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    USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1) was a one-of-a-kind "Cargo Ship Dock." She was the lone ship in her class, named for Point Barrow (the northernmost point...
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  • USNS Point Loma may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Point Loma (AGDS-2) (formerly USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1)), a decommissioned...
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    amphibious warfare ships § Landing Ship Dock (LSD) Roll-on/roll-off USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1), a cargo ship of similar design "Mother of Minesweepers"...
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    Ship (USNS). In rare instances, ships were transferred from MSC to the U.S. Navy, being commissioned and receiving the USS-prefix. USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1)...
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    forces in the Vietnam War. She also was used by NASA, along with USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1), to carry S-IVB and S-II stages of the Saturn V Moon rocket...
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    Strait (T-AK-W9519) USNS American Kestrel (T-AK-9651) USNS Noble Star (T-AK-9653) USNS Green Ridge (T-AK-9655) USNS Advantage (T-AK-9682) The Point Barrow was similar...
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    AK-205) USNS Point Barrow (T-AKD-1) USS Point Bonita (ID-3496) USS Point Cruz (CVE-119/AKV-19/T-AKV-19) USS Point Defiance (LSD-24, LSD-31) USS Point Lobos...
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    [A] USNS Puerto Rico (T-EPF-11) [A] USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) [A] USNS Apalachicola (T-EPF-13) [A] USNS Cody (T-EPF-14) [A] USNS Point Loma (T-EPF-15)...
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    AFDL-7) USS Abinago (YTB-493/YTM-493) USS Abingdon (PC-1237) USNS Abiqua (T-AO-158) USNS Able (T-AGOS-20) USS Abnaki (AT-96/ATF-96) USS Abner Read (DD-526...
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    & Kaufman 2013, p. 62. Wertheimer 2004, p. 343. Bourne 1997, pp. 44–55. Barrow & Warren 2023. Hingston 2016. Argetsinger 1996. Alter 2020, p. 59. Zelizer...
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    at Point Barrow Build field camp runways at Umiat and Bettles On July 19 the USS Spica headed north with the SS Jonathan Harrington for Point Barrow and...
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    his walk in the cold blow at −83 °F (−64 °C) wind chill from Barrow village to Point Barrow set his 8th Guinness record for the first crossing of the Americas...
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    to Wainwright on 31 July, Estes pressed on to Point Barrow the following day. At anchor off Point Barrow, Estes fell temporary victim to a shift in the...
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    October–November 1967 450 nautical miles (830 km) north-northwest of Point Barrow, Alaska. During July and August 1968 Staten Island was assigned to conduct...
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    her wait was over, and she set a course northward. She submerged in the Barrow Sea Valley on 1 August and on 3 August, at 2315 hrs. EDT she became the...
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    bombings. In 2009 the US Navy converted the main deck aboard the supply ship USNS Lewis and Clark into a brig to hold pirates captured off the coast of Somalia...
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    (1975–1976) Major General Harrison Lobdell Jr. (1976–1978) Rear Admiral John C. Barrow (1978–1980) Major General Lee E. Surut (1980–1983) Major General Perry M...
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    States Strategic Bombing Survey 1946, p. 19 Zimm 2011, pp. 330–341 Owen, RAdm USN, Thomas B. (1989). Memories of the War Years. Vol. I. Washington: Unpublished...
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  • 1947. To Military Sea Transportation Service in 1949 as USNS Cowanesque (T-AO-79), later USNS Cowanesque (T-AOT-79). Sunk off Okinawa, Japan on 23 April...
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  • USS Glover (AGDE-1) See USS Plainview (AGEH-1) See USS Glover (AGFF-1) See USS Point Barrow (AKD-1) See USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) See Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1...
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    HMS M2 (1918) (category Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness)
    that only three were completed. M2 was laid down at Vickers shipyard at Barrow in Furness in 1916, and launched in 1918. Like the other members of her...
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    HMS A1 (category Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness)
    several respects. Like all members of her class, she was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 19 February 1902 and launched on 9 July...
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    served in several senior positions in the U.S. Department of Defense. A West Point graduate (Class of 1971, Distinguished Graduate), he retired as a lieutenant...
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  • president of Hampden-Sydney College - Princeton University 1824 David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr. - chancellor of the University of Georgia 1906 to 1925 - University...
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    HMS A3 (category Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness)
    weight of fuel. A3 was laid down by Vickers, Sons & Maxim as Yard No.295 at Barrow-in-Furness on 6 November 1902 and was launched on 9 May 1903. She was commissioned...
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  • Barnes (WPB-82371) USCGC Point Barrow (WPB-82348) USCGC Point Batan (WPB-82340) USCGC Point Bennett (WPB-82351) USCGC Point Bonita (WPB-82347) USCGC Point Bridge (WPB-82338)...
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    returning from Antarctica, Burton Island departed 25 July 1947 for the Point Barrow expedition to Alaska. From April 1948 to December 1956, Burton Island...
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    USNS Harris County (T-LST-822) was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for counties in Georgia...
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    At this time point, Valiant was under construction, but the second boat of the class, HMS Warspite, was yet to be laid down at Barrow. The possibility...
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    be taken.": 41  On 21 February, Winecoff received a message from Colonel Barrow, 9th Marines Commanding Officer, to set up an ambush along Route 922. The...
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