• USS Token (AM-126) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the...
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  • USS LSM-71 USS LSM-101 USS LSM-208 USS LSM-252 USS LSM-284 USS LSM-290 USS LSM-362 USS LSM-368 USS LSM-371 USS LSM-419 USS LSM-488 USS LSM-180 ? USS Monitor (LSV-5)...
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    patriotic tokens were the flag of the United States, a 19th-century cannon, and the USS Monitor. Among the best-known varieties of patriotic tokens are the...
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    classes USS AMS-59 USS AMS-61 USS AMS-62 USS AMS-63 USS AMS-64 USS AMS-65 USS AMS-66 USS AMS-67 USS AMS-68 USS AMS-71 USS AMS-73 USS AMS-74 USS AMS-75 USS AMS-76...
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    USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name...
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    USS T-1 (SF-1/SS-52, SST-1) USS T-2 (SF-2/SS-60, SST-2) USS T-3 (SF-3/SS-61) USS T. A. Ward (1861) USS T. D. Horner (1859) USS Ta-Kiang (1862) USS Tabberer...
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  • USS Hambleton (DMS-20) USS Fitch (DMS-25) USS Hopkins (DMS-13) USS Jeffers (DMS-27) USS Macomb (DMS-23) USS Revenge (AM-110) USS Token (AM-126) USS Tumult (AM-127)...
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    USS Cape St. George (CG-71) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 19...
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    Conversion of USS Merrimack into CSS Virginia". Warship International. XLIII (2): 157–158. ISSN 0043-0374. Schenkman, David, (1979). Tokens & Medals Commemorating...
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  • office, a pole that indicates a position Staff (railway signalling), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track...
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    World War, Normandie was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS Lafayette. In 1942, while being converted to a troopship, the liner caught...
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    USS Nicholas (DD/DDE-449) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, serving for a total of 27 years, including through most of World War...
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  • Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin Colfer auspicium melioris aevi hope/token of a better age Motto of the Order of St Michael and St George and of Raffles...
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    cruiser USS Washington and served in Mexican waters in June following the American intervention in April. His next assignment was to the gunboat USS Dolphin...
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    east, with no aviation personnel stationed there; and the island had only token defenses. When the Gilbert Islands fell to the United States in late 1943...
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    Insular Force guardsmen fought with the Japanese naval soldiers. After token post-invasion resistance, the Marines, on McMillin's orders, surrendered...
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    USS Essex, plus helicopter assault carrier USS Boxer, destroyers USS Hank, USS John W. Weeks, USS Purdy, USS Wren, and submarines USS Cobbler and USS Threadfin...
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    as helmsman aboard both the USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-A. He is promoted to captain and given command of the USS Excelsior three years before...
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    prompted landing of sailors from USS Tuscarora and Portsmouth. The British warship, HMS Tenedos, also landed a token force. During the reign of King Kalākaua...
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    The capture of USS Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the...
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    of gold from Japan, as foreigners rushed to exchange their silver for "token" silver Japanese coinage and again exchange these against gold, giving a...
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    "before the mast" on the USS Warren and resigned in 1837. Hunter reentered service in 1839, was the sailing master of the USS Portsmouth, led an expedition...
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    sinking of the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea, severe damage to USS Saratoga, and slight damage to the escort carrier USS Lunga Point, an LST, and a transport...
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    USS Mercedita was a wooden steamer that served as a gunboat in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Mercedita was built at Brooklyn, New York...
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    training duties. He briefly commanded two small anti-submarine vessels, USS YP-422 and USS PC-815, in coastal waters off Massachusetts, Oregon and California...
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    fighter sweep were shot down, compared with four Hellcats reported lost. Only token aerial resistance was encountered for the rest of the morning; almost no...
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    grew up, he should move the rock, if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of his royal parentage. In Athens, Aegeus was joined...
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    wounded. In response, the U.S. warships USS Bowen, USS Pharris, USS Virginia, USS John Rodgers, USS Moosbrugger and USS Arthur W. Radford shelled Amal and...
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    until a final settlement could be reached, reducing their presence to a token force of no more than 100 men. The British camp was established on the north...
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    airport, the first or last flight of a specific type of aircraft, as a token of respect for the remains of soldiers killed in action, or other notable...
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