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    USS Memorable (AMc-89) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid...
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    USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged...
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    USS Tarawa (LHA-1), the lead ship of her class, was an amphibious assault ship that served in the United States Navy from 1976 to 2009. She was the second...
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    USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) was an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate of the United States Navy. The ship was named for General Alexander A. Vandegrift (1887–1973)...
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    classes USS AMS-59 USS AMS-61 USS AMS-62 USS AMS-63 USS AMS-64 USS AMS-65 USS AMS-66 USS AMS-67 USS AMS-68 USS AMS-71 USS AMS-73 USS AMS-74 USS AMS-75 USS AMS-76...
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    It USS M-1 (SS-47) USS M. J. Scanlon (ID-3513) USS M. M. Davis (SP-314) USS M. W. Chapin (1856) USS Maartensdijk (ID-2497) USS Macabi (SS-375) USS Macaw...
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    USS Chandler (DD-206/DMS-9/AG-108) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the only ship named for William Eaton Chandler, who...
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    USS Governor (AMc-82) USS Guide (AMc-83) USS Heroic (AMc-84) USS Ideal (AMc-85) USS Industry (AMc-86) USS Liberator (AMc-87) USS Loyalty (AMc-88) USS Memorable (AMc-89)...
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    Europe. On 2 September 1945, formal surrender occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. In Japan, 15 August usually is known as the "memorial...
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    USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the lead ship of her class and type and the first amphibious assault ship to be designed and built from the keel up as a dedicated...
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    Kirk Douglas (redirect from USS PC-1139)
    Minnelli said Douglas should have won an Oscar: "He achieved a moving and memorable portrait of the artist—a man of massive creative power, triggered by severe...
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    USS Farragut (DDG-99) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth Navy ship named for Admiral David Farragut (1801–1870)...
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  • Asano, Hamish Linklater and Liam Neeson. Filming took place in Hawaii and on USS Missouri. In the film, the crews of a small group of warships are forced...
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  • USS Ohio was a schooner "launched at Cleveland in 1810 by merchants named Murray and Bigsbey." purchased by the US Navy in 1812; converted to a warship...
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    USS Mercedita was a wooden steamer that served as a gunboat in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Mercedita was built at Brooklyn, New York...
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    due to their small size. Notable ships: USS Industry, USS Liberator, USS Loyalty, USS Memorable, USS Merit and USS Observer. Fulton Shipyard built Agile-class...
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    of divorcing his first wife, Deborah Falconer — has said that his most memorable recollection about shooting Gothika was "romancing the producer"; Levin...
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    USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She originally designated an AVG, was classified ACV-68 on 20...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Sculpin (SSN-590)
    USS Sculpin (SSN-590), a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sculpin. Sculpin′s...
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  • in the rescue of the crew of the capsized USS Oklahoma, but are too late to save them from the obliterated USS Arizona. The next day, President Franklin...
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  • Alien (film) (redirect from USS Nostromo)
    scene an intense sense of realism and made it one of the film's most memorable moments. During preview screenings, the crew noticed that some viewers...
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    USS Ashuelot was an iron-hulled, double-ended, side-wheel Mohongo-class gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for a river in New Hampshire...
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    USS John C. Butler (DE-339) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was...
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    Marshal James Strickland, in Back to the Future Part III (1990). Other memorable film roles include Love and Death (1975), Top Gun (1986), Masters of the...
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    by Gwynne's comedic work in Mrs. McThing. As a result, Gwynne made a memorable appearance on The Phil Silvers Show in the episode "The Eating Contest"...
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  • The fourth USS Uncas (YT-242) was United States Navy tug in commission from 1942 to 1946. Uncas was built by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company at Orange...
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  • Picard in the year 2401 as he reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna...
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    skull-and-crossbones-adorned F-14's to international stardom. The movie featured a memorable scene involving two VF-84 Tomcats engaging two Japanese A6M Zeros. In...
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    between 1956 and 1957 on board the USS Iowa (BB-61), a World War II and Korean war battleship. During his time on the USS Iowa, he travelled extensively to...
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    he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F. Stockton...
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