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The Explorer-class ocean surveillance ship is a planned class of United States Navy special mission-support ship. Also known as the T-AGOS 25 program, the ships are planned to replace five other ocean surveillance ships and is speculated to be in response to modernized submarines from Russia and China. [ 2 ]
MS Zuiderdam / ˈ z aɪ d ər d æ m / [8] is a Vista-class cruise ship owned and operated by Holland America Line (HAL). It is the lead ship of the Vista-class vessels, so named for the extensive use of glass in their superstructure, and is sister to three other HAL ships, Oosterdam, Westerdam, and Noordam.
For many years the only memorial to the seamen lost in the three ships was a stained-glass window in the church of St Peter Martindale in Cumbria, on the east side of Ullswater. A new memorial plaque dedicated to HMS Glorious and her escort destroyers Ardent and Acasta , was unveiled in St. Nicholas's Church, in HMS Drake , Devonport in 2002.
Shortly afterwards the government decided to discontinue this class of ships, but Impeccable was to be completed as the sole ship in her class. The hull was towed to Gulfport, Mississippi , in 1995 where she was finished by Halter Marine Inc. [ 3 ] She was launched on 28 August 1998 and was delivered to the Navy on 22 March 2001 which assigned ...
USS Haleakala (AE-25) was a Nitro-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy in service from 1959 to 1993.. The USS Haleakala (AE-25) was launched on 17 February 1959 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland and was sponsored by Mrs. Maurice E. Curts, wife of Vice Admiral Maurice Curts.
These large weapons will be deployed in the vertical launch cells of U.S. Virginia-class submarines and Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers. However, HALO’s approach is for a lower-flying ...
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
Pfc William A. Soderman receives the MOH on the White House lawn, 12 October 1945. The USNS Soderman (T-AKR-317) is the second ship to be named after the Medal of Honor recipient William A. Soderman. The first ship has been renamed USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham which is a Shughart-class container & roll-on roll-off. William A. Soderman was ...