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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    1819 (redirect from AD 1819)
    in the Williams. November 2 – Bagyidaw is crowned as Emperor of Burma, at the imperial capital of Inwa. November 3 – The USS Congress, commanded by Captain...
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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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    in Chicago and at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center in Melville, Rhode Island. His first command was PT-101 from December 7, 1942, until...
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    Fram was used in several expeditions: Wreckage found at Greenland from USS Jeannette, which was lost off Siberia, and driftwood found in the regions...
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