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  USS Eagle (1898) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eagle, a yacht, was built in 1890 as Almy by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware; purchased by the Navy 2 April 1898 and renamed Eagle; and commissioned 3 days later, Lieutenant W.
Eagle sailed from New York 17 April 1898 for duty with the North Atlantic Squadron on blockade and dispatch duty in Cuban waters.
Eagle returned to Norfolk 22 August 1898 to be fitted out for surveying duty, her principal employment through the remainder of her naval service.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Eagle_(1898)   (446 words)

  
 US Coast Guard Barque Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Eagle is a three-masted sailing Barque with 21,350 square feet of sail.
Eagle serves as a seagoing classroom for approximiately 175 cadets and instructors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Eagle's hull is built of steel, four-tenths of an inch thick.
www.uscg.mil /datasheet/wixtrain.htm   (532 words)

  
 USS Eagle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second Eagle was an 11-gun sloop in service on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812, captured by the British and then later recovered.
The third Eagle was a 12-gun brig also on Lake Champlain, launched and named while the second Eagle was in British hands.
The fourth Eagle was a yacht purchased in 1898 and in service until 1919.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Eagle   (169 words)

  
 USS Cowpens (CG 63)
The USS Cowpens deployed in 1996 for a six-month period to the Arabian Gulf as part of the Kitty Hawk Task Group.
The USS Cowpens (CG 63), took part, along with the USS Valley Forge (CG 50) and USS Jarrett (FFG 33), in a live standard-missile firing exercise in the Southern California operating areas in the fall of 1997.
The USS Cowpens underwent a regular overhaul that was scheduled to be completed in December 1999/ Southwest Marine, Inc., San Diego, CA, was awarded an $8,719,494 firm-fixed-price with performance fee contract for the overhaul; work for which was performed in San Diego, CA.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-63.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Coast Guard Academy USS Barque Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eagle's crew and officers shared experiences on small engines, celestial navigation, and taught a dozen soaking wet cadets the art of plugging a leak with a fire main driven leak box.
Eagle waited until it was sailing full and by, as close to the wind as possible, as mast captains trimmed their sails and reported as “manned and ready” to the bridge.
What stands out is that the ship is very “user friendly” or, more appropriately, “cadet friendly.” The primary purpose of Eagle is cadet training, so the cadet's job of seeking out the trainings that he or she needs and additionally achieving qualifications is much easier than I expected.
www.cga.edu /eagle/dailyposition/062404Journal.htm   (1160 words)

  
 USCG Eagle - Minicraft 1/350
She was seized as a war prize at the end of the war, the US Coast Guard christened her "Eagle", and with a mixed crew of USCG and German personnel, sailed her to the US in 1946.
Eagle is rigged as a bark (or barque), which means she has square sails on the fore and main masts, but only fore-and-aft sails on the mizzen.
The Eagle has a couple of pronounced raised rubrails along the hull, and these are reproduced in the model's upper hull.
smmlonline.com /reviews/models/uscgceagle/uscgceagle.html   (1427 words)

  
 DD 992 Fletcher
In late January 2003 the USS Fletcher took part in a sea swap where her crew was swapped out with the crew of the recently decommissioned USS Kinkaid.
Transferred to USS FLORIDA in December 1912, he was aboard that battleship during the occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April 1914.
For distinguished service as Commanding Officer USS BENHAM, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling European waters and protecting vitally important convoys, he was awarded the Navy Cross.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-992.htm   (1526 words)

  
 USS United States (1797) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first USS United States was a (A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser) frigate in the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy in 1797.
She was built at (Click link for more info and facts about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was (Click link for more info and facts about launched) launched there on 10 May 1797.
Macedonian was subsequently purchased by the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy, repaired, and had a long and honorable career under the American flag.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_united_states_(1797)2.htm   (3151 words)

  
 aircraft
USS Carl Vinson is one of the six aircarft carriers that consist of the United States Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet.
USS Carl Vinson is named after former Congressman Carl Vinson, who served as the chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee having great influence on the development and construction of the pre- and post- World War II United States Navy.
Upon landing on USS Carl Vinson, we are greeted by Rear Admiral Evan M. Chanik, Commander of Carrier Group Three which includes a carrier and her air wings, a destroyer, a few cruisers, submarines, and logistic ships.
www.webpages.uidaho.edu /~pzhu/aircraft/aircraft.html   (1103 words)

  
 Starfleet Biogrphy File: Kira Muniz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The both of them were serving aboard the USS Eagle, when they feel in love.
The USS Eagle was attacked by Cardassians in 2350.
The Captain of the USS Firefly, a Robert Hunter, was intrigued to find a Klingon shuttle with a human being in it.
home.earthlink.net /~rschwarz7/bioDarrenHunter.html   (2029 words)

