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    USS Melville (AD-2) was a United States Navy destroyer tender that saw service in both World Wars. Laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of...
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  • States Navy have borne the name Melville, in honor of George W. Melville, an engineer and arctic explorer. USS Melville (AD-2), was a destroyer tender, launched...
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  • AD 2 (2 CE) was a common year of the Julian calendar. AD 2 may also refer to: Ad 2, a division of the American Advertising Federation USS Melville (AD-2)...
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    as commanding officer of USS Melville (AD-2) from June 8, 1936, to June 11, 1938. Promoted to captain while commanding Melville—on December 23, 1937—he...
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    participated in this troop lift, when she and the destroyer tender USS Melville (AD-2) transported Marine Observation Squadron 1 and a rifle company from...
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  • was assigned to the USS Melville (AD-2). He captained the USS Livingston (AP-163) before taking command of the newly commissioned USS Gage (APA-168), an...
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    USS Yosemite (AD-19) was a Dixie-class destroyer tender built during World War II for the U.S. Navy. Her task was to service destroyers in, or near, battle...
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    1943. USS Dixie (AD-1) USS Melville (AD-2) Dobbin-class USS Dobbin (AD-3) USS Whitney (AD-4) Unknown classes USS Prairie (AD-5) USS Panther (AD-6) USS Leonidas...
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    orders to the destroyer USS Manley and then to USS Melville. In November 1919 he was temporarily assigned to the destroyer USS Reid, then fitting out at...
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    USS Megara (ARV(A)-6/ARVA-6) USS Megrez (AK-126) USS Mellena (AKA-32) USS Mellette (APA-156) USS Melucta (AK-131) USS Melville (AD-2, T-AGOR-14) USS Melvin...
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    that fashion. She also supplied diesel fuel to the destroyer tender USS Melville (AD-2). Later, on 14 August 1942, she got underway from Skagafjörður to...
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    LST-209 received an armament conversion alongside destroyer tender USS Melville (AD-2), losing her single 3-inch (76 mm) gun and receiving several 40 millimeter...
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    July 1924. pp. 58–59. Archived from the original on 28 July 2016. "USS Melville (AD-2) – Commanding Officers". navsource.org. NavSource Online: Amphibious...
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  • American science fiction thriller film that is an adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. The film is an Asylum production, and stars Barry...
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    January 1945. The USS Black Hawk (AD-9) a destroyer tender operated out of Naval Base Darwin from January 3 to February 1942. USS Langley (CV-1), the...
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    USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) is a Cleveland-class light cruiser and one of 27 completed for the United States Navy during or shortly after World...
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    16 June to 14 November, Vulcan shifted to Hvalfjörður and relieved Melville (AD-2) there on 18 November. She remained at "Valley Forge" until she got...
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  • HMCS Arrowhead, a World War II Royal Navy/Royal Canadian Navy corvette USS Arrowhead (AD-35), a planned destroyer tender that was cancelled due to the end...
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    Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. xvi. ISBN 0-521-55477-2. Melville, Herman (1855). White-Jacket; or, The world in a man-of-war. New York:...
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  • by Arthur Koestler, 1939 The Gladiators, an 1863 novel by George Whyte-Melville The Gladiator (play), by Robert Montgomery Bird, premiered 1831 The Gladiators...
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    act." "Sharp, John G.M. The Ship Log of the frigate USS United States 1843–1844 and Herman Melville Ordinary Seaman 2019, pp. 3–4 accessed 12 December...
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    USS Enoree (AO-69) was a Chiwawa-class oiler constructed for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Navy ship named for the...
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    Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is also referred to as...
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    west and the east. It lasted until the total onset of the Thule culture, in AD 1500. The people of the Dorset culture lived mainly by hunting whales and...
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  • was built in 1919, used as a hell ship, and sunk in 1943. The submarine USS Bonefish sank her when she was carrying 548 Allied prisoners of war (PoWs)...
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    au. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Table based on AWM78: 400/2 Darwin Naval Base (HMAS MELVILLE): Reports of Proceedings [war diary] Lewis and Ingman cite...
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    The USS Maine Mast Memorial is a memorial honoring those who died aboard the USS Maine (ACR-1) on February 15, 1898, after a mysterious explosion destroyed...
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  • Kelley, Wyn (June 2006). "All Astir". Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 8 (2): 101–106. doi:10.1111/j.1750-1849.2006.01138.x. S2CID 201792961...
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    of Santana, Bogart had formed a new company and had plans for a film (Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.) in which he would play a general and Bacall a press magnate...
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  • 1942 (redirect from AD 1942)
    Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the...
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