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USS Roanoke (CL-145) was the second ship of the Worcester-class light cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy shortly after the end of World War II. Commissioned in 1949, she served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific before being decommissioned in 1958. She was sold for scrap in 1972.
English: The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Roanoke (CL-145) underway at slow speed, circa the early 1950s. Note the ship's crew at quarters, her call sign "NIQE" flying at the port yardarm, a motor whaleboat off her port side amidships and the lighthouse on the tip of the jetty in the background.
USS Roanoke (ID-1695) was the civilian vessel El Dia converted to a minelayer in 1917 and returned in 1919; USS Roanoke (PF-93) was a Tacoma-class patrol gunboat, reclassified as a patrol frigate, then renamed Lorain in 1944 while under construction; USS Roanoke (CL-114), a Fargo-class light cruiser, was canceled on 5 October 1944, prior to the ...
USS Roanoke (AOR-7) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. She was named after the city of Roanoke, Virginia and the Roanoke River , in keeping with the naming convention of her class.
Nicknamed "Zippo" after the popular cigarette lighter, these Monitors mounted two M10-8 flamethrowers, each with an effective range of 200–300 yards (180–270 m). With 1,350 US gallons (5,100 L; 1,120 imp gal) of napalm fuel, the M10-8 could lay down a sheet of flame for 225 seconds. Sailors would make napalm by mixing a powder consisting of ...
On March 3, 1936, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent for the Zippo lighter. [9] Zippo lighters became popular in the United States military, especially during World War II—when, as the company's web site says, Zippo "ceased production of lighters for consumer markets and dedicated all manufacturing to the US military". [10]