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    USS Surprise (PG-63), the fourth American naval ship of the name, was a Temptress-class patrol gunboat during World War II. She was built as the British...
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  • until 1820 USS Surprise (PG-63) was a patrol gunboat purchased from the British Royal Navy in 1942 and decommissioned in 1945 USS Surprise (PG-97) was a...
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    USS SC-49 USS SC-50 USS SC-51 USS SC-52 USS SC-53 USS SC-54 USS SC-55 USS SC-56 USS SC-57 USS SC-58 USS SC-59 USS SC-60 USS SC-61 USS SC-62 USS SC-63...
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  • conditions. Between 21 and 26 March 1945, Charlotte aided Surprise (PG-63) and Tenacity (PG-71), rendezvousing at sea with the ice-damaged gunboats and...
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    the Action class. In US service they were classified as Patrol Gunboats (PG). In December 1941, after the US entry into World War II, the USN had a large...
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    on 1 October 1977. USS Green Bay (PG-101) commissioned on 5 December 1969. Struck on 1 July 1975. (PG-93, PG-95, PG-97, PG-99 & PG-101 were built by Peterson...
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    1989. PLANS Linyi, re-armed cargo ship He Le (和乐) converted from ex-USS Surprise (PG-63). Retired in 1972. PLANS Luoyang, re-armed cargo ship Xiang Xing...
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  • Nov – 11 Nov USS PC-583  United States Navy Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov USS PC-609  United States Navy Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov USS Surprise (PG-63)  United States...
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    USS Mount Baker (AE‑4), originally named USS Kilauea (AE-4), was acquired by the Navy 14 November 1940 while building by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa...
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    USS Suribachi (AE-21) USS Surprise (1777, 1814, 1815, PG-63, PGM-97/PG-97) USS Surprize (1777) USS Surveyor (1917) USS Susan Ann Howard (1863) USS Susan...
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    USS Beacon (PGM-99/PG-99) was an Asheville-class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. She was transferred to the Hellenic Navy where...
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    USS Prudent (PG–96), originally ordered as HMS Privet, was an Action-class patrol gunboat in the United States Navy. Prudent was laid down by the Morton...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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  • HMS Statice (redirect from USS Vim (PG-99))
    were intended for transfer to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. USS Vim (Hull number PG-99) was one of four corvettes ordered on 6 December 1941. She was...
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    uss-liberty.html "USS Liberty: CIA Report "Dayan Personally Ordered the Attack"". July 2017. "Remember the USS Liberty? The US and...
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  • Peter (December 2006). The Echo of a Fighting Flower. Lulu.com. p. 25. ISBN 9781847539472. HMS Heartsease at Uboat.net Hyperwar: USS Courage (PG-70)...
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    cruiser USS New Orleans (CL-22), the gunboat USS Paragua, the gunboat USS Castine (PG-6), the gunboat USS Yorktown (PG-1), the distilling ship USS Iris,...
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  • Avenger torpedo bomber from the escort carrier USS Midway (CVE-63) attacked the U.S. Navy submarine USS Stingray (SS-186) as she crash-dived in the Pacific...
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  • Borneo, 2 May 1945. USS Asheville (PG-21) sunk by Japanese warships south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 3 March 1942. USS Erie (PG-50) torpedoed by German...
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    Brisbane, Australia. TCG Ege (F256), formerly USS Ainsworth in Izmit, Turkey. ROKS Taedong (PF-63), formerly USS Tacoma in South Korea. ROKS Ulsan (FF-951)...
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    Encyclopedia of Ships, pg. 377. Amber Books, London. ISBN 9781905704439 USS Orion (AS-18)US Navy USS Sperry tendertale.com USS GriffinUS Navy Brokaw,...
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    life, but the Spanish–American War had broken out in 1898 shortly after the USS Maine exploded off the coast of Cuba and US president William McKinley had...
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    during the First Barbary War (1801–07) was 1st lieutenant of USS Enterprise, USS New York and USS Philadelphia and was taken prisoner when Philadelphia ran...
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    – which included US moral support to Pakistan, its later dispatch of the USS Enterprise to the Bay of Bengal, and tacit Soviet support to India – along...
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    state treasurer Leo Winters, and spearheading the movement to bring the USS Batfish to Oklahoma. While a state senator, he unsuccessfully ran for Governor...
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    Autobiography". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 76 (1): 59 & 63. The New York Times, December 22, 1994, pg. A1 Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation: The politics of...
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    Crawford, M (ed) pg 221 Snow (2013), pp. 85–88 Elting, p. 216 Snow (2013), p. 90 Elting, p. 217 Snow (2013), p. 92 Elting, p. 218 Howe, p. 63 Mostert, Noel...
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    Grose (2009), p. 191 "Pg 9" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Lewis (2003), pp. 63–71 Margo Daly (2003)...
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  • better". Crossover Chronicles. "In brief." Broadcasting, April 10, 1989, pg. 96. "FOX NETWORK, CH. 29 SPLIT; CH. 49 IS THE NEW SUITOR". The Buffalo News...
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  • The Voyage Home (1986). After the death of Spock (Nimoy), the crew of the USS Enterprise return to Earth. When James T. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that...
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