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	Encyclopedia: USS Stark (FFG-31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stark was deployed to the Middle East Force in 1984 and 1987.
		USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy, but second to be commissioned, to be named in honor of the 29th state.
		USS Gary (FFG-51), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy, named for Commander Donald A. Gary (1903–1977), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the fires on USS Franklin (CV-13) on 19 March 1945.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-Stark-(FFG_31) (3016 words)

	Stark Investments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stark is the name of one of the twin worlds in the best-selling PC-game The Longest Journey.
		Stark spectroscopy or electroabsorption spectroscopy is a form of UV/Vis spectroscopy, where the sample is exposed to a strong electrical field.
		John Stark was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1728.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/170/stark-investments.html (1920 words)

	United States Navy - Wikipedia
		USS Thresher - sunk in an accident in 1963
		USS Merrimac - a wooden warship rebuilt by the Confederates as the ironclad CSS Virginia
		Sank the USS Husitania with its spar-mounted torpedo, but was sunk during or soon after the same battle, with all hands on board.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /us/USN.html (718 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Stark (FFG-31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USS Stark was named for Admiral Harold Stark, chief of naval operations, 1939-42.
		The Iraqi pilot claimed that he had fired at Stark because he believed her to be an Iranian vessel 20 to 25 miles inside the Iranian exclusion zone.
		Stark's Captain Glenn Brindel was later relieved of command and his recent promotion to captain was never confirmed; he retired with the rank of commander.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_086800_ussstarkffg3.htm (264 words)

	USS Stark (FFG 31)
		USS STARK was homeported in Mayport, Florida, and is scheduled to be scrapped.
		USS STARK is named for Admiral Harold R. Stark, who served his country with distinction for four decades.
		Stark attained the rank of Rear Admiral on 2 November 1934, and was promoted to Admiral on 1 August 1939 following his appointment as Chief of Naval Operations on 1 April 1939.
	united-states-navy.com /ffg/FFG31.HTM (989 words)

	MayportMirror.com: Shipmates Not Forgotten 05/23/02
		The bell used during this year's ceremony was hanging in the Wardroom aboard USS Stark when the missile struck.
		Wynkoop is a former commanding officer of USS Stark from 1992-94.
		Stark was decommissioned in 1999, leaving no active crew to sustain the memorial.
	www.mayportmirror.com /stories/052302/may_forgotten.shtml (579 words)

	Remember > History Of Sacrifice > USS Stark Incident
		We remember the 37 American Navy crewmen who were killed fourteen years ago in the Persian Gulf when their frigate, the USS Stark, was hit by Iraqi missiles on May 17, 1987.
		The mission of the USS Stark was to maintain peace in the hostile environment of the gulf: to help keep essential sea lanes open, to show the American flag in an area of vital interest, and to provide U.S. Navy protection to those entitled to it.
		USS Stark Victims Arrive in U.S. Their journey began in towns such as New Bethlehem and Charleston and Choctaw and took them from a home port in Florida to the Persian Gulf on May 17, 1987; it neared an end in a bare metal and concrete hangar in Delaware.
	www.remember.gov /HistoryOfSacrifice/USSStarkIncident/tabid/88/Default.aspx (362 words)

	USS Stark
		Aboard the USS Stark, a Perry-class frigate on duty in the gulf, radar operators picked up the Mirage when it was some 200 miles away; it was flying at 5,000 feet and traveling at 550 mph.
		Captain Glenn Brindel, 43, commander of the Stark, was not particularly alarmed.
		In the aftermath of the Stark incident, the rhetoric coming out of Washington was of a forgiving nature where Iraq was concerned, while growing increasingly hostile in reference to Iran.
	www.usswaddell.com /History/stark/uss_stark.htm (1117 words)

	FFG 31 Stark
		Stark was launched on 30 May 1982 and commissioned 23 October 1982 in Seattle, Washington.
		Stark was named for the former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark.
		USS Stark (FFG 31) is named for Admiral Harold R. Stark, who served his country with distinction for four decades.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ffg-31.htm (946 words)

	USS STARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USS STARK (FFG 31) is one of the Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG 7) class of ASW frigates serving the US Navy.
		STARK was at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, NS, on May 29, 1997.
		STARK is a short-hull Perry frigate, which means that she lacks the RAST apparatus for aiding helicopter landings.
	www.hazegray.org /features/nato/us/stark (270 words)

