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HNoMS King Haakon VII was a Royal Norwegian Navy escort ship during World War II, named after King Haakon VII of Norway.She was given to the RNoN by the United States on 16 September 1942, [1] in the presence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha.
SS President: 1840 Vanished and presumed lost March 1841 The S.S. President: SS President Coolidge: 1931 Struck two mines and sank on October 26, 1942 S.S. President Coolidge at sea, 1930s: USS President Lincoln: 1907 Torpedoed and sunk by U-90 on May 31, 1918 S.S. President Lincoln sometime before World War One: SS Pretoria: 1897 Scrapped in 1921
John Adams has had two ships named after him in 1799 before his death on 4 July 1826, as well as a submarine in the 20th century: USS Adams was a 28-gun frigate built in New York, and launched 8 June 1799; USS John Adams was a 24-gun frigate built in Charleston, South Carolina launched 1 October 1799.
It was named after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who was President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937, while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey , at the end of the first North American ...
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Sirius (2010–), was firstly used by the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev [4] Graceful (2018–), the most recent presidential yacht; The Russian government also employing the special vessel named Rossiya which was built during the Soviet Union, and used in the internal waters. In 2003 ship named Burevestnik was commissioned to serve the ...
The ship was known by the Admiralty as HMS Tuberose [31] until the end of the war, [29] [dubious – discuss] but the vessel's name was never changed by Cunard. Starting in March 1918, Mauretania received two forms of dazzle camouflage , a type of abstract colour scheme designed by Norman Wilkinson in 1917 in an effort to confuse enemy ships.
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.