., by Schott and Whitney for the Texas Navy under the name Texas-was delivered and commissioned on 5 January 1840 at Galveston, Republic of Texas, Capt. Edwin W. Moore, TN, in command though not present.
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 Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Austin is situated on the Colorado River, with three lakes within the city limits: Town Lake, Lake Austin, and Lake Travis.
Austin is administered by a city council of seven members, each of them elected by the entire city, and by an elected mayor.
Austin points out that philosophers of language gave most of their attention to those sentences which state some fact, but that these form only a small part of the range of tasks that can be performed by saying something.
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 Divers Gallery :: Naval Sea Systems Command
USS Maine (SSBN 741) comes into Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, where she later hosted tours in celebration of 100 years of US Navy submarines and the 200th anniversary of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The Civil War-era sloop of war Constellation is moored in the Baltimore, Md., Inner Harbor.
USS Denver (LPD 9) departed Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) on July 27 "all smiles" and eager to return to its homeport in San Diego.
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 austin - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Austin is also a brand owned by the Kellogg Company.
Colonel Steve Austin, the lead character played by Lee Majors in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man.
Austin, Texas is the largest "Austin" in the United States and is named for the above Stephen F. Austin.
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 Jane Austin
2) " Austin" -- As to Jane Austin
Austin is also a brandowned by the Kellogg Company.
A sloop-of-war (originally in the Texas Navy), USS Austin
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 The Voyage of the USS Oregon, 1898   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The thirteen inch guns of her and her sisters, USS MASSACHUSETTS and USS INDIANA were the largest guns in the U.S. fleet.
After the loss of the USS MAINE in Havana harbor, and as tensions rose between the United States and Spain, it was realized that the OREGON should be concentrated with the other capital ships of the U.S. Navy, as suggested by the highly respected works of naval planner, Rear Admiral Alfred Mahan.
The following are the main legs of the cruise of the OREGON in her fabled voyage from the west to the east coast of the United States by way of the Strait of Magellan.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Austin
Austin, Texas, a city in the United States and the state capital of Texas.
USS Austin (sloop), a sloop-of-war (originally in the Texas Navy)
Austin (also spelled Austen) is a shortened form of Augustine.
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 Connecticut, Donald Cook
The USS Connecticut (SSN 22), built by Electric Boat, has been commissioned at Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.; she will be the last submarine to be commissioned in the U.S. Navy this century.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise--on hand at the outset of the operation and which launched the majority of the strikes--is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War and of Operation Praying Mantis (Persian Gulf, 1988).
Austin shielded the Marine from the detonation of a grenade and was mortally wounded when he threw himself into the line of fire of an enemy soldier attempting to shoot the unconscious Marine.
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 PAL: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Philip was the eldest of the five children of Pierre Freneau and Agnes Watson (Austin 65), and the first to use the spelling Freneau (Bowden 15).
Philip's mother, however, decided that Philip should continue his education and sent him along to Nassau Hall in due course, but with a tacit understanding between mother and son that he was to seek a degree in Divinity.
While Freneau sailed to and fro between the balmy Carib and the Delaware Bay, hostilities between Mother England and her colonies were growing to a fighting pitch.
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 The US Navy -- USS Wasp (LHD 1)
The USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Groups and USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Expeditionary Strike Group entered the Persian Gulf May 23.
The guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) responded to a distress call May 20 from Amerauto, a 34-foot sailing vessel.
USS JOHN C. STENNIS, At Sea (NNS) -- Vice President Dick Cheney visited the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) while underway in the Persian Gulf to meet with more than 5,000 Sailors and Marines on May 11.
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 Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Austin, originally a sloop-of-war of the Texas Navy, was named in honor of Stephen Fuller Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A month after police officers and dispatchers traded e-mails joking about a fire at a nightclub popular among fl residents, officials asked the Justice Department to investigate the police department.
Austin Peck will be returning to Days of Our Lives this summer, where he will once again take on the role of Austin Reed, Billie Reed's younger brother.
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 Read about Austin at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Austin and learn about Austin here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The largest city named "Austin" in the United States is
Austin, Texas, named for the above Stephen F. Austin.
There are several other US communities named "Austin":
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 USS Austin sloop-of-war Model Ship
The ship, constructed in Baltimore by the firm of Shott and Whitney, was 125 feet in length and thirty-one feet across the beam, with a displacement of 600 tons and a draft of 12½ feet.
She carried a crew of twenty-three officers and warrant officers and 151 sailors and marines and was armed with sixteen medium twenty-four-pound cannons, two eighteen-pound medium cannons, and two eighteen-pound long cannons.
USS Austin was the first ship named for Steven F. Austin, a Texas patriot.
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 The Austin Chronicle Columns: Day Trips
The USS Lexington used about seven tanks of fuel despite serving in active duty longer than any other aircraft carrier in the history of naval aviation.
As the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, the ship that participated in nearly every major operation in the Pacific Theater during World War II has become a monument to the men and women who served their country.
This USS Lexington is actually the fifth war ship named for the Revolutionary War battle.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-11-09/cols_daytrips.html   (987 words)

