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    A picket boat is a type of small naval craft. These are used for harbor patrol and other close inshore work, and have often been carried by larger warships...
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  • converted to the picket boat HSwMS Viken (V04) T42, converted to the picket boat HSwMS Skanör (V01) T43, converted to the picket boat HSwMS Smyge (V02)...
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    The picket boat of the Royal Navy, (also sometimes called a P1000) was a twin screw boat in use at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth primarily...
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  • ahead of the main formation Radar picket, a radar equipped vehicle on picket duty Picket boat, a small military boat Picket (Polish: pikieta), a slang term...
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    in the decades around 1900 were habitually called "steam picket boats" - so one type of boat had two names. In modern times, some of the older nomenclature...
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    The No.1-class patrol boat (第一号型哨戒特務艇,, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Shōkai-Tokumutei) was a class of auxiliary patrol boat (picket boat) of the Imperial Japanese...
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    A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...
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    various support, survey and training roles, replacing previous P1000 Class Picket Boat vessels. This class of vessel also incorporates an autonomous minehunting...
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    clippers post war. Picket boats were used as harbor patrol boats. Picket boats were usually small boats between 30 and 55 feet. Picket boats also did other...
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    The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 36-foot picket boats were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers ("rum runners"). After...
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    States Picket boat, a naval launch A double-banked boat has two oarsmen seated on each thwart, each operating their own oar on their side of the boat. This...
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    ships of 50–100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats. At first, the threat of a torpedo-boat attack to a battle fleet was considered to exist...
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    sighted by the Japanese picket boat No. 23 Nittō Maru, a 70-ton patrol craft, which radioed an attack warning to Japan. The boat was sunk by gunfire from...
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    The Coast Guard developed the 75-foot patrol boat to serve the offshore role and the 36-foot picket boat to serve the inshore role. A basic design for...
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  • V 1302 John Mahn was a fishing trawler requisitioned during World War II by the Kriegsmarine for use as a Vorpostenboot. It was launched in 1927 in Hamburg...
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    be fitted with spar torpedoes. Cushing discovered two 30-foot (9.1 m) picket boats under construction in New York and acquired them for his mission. On...
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    were allocated to and in addition to other duties were armed to act as picket boats. The Royal Navy pinnace Steam Pinnace 199 is preserved at Portsmouth...
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  • Two private fishing boats, Betty Ann and Bingo II, were the first to respond and rescue passengers. The U.S. Coast Guard picket boat that responded approximately...
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    longer range than planned when the task force encountered a Japanese picket boat, all of the attacking aircraft either crashed or ditched short of the...
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    also failed. Finally, on the night of 18 April, two 17-metre (56 ft) picket boats, one from Triumph, the other from Majestic, both armed with two 14-inch...
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    Royal Navy. Archer-class patrol vessel P1000-class picket boat Patrol Craft Fast - the "Swift Boats" Cutlass-class patrol vessel "Royal Navy autonomous...
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    target. The task force, its presence known to the enemy after a Japanese picket boat radioed a warning, reversed course and returned to Pearl Harbor on 25...
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    powered ship's boats saw a slow introduction to the Royal Navy from 1864. By 1877, three types were in use: steam launches, picket boats and steam cutters...
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    Harley was born in 1842, in Kings County, New York. While aboard the U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, on October 27, 1864, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his...
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  • Boat Market Is Primarily Driven By High Adoption Of Various Types Of Patrol Boats". AP NEWS. 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2021-09-03. "Definition of PICKET SHIP"...
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    U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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    picket boat which destroyed the Rebel ram Albemarle. The inscription on the medal reads: "Personal valor - Richard Hamilton, Coal Heaver, Picket Boat...
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    USS Chicopee; volunteered from the Chicopee as one of the crew of U.S. Picket Boat No. 1 with Lieutenant William B. Cushing in the destruction of Rebel...
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    submarine training. The guided missile and radar picket boats were never exported. By 1982, only 60 boats remained in the Soviet Navy (45 active, 15 in operational...
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    debris from a magazine that exploded prematurely and a lighter and a picket boat were lost. Shortly after dawn, the Ottomans retook Helles. In the final...
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