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    USS Ranger, later USS Rockport and USS Nantucket (PG-23/IX-18), was a gunboat of the United States Navy. A screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail...
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  • American Civil War. USS Nantucket (IX-18) – started off as Ranger when laid down in 1873, then renamed to Rockport before being named Nantucket. While seeing...
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  • 1900 USS Nantucket (IX-18), built in 1876 as USS Ranger and served as Nantucket from 1918 to 1942, as a gunboat and then a survey/school ship USS Nantucket (SP-1153)...
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  • USS Rockport may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy: USS Nantucket (IX-18) once bore the name Rockport during her 65-year...
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    org. Trenton True American Websites. Retrieved 31 December 2017. "USS Nantucket (IX 18); (ex-Ranger) - Commanding Officers". navsource.org. NavSource Online:...
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    USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the ninth US Navy...
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    (LST-1064) USS Nanshan (AG-3) USS Nantahala (ID-3519, AO-60) USS Nantasket (1867) USS Nanticoke (AOG-66, YTB-803) USS Nantucket (1862, 1907, PG-23/IX-18, SP-1153...
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    Tacloban USS Nantucket (PG-23), ex-Rockport, later IX-18 USS Dolphin (PG-24) USS Marblehead (PG-27) ex-C-11 USS Denver (PG-28), ex-C-14, later CL-16 USS Des...
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    Hawk (IX-14), ex-PY-2 Prairie State (IX-15), ex-BB-7 Tallahassee (IX-16), ex-BM-9 Monadnock (IX-17), ex-BM-3 Nantucket (IX-18), ex-PG-23 Newport (IX-19)...
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    – 4 Vehicle cargo ship – 48 (of 58) Reserve Fleet ships (USS, USNS) – 22 Cruiser – 9 (of 18) Dock landing ship – 2 (of 12) Dry dock – 1 Instrumentation...
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  • HMAS Havoc USS Hillary Clinton – aircraft carrier HMAS Ipswich USS Kandahar USS Kennebunkport USS Leyte Gulf HMAS Moreton Bay KRI Nuku USS Providence...
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  • (AM-17) USS Galatea (SP-714) USS Galaxy (IX-54) USS General Putnam (SP-2284) USS Indianapolis (ID-3865) USS Jamestown (PG-55) Lotosland USS Lydonia (SP-700)...
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    impression that an attack had been carried out. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO...
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    USS Wabash was a steam screw frigate of the United States Navy that served during the American Civil War. She was based on the same plans as Colorado...
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    Mayaguez. The aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, then en route to Australia, was ordered into the area.: 43  The destroyer escort USS Harold E. Holt and the guided...
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    That same year, Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed. In the summer of 1839, he became assistant...
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    opposed to being permanently occupied. Captain George B. Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it Worth Island. Daniel...
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    coups—not all successful—occurred in a short period of time. On 2 August 1964, USS Maddox, on an intelligence mission along North Vietnam's coast, fired upon...
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    missions for Eighth Air Force bombers over western Europe from mid-1943. With IX Fighter Command, it was re-equipped with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in...
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    in the Thomas Nickerson Collection, 1819–1876, Folder 1. Nantucket, Massachusetts: Nantucket Historical Society. Halls (2020), p. 111. Grant & al. (2009)...
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    defense, including: USS Richard B. Anderson USS Cochrane USS Kirk USS Gurke USS Rowan USS Cook USS Bausell The USS Enterprise and USS Coral Sea carrier...
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    Islands 26 March U.S. naval victory over Japanese, USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) damaged Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 18 April 13,000 Polish Jews are killed by German...
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    short its port period for the carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS Constellation and ordered USS Midway, USS America and USS Saratoga to augment the fleet so that...
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    Operation Coronado IX was a riverine military operation conducted by the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) of the United States and elements of the Army of the...
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    flagship, guided missile cruiser USS Oklahoma City, the guided missile frigate USS Sterett, and destroyers USS Lloyd Thomas and USS Higbee. The American warships...
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    Massachusetts Historic Places Dictionary: Barnstable County-middlesex County/ Nantucket County-worcester County. State History Publications. ISBN 978-1-878592-67-5...
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    invasion" of the South. The USS Buchanan was hit by PAVN coastal artillery on Hon Mat Island near Vinh, killing one crewman.: 399  18 April Testifying before...
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    attacked the USCGC Point Dume, USS Boston and HMAS Hobart near Tiger Island killing two Royal Australian Navy crewmen. 18 June The South Vietnamese military...
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    campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War. More than 20,000 tons...
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    of Glacier Bay Cruise West 1984 Operating; formerly: Spirit of Nantucket and Nantucket Clipper Spirit of Oceanus Cruise West Ended service 1992. Subsequently:...
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