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    USS Opportune (ARS-41) was a Bolster-class rescue and salvage ship acquired by the United States Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the...
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  • Look up opportune in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Opportune may refer to: HMS Opportune (S20), an Oberon class submarine USS Opportune (ARS-41), a...
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  • September 1994. USS Bolster (ARS-38) USS Conserver (ARS-39) USS Hoist (ARS-40) USS Opportune (ARS-41) USS Reclaimer (ARS-42) USS Recovery (ARS-43) USS Retriever (ARS-44)...
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    White House. May 1961. John Glenn honored by the President. February 1962 USS Kearsarge with crew spelling Mercury-9. May 1963. The 20 uncrewed flights...
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    success The rescue tower rocket ignited 10 seconds too late. Recovered by USS Opportune 11.5 mi (18.5 km) SE of Wallops Island. Little Joe 2 December 4, 1959...
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    1982 who went on to become the first woman to command a naval vessel, USS Opportune, in 1990.) In 1981, Hector began her 25th deployment, visiting Subic...
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    Navy officer. Upon assuming command of the rescue and salvage ship USS Opportune on December 27, 1990, she became the first woman to command a U.S. Navy...
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    became the first woman to assume command of a ship in the U.S. Navy (USS Opportune (ARS-41)). CMDCM Carol Cooper became the first female Command Master...
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    during the American Civil War had worked as a nurse on the navy hospital ship USS Red Rover, where she assisted Sisters of the Holy Cross, was granted a pension...
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    (PYc-48) USS Onyx (PYc-5) USS Oosterdijk (ID-2586) USS Opal (PYc-8) USS Opelika (YTB-798) USS Ophir (ID–2800) USS Opponent (AM-269/MSF-269) USS Opportune (ARS-41)...
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    Independence Day 1977. During this firing exercise, a dummy shell hit USS Opportune (ARS-41) which was towing a target sled. Further work in the Bahamas...
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    USS APc-1 USS APc-2 USS APc-3 USS APc-4 USS APc-5 USS APc-6 USS APc-7 USS APc-8 USS APc-9 USS APc-10 USS APc-11 USS APc-12 USS APc-13 USS APc-14 USS APc-15...
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    HMS Opportune was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 3 September 1939 for the 1st...
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    USS Hawaii (SSN-776) USS North Carolina (SSN-777) USS Missouri (SSN-780) USS Mississippi (SSN-782) USS Minnesota (SSN-783) USS Illinois (SSN-786) USS Vermont (SSN-792)...
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    HMS Biter (D97) (redirect from USS Biter)
    left for Iceland on 13 April accompanied by the destroyers Obdurate and Opportune arriving on 17 April. Along with HMS Pathfinder these ships formed 5th...
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    launched successful air strikes on bridges, North Korean troops, and other opportune targets. HMS Theseus' operations in the Korean War primarily concentrated...
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    (CIGS, the professional head of the British Army), felt the time was not opportune, and favored an Allied assault on the island of Sicily followed by an...
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    and she was scuttled; surviving crew were rescued by HMS Opportune. USS Hornet was sunk and USS Enterprise was badly damaged at the Battle of the Santa...
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    Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. p. 94. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2. "U.S.S. Abbot (DD 184), 1919-1940". U.S.S. Abbot. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012...
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    Mahan's emphasis on the capital ship and the command of the sea came at an opportune moment. Mahan's name became a household word in the Imperial German Navy...
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  • portico, portière †portula portul- portus port- importune, importunity, opportune, opportunity, port posterus • posterior • postremus poster- • posterior-...
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  • force that included HMS Savage, Saumarez, Scorpion, HNoMS Stord, HMS Opportune, Virago, Musketeer and Matchless. The Japanese cruiser Haguro was intercepted...
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    voyage. Initially escorted by the destroyers Orwell, Obedient, Offa, Opportune, and Rotherham, the ship rendezvoused with the Home Fleet on 1 February...
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  • 0 0 0 Sunk 24 April 1945 USS Flaherty, USS Varian, USS Neunzer, USS Hubbard, USS Keith, USS Chatelain, USS Janssen, and USS Pillsbury U-547 1943 IXC/40...
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    so great in fact as to prevent any measurement of that line till an opportune cloud moderated the light. I am not prepared to offer any explanation...
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    into the 1940s, the committee's activities were suspended until a more opportune time. The money that had been collected was put into a savings account...
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  • S20 (California), United States Brazilian submarine Humaitá (S20) HMS Opportune (S20), a submarine of the Royal Navy INS Kursura (S20), a submarine of...
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    tactician, believing in the primacy of battle and his ability to seize the opportune moment to launch a successful attack. "The important thing", wrote Maurice...
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    centered in the Santa Barbara Channel, it caused no tsunami. It came at an opportune time for rebuilding, since a movement for architectural reform and unification...
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    an effort to get the contract moving, offered the hulls of Ocelot and Opportune, but Canada passed on them. However, when Onyx became available, Canada...
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