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  • Thumbnail for White Ensign
    required to serve 'afloat'. Personnel deployed to non-naval establishments are allocated to the crew of HMS Victory.[citation needed] "Indian Navy to finally...
    23 KB (2,185 words) - 15:38, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Expeditionary Transfer Dock
    formerly the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB). The ESD and ESB are part of a new ship class added in 2015 with an E as a new designator, similar to the L-class...
    34 KB (3,471 words) - 05:12, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
    expressing his opinion publicly, the admiralty denied him the opportunity to serve afloat. However, surviving documents show that he was focused on politics...
    65 KB (7,733 words) - 11:09, 10 November 2024
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    Alabama, between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War. They served afloat on Confederate ships and ashore in coast defense batteries operated...
    12 KB (1,351 words) - 21:00, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mobile Riverine Force
    Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that...
    10 KB (1,384 words) - 04:08, 28 October 2023
  • time, it was extremely rare for a Wren, whether rating or officer, to serve afloat. In November 1942, the Allies landed in French North Africa and the...
    5 KB (473 words) - 20:40, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shannon-class lifeboat
    lifeboat currently being deployed to the RNLI fleet to serve the shores of the British Isles. The Shannon class is due to replace most Mersey-class lifeboats...
    26 KB (1,455 words) - 23:39, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Simpson (naval officer)
    before his sixteenth birthday. He served afloat until late 1845, when he became a member of the first class of midshipmen to be trained at the new United States...
    6 KB (635 words) - 19:03, 19 July 2024
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    A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Hulk may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned...
    15 KB (1,859 words) - 17:27, 30 October 2024
  • second episode, McGee, Ziva, and Tony return to the team, while Lee and Keating are transferred back to Legal and Cybercrime, respectively. The two-part...
    41 KB (1,399 words) - 12:47, 14 November 2024
  • Richard Woodman (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    historical novelists, such as C.S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and has...
    6 KB (571 words) - 07:16, 8 November 2024
  • The Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) is a series of annual bilateral military exercises conducted by the United States Pacific Fleet,...
    10 KB (913 words) - 15:09, 23 September 2024
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    Norman Scott (admiral) (category Military aides to the President of the United States)
    Norman Scott served afloat in destroyers and in the battleship USS New York and ashore in Hawaii. From 1924 to 1930, he was assigned to the staff of Commander...
    11 KB (1,164 words) - 04:30, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naval Criminal Investigative Service
    special agents are routinely assigned as law enforcement advisors afloat to serve alongside the Australian sailors looking for contraband. Dick Tracy...
    91 KB (10,321 words) - 20:32, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aubrey Fitch
    boat Chauncey), Fitch became an ensign on February 13, 1908. He then served afloat on Rainbow and Concord before receiving instruction in torpedoes at...
    13 KB (1,447 words) - 00:00, 10 November 2024
  • Dilly Knox (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    The sailor in Room 53 has never, it's true, been to sea but though not in a boat he has served afloat — in a bath in the Admiralty. — Alice in ID25 by...
    24 KB (2,499 words) - 07:59, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for James A. Kirk
    Security Studies. He has served in a variety of afloat and ashore billets as a Surface Warfare officer. He has served afloat on destroyers, cruisers,...
    12 KB (566 words) - 14:21, 15 July 2024
  • HMS Cumberland and HMS Challenger in the Kamerun Campaign of 1914 to 1915. He served afloat in the battleship HMS Canada at the Battle of Jutland in 1916...
    8 KB (816 words) - 20:55, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (United States)
    Tonkin crisis faded, one BLT was sent to Okinawa, another to the Philippines and a third one was served afloat as Special Landing Force of the Seventh...
    13 KB (1,651 words) - 14:57, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Emergency Command Post Afloat
    The National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA) was part of the United States government's Continuity of Operations plans during the 1960s. It was one-third...
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