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    USS Rockaway (AVP-29), later AG-123, was a United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946. She served in both the Atlantic...
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  • Rockaway Creek (California) USS Rockaway (AVP-29), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946 USCGC Rockaway (WAVP-377), a United States...
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    Navy until 1993 as the special forces tender Pietro Cavezzale (A 5301). Rockaway was in commission from 1943 to 1946, performing her World War II service...
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    USS Rockaway (AVP-29/AG-123/WAGO-377/WHEC-377/WOLE-377) USS Rockbridge (APA-228/LPA-228) USS Rockdale (AK-208) USS Rocket (1862, YT-22, AMc-101) USS Rockford...
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    USS APc-1 USS APc-2 USS APc-3 USS APc-4 USS APc-5 USS APc-6 USS APc-7 USS APc-8 USS APc-9 USS APc-10 USS APc-11 USS APc-12 USS APc-13 USS APc-14 USS APc-15...
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    Rockaway Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 25...
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    The U.S. Navy sank her as a target in 1968. Rockaway served as the U.S. Navy seaplane tender USS Rockaway (AVP-29) from 1943 to 1946. She was loaned to...
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    York. In early 1919, Privateer was attached to Naval Air Station Rockaway at Rockaway in Queens, New York, for postwar duty. On 28 July 1919 she was assigned...
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    planes training in the area. On 15 December 1944, the seaplane tender USS Rockaway relieved Unimak, releasing her to steam north via Norfolk, Virginia to...
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    Norfolk detachment and the squadron's equipment left for Casablanca on USS Rockaway. Its aircraft left Quonset Point on 21 February for Morrison Field in...
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    squadron was temporarily based aboard USS Rockaway for advanced base training. April 1945: VPB-211 was based aboard USS Humboldt at Bahia Bay to assist in...
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  • Silas Duncan (category People from Rockaway Township, New Jersey)
    was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Born in Rockaway Township, New Jersey, Duncan was appointed midshipman 15 November 1809...
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    Solo, Panama, early on 11 February 1945 and relieved seaplane tender USS Rockaway (AVP-29). For the next few months, Barnegat served in constant "ready...
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    USS Isabel (SP-521), later PY-10, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a destroyer from 1917 to 1920 and as a patrol yacht from 1921...
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    remainder of the equipment, supplies and personnel were shipped aboard USS Rockaway, arriving on 8 April. Duties consisted of antishipping patrols, convoy...
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    services provided by USS Rehoboth and later USS Matagorda. A second detachment was formed on the 21st at Bahia based on USS Rockaway and a third detachment...
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    commissioned as USS Elithro II (SP-15) on 26 December 1917. Elithro II performed intermittent plane guard duty at the Naval Coastal Air Station, Rockaway Beach...
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    Basin. She later served as an experimental ship with Naval Air Station Rockaway and Naval Air Station Montauk Point. Decommissioned after World War I,...
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    airship was piloted by Lieutenant George Crompton, Dirigible Officer at NAS Rockaway, and the airplane by Lieutenant A. W. Redfield, USA, commander of the 52nd...
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  • train between Grand Central and Port Authority Franklin Avenue Shuttle Rockaway Park Shuttle Amtrak Hartford Line, formerly named the New Haven–Springfield...
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    Charles Lindbergh's solo, non-stop flight. Read's flight started from Rockaway Beach, Long Island, took 23 days before arriving in Plymouth, England....
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    found only in these sources: Berg, Daniel (2000). Bermuda Shipwrecks. East Rockaway, NY: Aqua Explorers. ISBN 0961616741. Berlitz, Charles (1974). The Bermuda...
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  • Raising the Flag at Ground Zero (category Rockaway, Queens)
    firefighters pictured were Brooklyn-based firefighters George Johnson of Rockaway Beach, Dan McWilliams of Long Island (both from Ladder 157), and Billy...
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  • Golden Venture (category Rockaway, Queens)
    with 13 crew members that ran aground on the beach at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway peninsula of Queens, New York on June 6, 1993, at around 2 a.m. The ship...
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    water, and providing aid and comfort to the residents of Staten Island and Rockaway, Queens. The Marines and Sailors would move ashore by helicopter or surface...
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    the State Fair of Texas sometime between 1938 and 1942. Pronto Pup of Rockaway Beach, Oregon, claims to have invented the corn dog in 1939. Cozy Dog Drive-in...
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    the origin of Marine Corps Aviation. Three US Navy ships have been named USS Marblehead. A center of recreational boating, Marblehead has long been a...
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    District was established in 1974. The U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville was named in honor of the town. Greeneville is part of the Johnson...
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  • Thumbnail for Elmer Fowler Stone
    October 12, 1917, Stone was assigned to the U.S. Navy Aeronautic Station at Rockaway, New York. In May 1919 First Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone was one of the two...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Sabalo (SP-225)
    The first USS Sabalo (SP-225) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Following World War I, Sabalo was sold to private...
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