A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship. A net layer's primary function...
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The Ailanthus class were a group of 35 wooden-hulled net laying ships of the United States Navy built during World War II as part of the huge building...
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Aloe-class net laying ships were a class of thirty-two steel-hulled net laying ships built prior to the US entry into World War II. The lead ship, USS Aloe...
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an unincorporated community USS Teaberry (AN-34), a World War II net laying ship Connie Teaberry (born 1970), American high jumper Clark's Teaberry...
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anti-submarine net or anti-submarine boom is a boom placed across the mouth of a harbour or a strait for protection against submarines. Net laying ships would...
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USS Abele (category Ailanthus-class net laying ships of the United States Navy)
USS Abele (AN-58) was a Ailanthus-class net laying ship in the service of the United States Navy, named after Populus alba, commonly called abele, silver...
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in the U.S. Gum Tree, Kentucky, a place in the U.S. USS Gum Tree, a net laying ship All pages with titles containing Gum tree This disambiguation page...
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An amphibious assault ship is a type of warship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory during an armed conflict. The design evolved...
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Tupelo (redirect from Tupelo (ship))
Class 180 foot buoy tender USS Tupelo (YN-75), an Ailanthus-class net laying ship later renamed the USS Winterberry (AN-56) "Tupelo" (song), 1985 the...
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TCG Göksu (F-497) Also received 8-cell Mk-41 VLS for Evolved Sea Sparrow. The first ship from the İstif class frigates was delivered.> ex D'Estienne d'Orves-class...
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The Cohoes-class net laying ships consisted of fifteen steel hull ships built near the end of World War II for the United States Navy, the last being commissioned...
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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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to defeat them, as in Operation Chastise. Net cutter (submarine) Net cutter (fisheries patrol) Net laying ship Anti-submarine defensesUS Navy Russell, Phil...
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A dock landing ship (also called landing ship, dock or LSD) is an amphibious warfare ship with a well dock to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious...
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support ship (US Navy hull classification symbol: AOE) is a type of replenishment auxiliary ship. Different from traditional logistic ships, the fast...
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Minesweeper (redirect from Mine warfare ship)
became the predecessor of the mine sweeping forces with specially designed ships and equipment to follow. These reserve Trawler Section fishermen and their...
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USS Keokuk (CMc-6) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
USS Keokuk (AN-5/CM-8/CMc-6/AKN-4) was a mine and net laying ship of the United States Navy during World War II. Laid down in 1914 as the SS Henry M....
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A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated...
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Corvette (redirect from Corvette (ship))
The corvettes will have helicopter carrying, mine laying, ice breaking, anti-aircraft and anti-ship abilities. They will be over 100 metres (330 ft) long...
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Mine countermeasures vessel (redirect from Mine countermeasures ship)
A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the location of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a...
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TCG Ağ-6 (category Auxiliary ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy)
(ex-HNLMS Cerberus (A895)) was a net laying ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Currently serving in the Turkish Navy. The ship was built under the Mutual Defense...
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Minelayer (redirect from Mine-laying)
control when a ship was fixed as being within the mine's effective range. An army's special-purpose combat engineering vehicles used to lay landmines are...
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Amphibious transport dock (redirect from Amphibious transport dock ship)
dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force...
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advocates USS Elder (AN-20), a US Navy World War II anti-submarine net laying ship Elder High School, Cincinnati, Ohio Elders Limited, an Australian agribusiness...
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HMS Guardian (1932) (category 1932 ships)
HMS Guardian was a net laying ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1962. She was also equipped for target towing and gunnery photography...
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USS Butternut (category Aloe-class net laying ships)
at Pearl Harbor, she was reclassified a net laying ship and was redesignated AN-9. In January 1945, the ship steamed from the Solomons via Humboldt Bay...
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carriers, converted from Cleveland-class light cruisers, were unsatisfactory ships for aviation with their narrow, short decks and slender, high-sheer hulls;...
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Ironclad warship (redirect from Ironclad ship)
Their performance demonstrated that the ironclad had replaced the unarmored ship of the line as the most powerful warship afloat. Ironclad gunboats became...
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A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line...
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Mimosa (disambiguation) (section Ships)
Zimbabwe Mimosa (ship), a clipper ship that took the first Welsh settlers to Patagonia in 1865 USS Mimosa (AN-26), an Aloe-class net laying ship Mimosa Jallow...
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