	Warships - WWW.TheDeckPlate.Com
		USS Turner Joy, a Forrest Sherman class destroyer, is on display at the Bremerton boardwalk, in Bremerton, Washington.
		From Saipan, to Okinawa, to Kwajalein, to Tokyo Bay, USS Idaho was a force to be reckoned with in the Pacific.
		USS Des Moines (CA-134), the last of the Navy's World War II era heavy gun cruisers, is currently in mothballs at Philadelphia.
	www.thedeckplate.com /warships.htm (979 words)

	Stark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stark (The Longest Journey), one of the twin worlds in the computer game The Longest Journey
		Stark Hyperspace War, fictional conflict described in the Star Wars universe
		Harold Rainsford Stark (1880–1972), American admiral of the U.S. Navy during WWII
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stark (344 words)

	US People--Stark, Harold R., Admiral, USN.
		Harold Rainsford Stark was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on 12 November 1880.
		From 1934 to 1937, Rear Admiral Stark was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.
		In March 1942, Stark was relieved as CNO by Admiral Ernest J.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-s/h-stark.htm (917 words)

	CNN.com - USS Cole follows path of another stricken warship - October 30, 2000
		The technique was previously used in 1988 to transport the missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts after it was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf.
		In saving their wounded ship, the Cole's crew evoked memories of the Roberts and a sister ship, USS Stark, both victims of hostile action during the Iraq-Iran "tanker war" in the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s.
		The Stark was patrolling Gulf waters the night of May 17, 1987, when hit by two French-made Exocet anti-ship missiles fired by an Iraqi warplane hunting Iranian tankers.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/10/30/uss.cole.piggyback.ap (764 words)

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		USS Augusta (CA-31) List of cruisers of the United States Navy...
		USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy...
		USS Prince William (CVE-31) List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/31.html (557 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The USS Stark Incident (3/17/1987) - Nov. 24th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USS STARK (FFG-31) was launched on May 30, 1982 and commissioned October 23, 1982 in Seattle, Washington.
		The USS STARK (FFG-31) was decommisioned in May 1999 and is currently at Inactive Ships Maintenance Office in Philadelphia, PA. While numerous Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates were decommissioned in 1999 or 2000, some Guided Missile Frigates still serve in the U.S. Navy.
		STARK was struck by two missiles fired by Iraqi aircraft.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1287318/posts (7139 words)

	USS-Stark
		The 1987 attack on the USS Stark was deliberate - not that anyone believes otherwise.
		That year The Wednesday Report launched a lengthy investigation into developments in the Persian Gulf, in particular, the effectiveness of weapons involved in the USS Stark incident, weapons, in fact, similar to those being fitted to Canada's Tribal-class destroyers under the TRUMP programme.
		From Baghdad came an official apology and declaration that the offending pilot had mistaken the USS Stark for an Iranian oil tanker.
	www.thewednesdayreport.com /twr/gulfwar/uss-stark.htm (545 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger described the attack on the USS Stark as a horrible error.
		Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was quick to apologize for the "unintentional incident." Evidently, the Mirage pilot had mistaken the Stark for an Iranian tanker(Eventhough the USS Stark had radioed the Iraq Mirage twice Identifying itself as a US Naval Vessel).
		In the aftermath of the Stark incident, the rhetoric coming out of Washington was of a forgiving nature where Iraq was concerned, while growing increasingly hostile in reference to Iran.
	www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=3401&commentID=23386 (803 words)

	58. The USS Stark Incident
		The USS La Salle, flagship of Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the U.S. Navy Middle East Force, moved to intercept the gunboats, which turned back after being buzzed by Saudi warplanes.
		In the Combat Information Center of the USS Vincennes -- a $1.2 billion Aegis cruiser, the most sophisticated warship in the world -- Captain Will Rogers III had just seven minutes to decide whether or not to fire at the Iranian aircraft coming straight for him.
		The USS Vincennes shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988 which resulted in the deaths of over 290 innocent passengers, and the U.S. Navy's attempted cover-up.
	eightiesclub.tripod.com /id344.htm (2284 words)

	Saving the Samuel B. Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On April 14, 1988, almost a year after the Stark incident, in which 37 sailors died, USS Samuel B. Roberts met another threat.
		Their ship's realistic training, created from the USS Stark lessons learned, had prepared them for the worst.
		Cambria also was a member of the NAVSEA damage-assessment team for the USS Stark.
	www.dcfp.navy.mil /mc/museum/ROBERTS/Roberts6.htm (467 words)

