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SS Flying Eagle may refer to the following ships: . SS Flying Eagle (1944), a Type C2-S-AJ1 ship; renamed Del Alba in 1946; broken up in 1970 SS Flying Eagle (1945), a Type C2-S-AJ3 ship; the former Tolland-class attack cargo ship USS Venango (AKA-82); named Flying Eagle from 1952 to 1968; broken up in 1971 in Spain
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to bear that name, but the fourth to serve under it, as the third was renamed Hornet (CV-12) before launching (after the prior Hornet was sunk).
Of 112 Eagle-class patrol craft planned 60 of these World War I era ships were completed, being given numbers from 1 to 60. ... USS SC-1035, later PGM-3; USS ...
In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitters fired upon two U.S. F-14 Tomcats and were subsequently shot down off the Libyan coast. Libya had claimed that the entire Gulf was their territory, at 32° 30′ N, with an exclusive 62-nautical-mile (115 km; 71 mi) fishing zone, which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi asserted as "The Line of Death" in 1973. [1]
After liberty stops in, Korea, Thailand, and Singapore, Coral Sea arrived in the Arabian Sea in January 1980 flying protection caps for Coral Sea and USS Nimitz. On 24 April 1980, VMFA-323 was prepared to fly combat missions into southern Iran in support of US hostages rescue attempt Operation Eagle Claw with the mission to shoot down any ...
Flying Cloud [8] [self-published source] 1851 United States (Boston, MA) Burned in 1875 225 ft (69 m) The Flying Cloud was built by Donald McKay, and owned by Grinnell, Minturn & Co which was based out of Boston. In 1854, she set a record of 89 days 8 hours for her trip from New York to San Francisco under Captain J. P. Creasy.
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USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ported in Boston Harbor.