  
 Constitution class - Memory Alpha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Constitution class design was probably refurbished some time between 2254, when the USS Enterprise had a crew complement of 203, and 2266, when the Enterprise held an increased crew complement of over 400 (TOS: "The Cage" and "Charlie X").
The most famous Constitution class starship was the USS Enterprise, launched under the command of Captain Robert April in 2245.
USS Yorktown: Gene Roddenberry suggested that the USS Enterprise-A was first designated as USS Yorktown, and later recommissioned as USS Enterprise-A, probably because Yorktown was one of the names for the ship being considered when TOS was going into production.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Constitution_class   (5118 words)

  
 USS EAGLE 2 HENRY FORD EAGLE BOAT NAVY PHOTO
An identical sister ship, USS Eagle 56 (PE-56), was lost due to a mysterious explosion April 23, 1945.
Although Eagle 56 survivors stated they had spotted a submarine during the sinking, the official Navy Investigation declared it lost due to a boiler explosion.
The term Eagle Boat came from a 1917 editorial in the Washington Post that called for an eagle to scour the seas and pounce upon and destroy every German submarine.
www.mcmahanphoto.com /ny104.html   (203 words)

  
 USS Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A large bird of prey of the falcon family, noted for its strength, size, grace, keenness of vision, and powers of flight, chosen for the national seal of the United States of America.
Eagle was captured by the enemy 3 June 1813 near Ile aux Noix on the Canadian side of the lake and taken into the Royal Navy as Broke then Finch.
During her services as a British ship she accompanied the expedition which burned the arsenal and storehouses at Plattsburg, N.Y. She was recaptured by the Americans during the great victory of the Battle of Lake Champlain 11 September 1814 and taken back into the U.S. Navy.
members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/eagle_sow.html   (188 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
USS Erie (PG-50) torpedoed by German submarine U-163 off Curacao Island, 12 November 1942, and capsized while under tow off Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, 5 December 1942.
USS St. Augustine (PG-54) sunk after collision with S.S. Camas Meadows off Cape May, New Jersey, 6 January 1944.
USS PGM-27 destroyed by grounding during typhoon at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945.
theusssavage.homestead.com /files/Gunboats_2.txt   (203 words)

  
 Q-ships during World War II
The status of USS Eagle (AM-132) remained unchanged in the department's records, since she had originally been acquired for conversion to AM and had been so designated in the records of the Department.
USS Atik and USS Asterion were to navigate so that one should be approximately 480 miles to the southward of the other after five days at sea.
USS Asterion was subsequently converted for use as a weather-vessel in the North Atlantic.
www.history.navy.mil /docs/wwii/Q-ships.htm   (6602 words)

  
 USS Eagle
The Eagle class is the current production USSF small combatant, designed in 2283 as a possible complement to the Kennedy Missile Carriers, the first of which was being built.
The nameship USS Eagle is named after the first lunar lander, USS Phoenix is named after the first US Starship, while USS Constitution is named after the first USSF warship.
The 8th and 12th Divisions (Eagle and Odyssey, and Endeavour and Atlantis respectively) were at Beowulf, and were involved in the fighting there.
www.geocities.com /Area51/9292/2300/Eagle.htm   (1056 words)

  
 USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The crew of USS Carl Vinson, fresh from a global combat deployment and a change of homeport from Bremerton, Wash. to Norfolk, Va. are now undergoing “SCOOP” in preparation for Carl Vinson’s mid-lifecycle overhaul.
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) held an education fair for its Sailors Wednesday, Sept. 7, allowing crew members to talk to representatives from over 21 colleges in the Hampton Roads area.
USS Carl Vinson does use session cookies, i.e., tokens that remain active only until you close your browser, in order to make the site easier for you to use.
www.cvn70.navy.mil   (771 words)

  
 Ex Astris Scientia - Starfleet Ship Classes A-K
The classification of the USS Centaur is unknown.
Gene Roddenberry proposed that the latter was first designated as USS Yorktown and later recommissioned as Enterprise 1701-A. It is a reasonable assumption that most of the remaining ships were refurbished likewise in the 2270s.
While further ships of this class have been built in the meantime, the USS Defiant probably remained the only one with a Romulan cloaking device and was still in experimental status at the time of its destruction.
www.ex-astris-scientia.org /schematics/starfleet_ships1.htm   (4757 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego Military -- Navy changes historical record, says German sub sank USS Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
WASHINGTON – For more than half a century, the Navy said a boiler was to blame for an explosion that sank the USS Eagle PE-56 within sight of the Maine coast, killing 49 sailors.
But now the Navy is rewriting the Eagle's record to reflect what survivors said all along: A torpedo from a German submarine sank the ship.
Twelve days after the Eagle's sinking, the German sub and its crew of 55 was sunk off the coast of Rhode Island.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20010829-1537-usseaglesink.html   (759 words)

  
 USS Eagle PY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fourth Eagle, a yacht, was built in 1890 as Almy by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Del.; purchased by the Navy 2 April 1898 and renamed Eagle; and commissioned 3 days later, Lieutenant W. Southerland in command.
She was attached to American Patrol Detachment, Atlantic Fleet, and throughout 1911 and 1918 was continually on patrol off Cuba, Santo Domingo, and the southern coast of the United States.
The fifth Eagle (AM-132) was renamed and reclassified Captor (PCY-40) (q.v.) 18 April 1942, shortly after commissioning.
www.navyhistory.com /MISC/Eagle.html   (385 words)