	Appendix (USS Explorer II Technical Manual) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The USS Stark (FFG 31), an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, achieved notoriety after being struck by an anti-ship missile in 1987.
		The Stark survived, not because of its rugged design, but because the missile's small warhead was incapable of sinking even such non-combatant ships as supertankers.
		As American destroyers begin to take on more capabilities of cruisers, the only real distinction between destroyers and cruisers is that destroyers are often commanded by someone holding the rank of commander, while cruisers are commanded by those holding the rank of captain.
	home.earthlink.net /~bldunlap2/explorer2/tech_manual/A._Appendix.html (3412 words)

	World Affairs Board - Battle Damage!
		USS Stark (FFG-31) was hit by 2 Exocet antiship missiles on May 17, 1987, fired by an Iraqi Mirage F-1.
		USS Samuel B Roberts being sealifted home on the Dutch Mighty Servant 2 after being mined in the Persian Gulf on April 14 1988.
		USS Guam (LPH-9) being sunk as a target by the USS John F Kennedy battle group on October 16, 2001.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=1696 (634 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was found that the drains were in manual, causing the 4th and 5th stage failure.
		Additionally, during our investigation we found that the rudder position indicators were slightly out of adjustment and provided guidance to reposition the angle indicators to match rudder travel.
		Ship's drawings call for a different configuration than that which is currently installed, however our investigation revealed that the installed configuration is correct and that the drawing was in error.
	www.spear.navy.mil /FTSC/970901.txt (1350 words)

	USS Stark
		I left the USS Stark in Nov of 1986, and went to the Naval Recruiting Command in Minneapolis, MN.
		I joined the Stark pre-commissioning crew in Norfolk, VA sometime in the spring of 1982, after completing Electronic Warfare A school in Pensacola, FL.
		Surprisingly, I miss many aspects of life on USS Stark- but I wouldn't go back if they begged me. I can't believe that was more than four years ago.
	groups.msn.com /ussstark/biographies.msnw (2408 words)

	Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Persian Gulf was a dangerous place to be during the Iran-Iraq War, and on 17 May 1987, USS Stark (FFG-31) was attacked, apparently accidentally, by an Iraqi warplane.
		Less than a year later, on 14 April 1988, the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine.
		USS Clark (FFG-11) (transferred to Poland as ORP Gen.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-class-frigate.htm (834 words)

	FFG-7 OLIVER HAZARD PERRY-class
		This "toughness" was aptly demonstrated when USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and USS Stark was hit by two Exocet cruise missiles.
		On 17 May 1987, two Iraqi fired Exocet SSMs hit the U.S.S. Stark (FFG-31), one of which detonated near berthing spaces resulting in heavy loss of life.
		The Stark returned to the United States on her own power and underwent repairs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/ffg-7.htm (621 words)

	Locutus
		After compleating his training at Spacfleet training, he was asigned to the USS Stark, as an Ensign.
		Spacefleet approved his transfer, and he was transfered to the USS Firefly.
		Locutus was on the USS Firefly for 5 years.
	members.aol.com /captainhuff/hood/locutus.html (578 words)

	MayportMirror.com: Stark memorial on tap for Friday 05/16/02
		Stark was hit by two Iraqi missiles on May 17, 1987.
		The following Sailors of USS Stark understood their obligations.
		So to, I believe, these same men gave up their lives so the terrible moments of the past would not be repeated.
	www.mayportmirror.com /stories/051602/may_memorial001.shtml (227 words)

	FIREFIGHTING 1
		When the USS Stark (FFG-31) took a hit from a pair of Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf in 1987, its port side fire mains ruptured and its precious supply of A-FFF Foam, which quickly extinguishes Class B oil fires, became unavailable.
		The Stark incident killed 37 sailors, injured 21 others and caused $142 million in damage to the ship.
		The terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2002 caused similar damage to the port side fire mains.
	www.marinelog.com /DOCS/PRINTMMIII/MMIIIDecIRA1.html (537 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		People will gather today to remember 37 sailors who died on the USS Stark.
		The sailors were on patrol in the Persian Gulf in 1987, when two Iraqi missiles hit the ship.
		As for the USS Stark, it was decommissioned in 1999.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=18744 (67 words)

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