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    The third USS Alert was an iron-hulled screw steamer gunboat in the United States Navy. The lead ship in her class, Alert was destined for a long naval...
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  • that was sold in 1829 for breaking up. USS Alert (1861), was a screw tug used during the Civil War. USS Alert (AS-4), was a screw steamer in use during the...
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    July 1897, he was next assigned to the monitor Monadnock and gunboat USS Alert (AS-4), both of which operated along the West Coast of the Americas. In July...
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    Auxiliary Submarine ship, known as "AS", were USS Alert (AS-4), USS Camden (AS-6) US Rainbow (AS-7) and USS Canopus (AS-9). The USS Beaver was the first specially...
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    USS Ashuelot (1865) USS Mohongo (1864) USS Monocacy (1864) USS Muscoota (1864) USS Shamokin (1864) USS Suwanee (1864) USS Winnipec (1864) USS Alert (AS-4) USS Huron (1875)...
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    surveyed in 1946, and a cache of supplies was dropped at Alert in 1948 by USS Edisto. Alert was the last of the five to be settled when the first twelve...
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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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    USS Argonaut (V-4/SF-7/SM-1/A-1/APS-1/SS-166) was a submarine of the United States Navy, the first boat to carry the name. Argonaut was laid down as V-4...
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    submarines operated out of Pearl Harbor with the submarine tender USS Alert (AS-4) till after World War I. In 1919 a submarine base was built with waterfront...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Edsall (DD-219)
    USS Edsall (DD-219), was a Clemson-class destroyer, the first of two United States Navy ships named after Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899). She...
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    "Navy Alerted to Ford-class Carrier Reliability Issues", DoD Buzz, 31 January 2014, archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Future USS Gerald...
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    USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933...
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    The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (a spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft...
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    USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built during World War II for the United States Navy. Originally intended to...
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    the American guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while transiting international waters as part of Operation Earnest Will, the 1987–88...
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    novels, such as USS Maine (SSBN-741) in The Sum of All Fears (1991). The fictional USS Montana is featured in the 1989 film The Abyss. USS Alabama is the...
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  • monitors: USS Wyandotte, USS Nahant, USS Jason and USS Passaic. The same year, the yard launched two Alert-class gunboats for the Navy, USS Alert and USS Huron...
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    USS Cuttlefish (SC-5/SS-171), a Cachalot-class submarine and one of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cuttlefish...
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  • Thumbnail for Frederick J. Horne
    serve at sea aboard the gunboat USS Alert (AS-4), the wooden screw sloop USS Adams, and as chief engineer of the gunboat USS Wheeling (PG-14). In 1904, he...
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  • she had the misfortune to encounter the frigate USS Essex, which captured Alert. The US Navy used Alert as a storeship and a receiving ship until it had...
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  • USS Vesuvius was a bomb ketch, and the first ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano. Vesuvius was built by Jacob Coffin at Newburyport...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Franklin (CV-13)
    USS Franklin (CV/CVA/CVS-13, AVT-8), nicknamed "Big Ben," was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States...
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    States sent the USS O'Brien (DD-975) and USS McClusky FFG-41 through the strait on 11–12 December 1995. Finally on 19 December 1995, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)...
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    USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Arizona Memorial
    The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona...
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    moonrise over Norway as a large-scale Soviet missile launch. Upon receiving a report of the supposed attack, NORAD went on high alert. However, doubts about...
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    bomb fall USS Rival, mother ship for PC3B submersible USS Sagacity, confirmed Pinnacle's SONAR contact USS Salute USS Skill USS Nespelen USS Fort Snelling...
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    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91/CLG-5/CG-5) was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II, and...
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  • Thumbnail for USS The Sullivans (DD-537)
    USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a retired United States Navy Fletcher-class destroyer. The ship was named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George...
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  • Thumbnail for USS California (ACR-6)
    The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class...
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