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At around 01:05 local time, Naiguatá approached RCGS Resolute from the starboard quarter and, after suddenly changing course to port, collided with the bow of the cruise ship. A few minutes later, RCGS Resolute ' s master ordered the port side controllable pitch propeller first to zero pitch and then to astern thrust in order to separate the ...
The Guaicamacuto-class patrol boats (Avante 1400) is a class of offshore patrol vessels or BVL (Spanish: Buque de Vigilancia de Litoral) in Venezuelan Navy service for patrol duty in economic exclusive zone.
Heritage Adventurer is an ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship built in 1991 by Rauma shipyard in Finland. She was originally named Society Adventurer, but after Discoverer Reederei was unable to take delivery of the vessel due to financial troubles, the completed ship was laid up at the shipyard for almost two years.
Resolute appears in the second chapter of the Dale Brown novel Hammerheads where, fictitiously up-armed with (1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun, as well as her normal complement of 6 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns), [3] the ship becomes involved in a gun-battle with a heavily armed freighter used by a Colombian cartel to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
The Venezuelan Navy was born as a coastal defense force during the beginning of the Venezuelan War of Independence.In May 1810, Commander Lino de Clemente, a veteran officer of the Spanish Navy who joined the April 1810 coup against the colonial government, was appointed the first Minister of Defense of the republic and began the long building of the armed forces including the formation of the ...
1808, May 11 and 12 – HMS Wizard vs French 16-gun brig of war Requin, later captured by HMS Volage; 1808, June 24 – HMS Salsette captures the Russian cutter Opyt; 1808, July 5 and 6 – HMS Seahorse captures Turkish frigate Badere Zaffer [2] 1808, July 16&17 – Active repelled a Spanish and a French privateer in two separate single-ship ...
USS Resolute, various US Navy ships, other vessels and a floating drydock; USCGC Resolute, a United States Coast Guard cutter; USRC Resolute, a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1872; CSS Resolute, a Confederate States Navy tugboat during the American Civil War
El Ávila is known as "el pulmón de la ciudad", the lungs of the city, since it serves many different functions for residents of Caracas, the most basic of these being navigation: the peak of El Ávila marks the north of the city.