  
 VPNAVY - Aircraft Scouting Force Shipmates Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
In 1926 he took command of the aircraft tender USS Wright with additional duties as Senior Aide on the Staff of Commander Air Squadrons, Atlantic Fleet, In January of 1927, he reported to the NAS Pensacola, Florida for flight training and was designated naval aviator 3368 in May of that year.
When USS S-4 was sunk in December of that year off Provincetown, however, he was again assigned to command of her salvage operations.
Upon completion he returned to his command of the USS Wright, and had a short cruise as Commander Aircraft Squadrons, Scouting Fleet, until 1928, when he went ashore as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
www.vpnavy.com /vpasfk_shipmates.html   (947 words)

  
 Senior Archivist featured in newspaper articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Eagle 56 was lost off the coast of Maine on 23 April 1945.
The USS Eagle was on that list, along with its sinking by the U-853.
And he enclosed a rare recommendation -- that the historical record be changed to state that the USS Eagle was sunk as a result of enemy action.
www.navy.mil /search/print_bbs.asp?bbs_id=503   (1124 words)

  
 USS Hewitt (DD 966)
USS HEWITT was the fourth ship in the SPRUANCE - class and was last homeported in San Diego, Ca.
Admiral Hewitt was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on 11 February 1887 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906.
During the 1920s and 1930s, he was involved in naval gunnery and ordnance as Pacific Fleet Gunnery Officer and Inspector of Ordnance in charge of the Naval Ammunition Depot at Puget Sound, Washington, while sharpening his knowledge of shore bombardment so necessary in his later amphibious assaults.
navysite.de /dd/dd966.htm   (1527 words)

  
 Navy Senior Archivist Helps Solve 57 Year Old “USS Eagle 56” Mystery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Both ships were members of 60 Eagle Boats built by automaker Henry Ford for World War I. None of them were completed in time to see service in that war due to the Armistice, November 11, 1918.
Lawton had originally heard the story of Eagle 56 from two brothers whose father was lost on the ship.
In June 2001, at a special ceremony aboard the museum ship USS Salem (CA 139) in Quincy, Mass., the Navy awarded the Purple Heart to the three survivors and next of kin of those lost.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=6892   (891 words)

  
 Articles - Frank Jack Fletcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For distinguised service as Commanding Officer USS Benham, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling European waters and protecting vitally important convoys, he was awarded the Navy Cross.
He served at the Washington Navy Yards from March 1925 to 1927; became Executive Officer of USS Colorado; and completed the Senior Course at the Naval War College, Newport in June 1930.
USS Fletcher (DD-992) is named in honor of Admiral Fletcher.
www.lastring.com /articles/Frank_Jack_Fletcher?mySession=97c41ac1fd7b46a8b27f3c664cdce373   (947 words)

  
 STARFLEET RECORDS - USS MIRANDA PERSONELL FILES
Served as a cadet onboard the USS Eagle B in engineering.
After serving his cadet cruise aboard the Eagle and the Miranda, Cadet Stipe graduated to the rank of Ensign, and took the posting of an Operations Officer aboard the Miranda.
Ben has a tattoo of the drux'll solar system stretching across his shoulder blades, its in memory of his grandfather who was involved in the Transwarp Incident of 2275.
www.ussmiranda.com /bios/stipe.htm   (157 words)

  
 Fifty Plus Advocate cover story from February 20, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Buried in the military jargon of its deck logs he found references to sonar detections, and to a hunter-killer task force of destroyers and bombers assembled to track down a sub immediately after the sinking.
John Breeze, a former naval engineer and USS Eagle survivor vividly recalled the sinking, the rescue, and the dark silhouette of the submarine.
And he enclosed a rare recommendation — that the historical record be changed to state that the USS Eagle was sunk as a result of enemy action.
www.fiftyplusadvocates.com /covquest.html   (1226 words)

  
 Navy archivist solves 57-year-old mystery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An identical sister ship, USS Eagle 56 (PE-56), was lost due to a mysterious explosion on April 23, 1945 off the coast of Maine.
But despite the fact that several of the survivors claimed to have seen the uppermost portion of a submarine conning tower nearby while the ship was sinking, the Navy ultimately classified the ship's loss as due to a boiler explosion.
The ship was a member of the class of 60 Eagles built by automaker Henry Ford at the end of World War I. None were completed in time to see service in that war due to the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918.
www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/8_17/features/22893-1.html   (870 words)

  
 List of shipwrecks - Simple English Wikipedia
This list of shipwrecks is of those sunken ships whose remains have been located.
USS California (ACR-6) (later San Diego), Long Island
Medusa, French passenger ship of west Africa in 1816.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_shipwrecks   (156 words)

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