  
 Houston's Ships 1/1200 Ships & Flags
HSS46 USS BENTON (ironclad gunboat) and USS TUSCABIA and USS CHILLICOTHI (ironclads)
HSS50 USS LEXINGTON, USS TYLER, and USS CONESTOGA (sidewheel gunboats)
HSS55 USS GALENA (ironclad) and USS UNADILLA (gunboat)
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 1953 Recommissioning Ceremony
As an attack aircraft carrier of the United States Navy the U.S.S. HORNET provides mobile base facilities for the effective employment of the military potential of embarked aircraft squadrons and detachments.
The USS HORNET, eighth ship of her name in the United States Navy, has been bequeathed a glorious heritage and worthy traditions by her illustrious predecessors.
The first HORNET was a ten-gun sloop engaged in the hazardous duty of guarding the Delaware Capes in 1777.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Austin
An Anglicization of the name of Saint Augustine, noticeable in the English version "Austin Friars" to refer to the Augustinian Order.
John Arnold Austin, United States Navy warrant officer
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/au/Austin?title=Austin,_Nevada   (116 words)

  
 Texas Monthly: Texana Ranger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The USS Texas home page has some nice components, but most of the site is under construction.
This USS Texas, commissioned in 1895, was the sister ship of the ill-fated USS Maine, the ship that blew up in Cuba and started the Spanish-American War.
The first USS Texas fought in that war and was, in effect, America’s first battleship, having been commissioned a year before the Maine.
www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/texana/texana.efeb.98.php   (638 words)

  
 navychronology1864a
After Hunley sank the preceding fall for the second time (see 15 October 1863), she was raised, a new volunteer crew trained, and for months under the cover of darkness moved out into the harbor where she awaited favorable conditions and a target.
Lancaster at Acapulco, Mexico: "Such is the present state of affairs at Acapulco that it is believed by both native and foreign populations that the presence of man-of-war alone prevented an attempt to sack and destroy the town by the Indians in the interior, encouraged by the governor, General Alvarez.
The "David" was sighted some 50 yards to port and a heavy volley of musket fire directed at her, but Tomb held his small craft on course.
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 Bergstrom Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It was activated on September 19, 1942, as Del Valle Army Air Base on 3,000 acres leased from the city of Austin.
After July 1966 it was under the control of the Tactical AirCommand and housed the headquarters for the Twelfth AirForce, which was responsible for all Tactical Air Command reconnaissance, fighter, and airlift operations west of theMississippi River.
The city approached the AirForce in 1978 to propose a shared civil-military airport at Bergstrom, but the originalproposal and further ones in 1981 and 1984 were allrejected.
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 ROBERT BARBOUR
Taking part is an escort sloop of the Black Swan class and a Sunderland from 201 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command.
USS Tang, The Life Guard of Truk Atoll by Robert Barbour.
On 29th and 30th April 1944, while surfaced close to jagged reefs, and Japanese shore guns, the USS Tang rescued 22 downed flyers from Task Force 58s strikes against enemy positions on the islands - This was the largest rescue of airmen by a submarine in the war.
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 PAL: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
During his time at Penlopen Latin, Philip's father died (Austin 73).
He said his employers were "gentlemen of New York: bullies, merchants, and scoundrels" (Austin 80).
He discovered that he enjoyed it and eventually took master's papers (Austin 83).
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 Buddhist Temple Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Some Buddhistschools do employ deities and celestial protectors in their practices, but these are generally considered to be emanations of themeditator's own mi...
An Anglicization of the name of Saint Augustine, noticeablein the English version "Austin Friars" to refer to the AugustinianOrder.
Austin is also a brandowned by the Kellogg Company.
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 What's New? - 2006 Archive # 2
USS Allen (Destroyer # 66), which bore his name, was posted earlier this year.
USS Benicia of 1869 leads off this list, followed by USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser # 7), which was renamed Pueblo later in its career.
The final two ships are USS Inca (IX-229), which provides an interesting tale of a ship which was apparently forgotten by a rather busy Navy Department, and USS LST-823.
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 The Battle for Hampton Roads
USS Monitor Versus CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) and the Battle for Hampton Roads, 8-9 March 1862: Selected Original Documents
SIR: On Saturday, the 8th instant, at 12:45 p.m., three small steamers, in appearance, were discovered rounding Sewell's Point, and as soon as they came into full broadside view I was convinced that one was the iron-plated steam battery Merrimack, from the large size of her smoke pipe.
At this time it was reported to me that the Merrimack had passed the frigate Congress and run into the sloop of war Cumberland, and in fifteen minutes after I saw the latter going down by the head.
www.history.navy.mil /docs/civilwar/hamptonroads.htm   (7205 words)

  
 Super boxter on auction. Don't miss Your car. box buy console x, box, toyota, automatic, austin, lister, itala, axle, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Moses austin managed to buy land from the spanish government in texas.
In the street below the man upon the box, who was a travelling socialist orator, began to talk of the coming social revolution.
What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.
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