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	USS Porpoise (1820) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The first USS Porpoise was a topsail schooner in the United States Navy.
		Porpoise was built in 1820 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
		Porpoise cruised the Mediterranean from 1826 until 1830 under the command of Lts.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Porpoise_(1820) (187 words)

	USS Porpoise III
		The third Porpoise (SS-7) was renamed A-ff (q.v.) 17 November 1911.
		The fifth Porpoise (SS-172) was laid down by the U.S. Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. 27 October 1933, Iaunched 20 June 1935; sponsored by Miss Eva Croft; and commissioned 15 August 1935, Lt. Comdr.
		Due to leaky fuel oil tanks Porpoise departed Pearl Harbor for New London, Conn., where she was to be used as a training sub.
	www.historycentral.com /NAVY/Submarine/porpoiseIII.html (579 words)

	USN Ships--USS Porpoise (SS-172)
		USS Porpoise, first of a class of two 1310-ton submarines built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, was commissioned in August 1935.
		Porpoise's second patrol, in February and March, was conducted in the Netherlands East Indies as the Japanese moved in and conquered that vital source of strategic resources.
		Porpoise decommissioned in November 1945 but in May 1947 was brought back to noncommissioned service as a stationary training submarine for Naval Reservists in the vicinity of Houston, Texas.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/ss172.htm (743 words)

	Charles Wilkes - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 1838, Wilkes was appointed to command an exploring and surveying expedition in the Southern Seas, authorized by Congress in 1836.
		The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the Wilkes Expedition, included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists and a philologist, and was carried by the sloops-of-war Vincennes (780 tons) and Peacock (650 tons), the brig Porpoise (230 tons), the store-ship Relief, and two tenders, Sea Gull (110 tons) and Flying Fish (96 tons).
		USS Vincennes in Disappointment Bay, Antarctica, during the Wilkes expedition.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/h/a/Charles_Wilkes_d4a3.html (607 words)

	USS Porpoise (SS-7) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The third USS Porpoise (SS-7) was an early Plunger-class submarine in the service of the United States Navy, later renamed as A-6.
		She was laid down on 13 December 1900 at Elizabeth, New Jersey by the Crescent Shipyard, launched on 23 September 1901, and commissioned at the Holland yard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September 1903, with Lt.
		Partially disassembled, she was then loaded on the after well deck of the collier USS Caesar for a voyage to the Philippine Islands as deck cargo along with her sister ship USS Shark via the Suez Canal.
	www.music.us /education/U/USS-Porpoise-(SS-7).htm (878 words)

	USN Ships--USS Porpoise (1836-1854)
		USS Porpoise was a 224-ton Dolphin class brigantine (later rerigged as a brig).
		Later in 1848 Porpoise returned to west African waters for a second tour of duty against the slave trade, this one lasting until December 1851.
		It is entitled "The U.S. Brig Porpoise in a Squall".
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/porpois2.htm (687 words)

	USS Porpoise - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The second Porpoise (1836) was a brig lost at sea in 1854.
		The fourth Porpoise (YFB-2047) was originally a passenger ferry converted to Navy service as the USS Moosehead in 1919.
		The fifth Porpoise (SS-172) was the lead boat of her class of submarines, commissioned 1935.
	www.music.us /education/U/USS-Porpoise.htm (326 words)

	Timeline of underwater technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ted Eldred in Australia started designing the first open-circuit single-hose scuba set known: see Porpoise (make of scuba gear).
		1958: USS Nautilus completed the first ever voyage under the polar ice to the North Pole and back.
		USS Triton completed the first ever underwater circumnavigation of the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_underwater_technology (2684 words)

	The Fleet Boats
		Even though a few boats had thier keels laid in 1939 and '40 they were not launched until 1941 so haven't made this list.
		Panoramic photograph of USS Holland AS-3 moored at Bouy 19, San Diego harbor, California, in 1940, with eleven submarines alongside.
		USS Richmond (CL-9), flagship of the Submarine Force, is in the right distance behind the Sargo.
	www.rddesigns.com /subs/fleet.html (145 words)

	USS Goldsborough DDG20 Ray Plumlee Personal Web Site
		In February 1976 I reported to the aboard the USS Goldsborough DDG-20.
		There will be a reunion for the USS Goldsborough DDG-20 from 8 to 13 September 2002, in Virginia Beach, Va. For more information contact: Chuck Artis at: cartis6416@cs.com
		In 1830 he was appointed first officer in charge of the newly created Depot of Charts and Instruments at Washington, the rude beginning of the United States Hydrographic Office.
	rayplumlee.com /ships/goldsboroughDDG20.phtml (1582 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Porpoise of the Porpoise class
		After a refit at Olongapo in the Philippines was completed USS Porpoise (Lt.Cdr.
		Due to the fact that the boat continued to suffer from leaking external oil tanks and the fact that more and more new fleet submarines arrived in the Pacific USS Porpoise was retired to training duties.
		The boat arrived at New London on the U.S. east coast in September 1943.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/2946.html (454 words)

	The Maryland Silver Company, Books, naval history, military history, Ship plans, Ship Model Kits, Ordnance Plans; ...
		--USS Requin class radar picket subs and USS Tunny (SSG-282) Gato class missile sub--
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	www.marylandsilver.com (438 words)

	air flight
		Iran Air Flight 655 "IR655" was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg, which resulted in 290 civilian fatalities from six nations including 66 children.
		Throughout its final flight IR655 was in radio contact with various air traffic control services using standard civil aviation frequencies, and had spoken in english to Bandar Abbas Approach Control seconds before Vincennes launched its missiles.
	www.etc-web.net /travel/flight/air%20flight.html (1272 words)

	Diving is fun!
		Encounters with whales, sharks, and giant squid; dives to the USS Monitor and into sunken mine shafts; and unusual situations of all kinds serve as settings for these entertaining tales, where the unexpected is common.
		Trucs op het rif - Camouflage, misleiding en samenwerking
		Includes tips on how and where to watch whales, dolphins and porpoises, and information on their conservation.
	www.scubawomen.org /Books,EN.htm (2725 words)

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		Credit Brad Keefauver for the additional news that it will be one of the 9-inch deluxe collector series figures (with two outfits) from Playmates (who likely will sell a lot more "Star Trek" action figures than they did "FairyTale: A True Story" figures last year).
		Mar 98 #4 I've been telling people that it has been forty-two years since I was in Japan, and I figured it was time to go back to see if anything had changed, since my visit in 1956 when the USS Mullany operated out of Yokosuka and Sasebo.
		The occasion for my second visit was the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club's special spring convention, in Kamakura and Kawasaki, and both the convention and the sightseeing (afterward, in Kyoto and Nara and Tokyo) were delightful.
	members.cox.net /sherlock1/1998.txt (16980 words)

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