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On 17 July 2006, CNN reported that Gonzalez would be deployed to help in evacuation efforts of American citizens from Lebanon in the midst of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. [5] In May 2022, Gonzalez was homeported out of Naval Station Norfolk and a part of Destroyer Squadron 28, along with Carrier Strike Group 8 led by the USS Harry S ...
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
[5] [6] USS Gonzalez first noticed the common pirate profile of a diesel boat towing smaller skiffs and, with USS Cape St. George closing from 40 miles (64 km) away, trailed the suspects until dawn. [7] Shortly before sunrise, the two American ships each sent a pair of rigid inflatable boats with specially trained boarding teams to investigate. [7]
Ship grounding or ship stranding is the impact of a ship on seabed or waterway side. [1] It may be intentional, as in beaching to land crew or cargo, and careening, for maintenance or repair, or unintentional, as in a marine accident. In accidental cases, it is commonly referred to as "running aground".
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Assigned to Naval Base Point Loma as a component of Submarine Squadron 11. She was part of the squadron as early as 2010. [111] The boat won a Battle "E" award in 2011 and 2014. [112] [113] In 2021 Devil Ray was reassigned from Point Loma to the Chesapeake Bay Detachment of the Naval Research Laboratory. She made the trip from West Coast to ...
INS Visakhapatnam, the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet.