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    USS Sapelo (AO-11) was a Patoka-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Laid down on 3 May 1919 for the United States Shipping Board...
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  • October she proceeded to blockade Sapelo Sound. On 7 November Polontska escorted Army transport USS Darlington up the Sapelo River, Georgia, shelling the shore...
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    (ID-2253) USS Santiago de Cuba (1861) USS Sapelo (AO-11) USS Sappa Creek (AO-141) USS Sapphire (SP-710, PYc-2) USS Sappho (SP-1427, AKA-38) USS Sara Thompson...
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    minor collision with the U.S. Navy oiler USS Sapelo. While Enoree suffered no damage in the mishap, Sapelo required minor repairs. Shifting thence to...
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    conference, and subsequently served as executive officer aboard the oil tanker USS Sapelo. He resigned from active duty in 1930, immediately taking a reserve commission...
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    fleet replenishment oiler USS Sapelo, serving with the Pacific Fleet. One month later, he was transferred to the battleship USS Tennessee, where he had...
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    USS Arcturus (AK-12) USS Alchiba (AK-23) USS Algorab (AK-25) USS Betelgeuse (AK-28) Fleet Oilers: USS Patoka (AO-9) USS Sapelo (AO-11) USS Kaweah (AO-15) USS Laramie (AO-16)...
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    warship arrived Charleston 17 November, then proceeded to blockade duty in Sapelo Sound, Georgia. Arriving 20 November, she operated from there, capturing...
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    planted small mines, to Port Royal, Bermuda, to which she escorted Keawah and Sapelo in December. Project continued Atlantic Ocean coast operations during the...
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    USS Anderson (DD-411) was a Sims-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Edwin Alexander Anderson, Jr., a Medal of Honor...
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  • blockade the entrance to the sound. On the 28th, Wamsutta was ordered to Sapelo Sound, Georgia, to relieve Potomska and remained until ordered to Wassaw...
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    AG-125. Patoka served as tender for the airships USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) and USS Shenandoah (ZR-1). Sapelo (AO-11) Ramapo (AO-12). Ramapo encountered the...
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  • United States Navy who was killed during World War II aboard the submarine USS Scorpion. The park is located on a plot of land that was once Petersburg...
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    with his great uncle Thomas Spalding, whose family owned a large part of Sapelo Island. Kell was appointed midshipman at the age of 17 in the United States...
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  • USCGC Naushon (WPB-1311) USCGC Sanibel (WPB-1312) USCGC Edisto (WPB-1313) USCGC Sapelo (WPB-1314) USCGC Matinicus (WPB-1315) USCGC Nantucket (WPB-1316) USCGC Baranof (WPB-1318)...
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    States. Milanich lists the succession of periods at Cannon's Point as: Sapelo Period (2500–1000 BC); ceramics related to those of the Stallings culture...
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    eponymous tobacco company, initially for a world cruise. Reynolds owned Sapelo Island on the Atlantic coast of Georgia, known by Spanish colonists as Zapala...
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    the oaks, hew them, and lug the pieces by oxen to coastal landings. The USS Constitution—"Old Ironsides"—was constructed with live oak. Prior to the...
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    the war, after which they were decommissioned and scrapped. Patoka (AO-9) Sapelo (AO-11) Ramapo (AO-12) Trinity (AO-13) Rapidan (AO-18) Salinas (AO-19) Sepulga...
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    River National Recreation Area Cumberland Island National Seashore Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve...
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    of Georgia (U.S. state)-related articles Outline of Georgia (U.S. state) USS Georgia, 2 ships Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988...
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    Duke, entitled "Defiant". On March 1, 2023, the Navy renamed USS Chancellorsville to USS Robert Smalls after Smalls, based on a recommendation from The...
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    poor relations in the following years. In 1820, the United States Navy sent USS Cyane under the command of Captain Edward Trenchard to patrol the slave coasts...
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    St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, Sapelo Island, and Blackbeard Island. The islands are part of a long chain of barrier...
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  • Morbihan. Sunbeam  United States The 255-gross register ton bark was stranded on Sapelo Island on the coast of Georgia. All eight people on board survived....
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  • establish a colony north of the Bahama Islands. Ayllón selects the mouth of the Sapelo River in Georgia and establishes the colony of San Miguel de Gualdape on...
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  •  Royal Navy Escort 22 Apr - 3 May Escort Group B7 Rena (1924)  Norway 5,242 Sapelo (1919)  United States 5,422 Joined Ex-Iceland 26 Apr Selvistan (1924)  United...
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    Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to make two sixty-foot murals of Sapelo Island, Georgia, Life magazine sent Tice to Hutchinson, Kansas to contribute...
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    on October 4, the cyclone turned west-southwestward and made landfall at Sapelo Island, Georgia, at the same intensity. The storm rapidly weakened and dissipated...
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