known by its former nickname Herman the German (US Navy designation YD-171), is a large floating crane currently serving in the Panama Canal performing heavy...
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drummer Herman Rarebell Herman the German (crane vessel), a crane vessel seized from Germany by the US after World War II, later used to lift the Spruce...
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Titan (redirect from Titan crane)
Herman the German (crane vessel), former nickname for the floating crane Titan in the Panama Canal Zone Titan (crane), an Australian floating crane Titan...
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two cranes with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes (11,023 short tons; 9,842 long tons) each. For 50 years, the largest such crane was "Herman the German" at...
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Ship (redirect from Ship or vessel)
A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions...
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Freinsheim’s crane with adjustments in the lengths of the sections of the bridge. His design placed the corvus twelve feet above the deck and had the corvus...
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Hercules remained in use at the Panama Canal until a new floating crane was purchased. Dubbed Herman the German, the 350-ton crane, also known as Titan, replaced...
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RMS Lusitania (redirect from Lusitania (vessel))
The sinking shifted public and leadership opinion in the United States against Germany. US and internal German pressure led to a suspension of German...
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drawing shows the three gun positions and a stern crane for the minesweeping gear in Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, (1951), Republished 1979, Back Bay...
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Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the Seaview's captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson...
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Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (redirect from Way (vessel))
To station the crew of a naval vessel along the rails and superstructure of the vessel as a method of saluting or rendering honors. man the yards To have...
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raising the leeboard, with a barrel for pulling in the staysail sheets. crabber A fishing vessel rigged for crab fishing. crane ship crane vessel A ship...
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Strategic bombing during World War II (redirect from The Bombing of Germany)
flying over the city, on a mission to attack the German Schleswig-Holstein battleship. However, the vessel had already left the city, so the seaplane flew...
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formed in 2002 for the purpose of locating, preserving, and returning WWII artifacts to the United States. Overlord purchased the vessel from its French...
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E-boat (redirect from German E Boat)
navy vessels from interfering with German fishing boats and for destroying stray mines. The home port of the boats was Kiel, and operated under the supervision...
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Charles Laughton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Martial, adapted from the novel by Herman Wouk drama, with Henry Fonda, adapted as The Caine Mutiny by Edward Dmytryk 1955: The Night of the Hunter, a film adapted...
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Liberty ship (redirect from Problems of the Liberty ship)
commercial merchant vessels which could be used in wartime by the United States Navy as naval auxiliaries, crewed by U.S. Merchant Mariners. The number was doubled...
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List of suicides (redirect from List of suicides before the 21st century)
author, novelist known for the antitotalitarian novel Darkness At Noon, barbiturates Hannelore Kohl (2001), German wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl,...
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films released in the 1930s. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Elephant Boy". AllMovie. Retrieved November 9, 2017. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Drum". AllMovie...
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Urich). Lord Jim is referenced in the final section of Herman Wouk's 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny as the captain of the Caine struggles to come to terms...
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scale, the cone scale base is broad, concealing the seeds fully from abaxial (below the phloem vessels) view, the seed is without resin vesicles, the seed...
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room or explored the ship. Nine-year-old Frank Goldsmith recalled peering into the engine room and climbing up the baggage cranes on the poop deck. Ship's...
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support vessel LT – Tug, large, seagoing MWT – Modular Warping, Tug ST – Tug, small, harbor T – Boat, passenger and cargo TCDF – Temporary crane discharge...
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American Civil War (redirect from The War of the Rebellion)
by Ambrose Bierce The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane The Challenge to Sirius (1917) by Sheila Kaye-Smith Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret...
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List of 2010s films based on actual events (redirect from List of films based on actual events in the 2010s)
Sawchuk The Golden Glove (German: Der Goldene Handschuh) (2019) – German-French horror drama film depicting the story of German serial killer Fritz Honka...
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List of stage names (section The)
This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname followed by their birth...
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category...
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List of last words (19th century) (category Articles containing German-language text)
world you're really in, that's all.": 22 — Stephen Crane, American author (5 June 1900) "Keep up the fire, men." — Emerson H. Liscum, United States Army...
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Ming dynasty (redirect from Empire of the Great Ming)
the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806185026. Swope (2011), p. 122–125. Xie (2013), p. 118–120. Herman...
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1891 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
French artist (b. 1837) December 7 – Mary Crane, American activist; mother of the writer, Stephen Crane (b. 1827) December 12 – Julia A. Ames, American...
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