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A Wickes-class destroyer that was bombed as a target off San Diego. USS Knight United States Navy: 27 October 1967 A Gleaves-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Diego. USS Marcus United States Navy: 25 June 1935 A Clemson-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Diego. Monte Carlo United States: 1 January 1937
California (1907–1914) San Diego (1914–1918) Namesake: State of California; City of San Diego, California; Ordered: 3 March 1899: Awarded: 10 January 1901: Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California: Cost: $3,800,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) Laid down: 7 May 1902: Launched: 28 April 1904: Sponsored by: Miss F. Pardee ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
The iron version of the Scythian/Persian Acinaces appears from ca. the 6th century BC. In Classical Antiquity and the Parthian and Sassanid Empires in Iran, iron swords were common. The Greek xiphos and the Roman gladius are typical examples of the type, measuring some 60 to 70 cm (24 to 28 in).
Established in the early 1900s by United Engineering Works, the yard was purchased by Union Iron Works (Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation) in 1916 and came to be known as the Alameda Works. During the World War I period the yard built cargo ships, tankers and 2 small tugboats. For the UK Admiralty. War Knight, War Monarch, War Sword (1917, 7 ...
sword steel, steel suitable for sword making; Tekkan (also called tetsu-ken (鉄刀, steel sword); "鉄" being Japanese for steel and iron), an Edo-period blunt Japanese sword; Iron Age sword; Iron sword (disambiguation) Sword (disambiguation) Steel (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing swords of steel
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, BuNo 66237, c/n A-1257, 'Z 11', suffers engine failure on functional check flight out of Naval Air Station San Diego, North Island, California, pilot Ens. Robert F. Thomas ditches in the Pacific Ocean ~12 miles (19 km) from the base, gets clear of sinking airframe and survives to become an ace in the Pacific ...
The Iron Sword (book), a 2022 novel by Julie Kagawa, in The Iron Fey Series; Swords of Iron (book), a 1956 novel by Joyce Reason; Iron Sword Sect, a fictional martial arts organization in wuxia fiction "Iron Sword" Tian Qi, a fictional character from the 1977 film The Sentimental Swordsman