• States Navy's Bureau of Ships (BuShips) was established by Congress on 20 June 1940, by a law which consolidated the functions of the Bureau of Construction...
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  • president of M.I.T., and director of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. After one race of one mile (1961), one of 1.75 miles (1962) and another of two miles...
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  • the Bureau's functions with those of the Bureau of Engineering (BuEng), creating the Bureau of Ships (BuShips). The Bureau was staffed by officers of the...
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    "Ever Gifted (189095)". Register of ships. Nippon Kaiji Kyokai. Retrieved 4 August 2020. "Ever Glory (9786839)". LR ships in class. Lloyd's Register. Retrieved...
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    Operation Sailor Hat (category Military projects of the United States)
    Sailor Hat was a series of explosives effects tests, conducted by the United States Navy Bureau of Ships under the sponsorship of the Defense Atomic Support...
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    meeting, it was decided that the Bureau of Ships would design these vessels. As with the standing agreement, these ships would be built by the US so British...
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  • changes. The Bureau of Ships (BuShips) was established in 1940, through the merger of the Bureau of Construction and Repair and the Bureau of Engineering...
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  • of Shipping has classified nuclear ships, the only classification society to do so. Classification surveyors inspect ships to make sure that the ship...
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    into two types, most crudely described as ships and craft. In general, the ships carry the troops from the port of embarkation to the drop point for the assault...
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    PT boat (category Patrol vessels of the United States Navy)
    motorboats against capital ships, and he presented his proposal to Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, the chief of the US Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair...
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  • Naval Vessel Register (category Ship registration)
    the Bureau of Construction and Repair published Ships Data US Naval Vessels, which subsequently became the Ships Data Book in 1952 under the Bureau of Ships...
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    Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, passenger ships primarily used for transportation across seas...
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    deciding where a ship was heading and where to aim. Furthermore, the ships painted in dazzle were larger than the uncamouflaged ships, 38% of them being over...
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    Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (category Submarines of the United States Navy)
    immediately focused on designing a new class of submarine, but the Bureau of Ships believed the fleet of existing Gato, Balao, and Tench-class submarines...
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  • Henry A. Schade (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    Head of the Carrier Desk for the United States Navy's Bureau of Ships. In this capacity he was highly influential in the development of all classes of aircraft...
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    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post...
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    (1963). "XXII". History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Ships and Office of Naval History. pp. 261–265...
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  • like the shipping containers of a container ship. List of largest cruise ships "Pioneering Spirit (9593505)". LR ships in class. Lloyd's Register. Retrieved...
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    theory of circuits, practical work in overhaul, vacuum tube amplification of primary circuit. Velocity power tools, practical work Bureau of Ships Diving...
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  • (BuEng). In 1940 it combined with the Bureau of Construction and Repair (BuC&R) and became the Bureau of Ships (BuShips). "Engineering, both in operating...
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    Commission and then assumed control of the Navy's effort as Director of the Naval Reactors Branch in the Bureau of Ships. Progress was made quickly with countless...
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    Charles A. Lockwood (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    East China Sea and the South China Sea. He pushed the Navy's Bureau of Ships and Bureau of Ordnance to provide his men with the most effective submarines...
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    Later in the war, his service as head of the Electrical Section in the Bureau of Ships brought him a Legion of Merit and gave him experience in directing...
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    Swietenia mahagoni (category Flora of Florida)
    and Jamaica for building many ships of the Spanish Armada prior to 1588. A number of the largest Spanish ships were built of West Indies mahogany. Spain...
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  • Hamilton Watch Company (category Watch manufacturing companies of the United States)
    and the movements of both were marked "U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships". The Model 22 was also used by the U.S. Army, and on the back of some, it is marked...
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    Homer N. Wallin (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    Island and Philadelphia Navy Yards and at the Bureau of Construction and Repair (redesignated the Bureau of Ships in 1940). During this time, Wallin met and...
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    Balao-class submarine (category World War II submarines of the United States)
    to design a new pump, caused Rear Admiral E. L. Cochrane, Chief of the Bureau of Ships, to limit test depth to 400 ft (120 m). Fortunately, in 1944 a redesigned...
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  • Bureau Veritas provided insurers with information that enabled them to assess the reliability of ships and equipment, and to ensure the protection of...
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    1940 Fleet Problem (exercise), the Bureau of Ships (BuShips) directed in January 1941 that the peacetime color of overall #5 Standard Navy Gray, a light...
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  • Nuclear navy (category Nuclear-powered ships of the United States Navy)
    [citation needed] Soon after World War II, Rickover was assigned to the Bureau of Ships in September 1947 and received training in nuclear power at Oak Ridge...
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