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    USS Shoveler (AM-382) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water...
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    USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine...
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  • BAP Diez Canseco (1960), was an Auk-class minesweeper launched in 1944 as USS Shoveler she was transferred to Peru in 1960 BAP Diez Canseco (DD-79), was a Friesland-class...
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    USS Shoveler (AM-382) USS Surfbird (AM-383) USS Sprig (AM-384) USS Tanager (AM-385) USS Tercel (AM-386) USS Toucan (AM-387) USS Towhee (AM-388) USS Waxwing (AM-389)...
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    authored by Shovels & Rope chronicle historical events. "Thresher" from their 2014 album Swimmin' Time references the April 10, 1963 sinking of the USS Thresher (SSN-593)...
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    SC-1634) USS S-1 (SS-105) USS S-2 (SS-106) USS S-3 (SS-107) USS S-4 (SS-109) USS S-5 (SS-110) USS S-6 (SS-111) USS S-7 (SS-112) USS S-8 (SS-113) USS S-9 (SS-114)...
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    minesweeping. March 1946, Yashiro, Sea No. 48, Sea No. 49, Sea No. 77, USS Shoveler and USS Redstart were minesweeping in the sea near Kikaijima based on Amami...
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  • "secret army" of innkeepers and peasants in John Buchan's novel Midwinter Shoveler, four species of dabbling ducks with long, broad spatula-shaped beaks Spoon-billed...
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    made them well-suited. USS Langley, the first aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, was a converted collier (originally USS Jupiter). It was fitted...
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    submarines were retired. In 1920 USS O-12, USS O-13, USS O-15, and USS O-16 arrived at the base and were retired in 1924. The USS O-5 sank after being hit by...
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  • Dipper, former name of the airfield RNAS Henstridge , Somerset, England USS Dipper (AM-357), an American World War II minesweeper Collins Dipper, American...
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    USS Wadena (SP-158) was a converted yacht patrol vessel of the United States Navy during World War I. She was built in 1891 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a steam...
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  • destroyer in service from 1976 to 1999 USS Birmingham (CL-2), a light cruiser in service from 1908 to 1923 USS Birmingham (CL-62), a light cruiser, in...
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    submarines USS S-2 (SS-106) USS S-3 (SS-107) USS S-6 (SS-111) USS S-10 (SS-115) USS S-19 (SS-124) USS S-50 (SS-161) USS S-7 (SS-112) USS S-8 (SS-113) USS S-9 (SS-114)...
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  • American naval officer Thomas Calloway Latimore, who was captain of the USS Dobbin and the 24th (22nd unique) Governor of American Samoa, disappeared...
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  • USS Sanda, later USS YP-3 was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1920 which later served New York City for over 20 years. Sanda...
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  • in Shovel Knight Spectre (Blake), one of the elements of humans in William Blake's mythology Spectre (Dungeons & Dragons), an undead creature USS Specter...
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  • airship 245 m (803 ft 10 in) 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in) 215 t (474,000 lb) 1936 1937 USS Akron Rigid airship 239 m (784 ft 1 in) 40 m (131 ft 3 in) 182.8 t (403,000 lb)...
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    on USS Midway, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Long Beach, USS Peleliu, USS Arkansas, USS Gary, USS San Bernardino, USS Rodney M. Davis, USS Ingraham, USS Lake...
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    it with grease. Greg was later thanked by Armstrong. The aircraft carrier USS Hornet, under the command of Captain Carl J. Seiberlich, was selected as...
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    his settlers took the opportunity to leave in 1831 following a raid by the USS Lexington. An attempt made by Argentina to establish a penal colony in 1832...
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    from poor visibility, and two more suffered fatal heart attacks from shoveling ash. U.S. President Jimmy Carter surveyed the damage, and said it looked...
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    River. Courtenay also took credit for the boiler explosion on the gunboat USS Chenango that scalded 33 men (28 fatally), though the vessel itself survived...
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    in Hold 3. The furnaces required over 600 tonnes of coal a day to be shovelled into them by hand, requiring the services of 176 firemen working around...
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    USS LST-886 and USS LST-945 unload fuel at Tinian...
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    served as training platforms for the Submarine School. The last O-boat, USS O-4, was decommissioned in September 1945. O-4 had served for 27 years and...
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  • Rhaetian Railway locomotive class Ground effect machine (GEM), a hovercraft USS Gem (SP-41), a U.S. Navy patrol vessel 1917-1919 Gem (moth), of the family...
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  • Children were left in a room with toys, including a greatly desirable steam shovel, the forbidden toy. Upon leaving the room, the experimenter told one-half...
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    Navy Commander USS Vestal, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii December 7, 1941 Moved his ship, the USS Vestal, away from the battleship USS Arizona, and...
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    False flag allegations USS Maine (1898) RMS Lusitania (1915) Reichstag fire (1933) Pearl Harbor (1941) USS Liberty (1967) Lufthansa Flight 615 (1972)...
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