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Stollengrund-class multipurpose boats For German Navy: 14 October United States: Electric Boat: Groton, Connecticut: West Virginia: Ohio-class submarine 27 October United Kingdom: Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore: City of London: Dredger: For United Marine Dredgers Ltd. [5] 31 October United Kingdom: Hall, Russell & Company: Aberdeen: RMS ...
Unknown speed boats Eritrean Liberation Front Eritrean War of Independence: Beginning in late 1988 through 1989, eight speed boats were sunk by Ethiopian Mi-35 attack helicopters. [63] YO-257 United States Navy: The decommissioned yard oiler was sunk 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, to form an artificial reef.
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The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of 6.23 ft (1.90 m), while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of 6.89 ft (2.10 m) with the centerboard extended and 4.08 ft (1.24 m) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of 40 or 50 hp (30 or 37 kW) for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds 39.6 U.S. gallons (150 L; 33.0 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 185 U.S. gallons (700 L; 154 imp gal). [1] [2] [3] [4]
It has a draft of 5.33 ft (1.62 m) with the daggerboard down and 1.25 ft (0.38 m) with the daggerboard up. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 222 with a high of 258 and low of 198. It has a hull speed of 6.5 kn (12.04 km/h). It was replaced in production by the centerboard-equipped MacGregor 26S in 1990.
MV Discovery Sun was the flagship and sole ship of Discovery Cruise Lines, a Miami-based tour operator.She was built at the Orenstein & Koppel shipyard in Lübeck, Germany in 1968 and was renovated in 1995 and then updated in 2000.
Phoenix played a notable role in the response to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. [16] At 5:04 pm on October 17, 1989, a major earthquake rumbled through the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the hardest-hit locations was the Marina District of San Francisco; a densely populated neighborhood built up primarily in the 1920s on rubble, sand and ...