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  • Thumbnail for Radar picket
    A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...
    45 KB (5,360 words) - 04:45, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patrol boat
    (2015–present) Grajaú-class offshore patrol vessel Bracuí-class patrol vessel – ex-River-class minesweeper Imperial Marinheiro-class offshore patrol vessel Piratini-class...
    42 KB (3,485 words) - 08:49, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 36-foot picket boat (USCG)
    The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 36-foot picket boats were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers ("rum runners"). After...
    5 KB (356 words) - 17:08, 22 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for 2023 Writers Guild of America strike
    The WGA instructed members to begin picketing on May 2, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. PDT. Some places that the WGA has picketed include AMC Networks, Amazon/Culver...
    108 KB (8,978 words) - 00:30, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike
    absence of a vote at national level. Violent confrontations between flying pickets and police characterised the year-long strike, which ended in a decisive...
    175 KB (18,845 words) - 11:51, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for February 1974 United Kingdom general election
    high-profile clashes of 1972, with no violence and only six men on each picket line. Jim Prior later wrote that the miners had been "as quiet and well-behaved...
    57 KB (3,012 words) - 11:53, 6 July 2024
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    that called for 20 new cutters, 200 coastal patrol cutters and 90 fast picket boats. He also asked for 20 million dollars to fund new construction and...
    16 KB (691 words) - 12:21, 20 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vico Sotto
    that Sotto had visited protesters who were being forced away from their picket line in front of the main factory of Zagu Foods Corporation in Pasig. He...
    41 KB (3,372 words) - 01:00, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 75-foot patrol boat
    Prohibition, the U.S. Coast Guard had a need for picket boats to help intercept smugglers ferrying alcohol from offshore freighters to the mainland. The Coast Guard...
    10 KB (997 words) - 16:53, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for New England Seamounts
    38°28′1.6″N 64°47′11.6″W / 38.467111°N 64.786556°W / 38.467111; -64.786556 Picket Seamount 39°38′9.9″N 65°58′52.8″W / 39.636083°N 65.981333°W / 39.636083;...
    9 KB (1,243 words) - 11:17, 18 March 2024
  • without Zegler as she had left for the United States to participate in picketing during the strike; Carla Tous later took over the role of Gina Cabot,...
    17 KB (1,304 words) - 03:43, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of active Royal Navy ships
    various support, survey and training roles, replacing previous P1000 Class Picket Boat vessels. This class of vessel also incorporates an autonomous minehunting...
    51 KB (2,471 words) - 13:23, 18 June 2024
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    653 short tons) for modern ships. The largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction. The cranes are fitted to conventional monohulls and barges...
    53 KB (3,802 words) - 03:39, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship's boat
    issued to warships in the decades around 1900 were habitually called "steam picket boats" - so one type of boat had two names. In modern times, some of the...
    14 KB (2,005 words) - 09:12, 15 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Veracruz
    guns: artillery, 2nd and 8th infantry regiments, 3rd Light Regiment, a picket of 11th Regt., Puebla Libres, Orizaba, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Tehuantepec...
    11 KB (1,134 words) - 02:13, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing craft mechanized
    LCMs were converted to lay and repair hoses for tankers equipped with the offshore petroleum discharge system (OPDS). British model of LCM General characteristics...
    11 KB (1,190 words) - 05:42, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amphibious assault ship
    Aviation-capable naval vessels List of amphibious warfare ships Mobile offshore base "Amphibious Assault Ships - LHA/LHD/LHA(R)". United States Navy. Archived...
    17 KB (1,905 words) - 11:13, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salisbury-class frigate
    [page needed] The purpose of the aircraft direction ships was to provide radar picket duties at some distance from a carrier task force and offer interception...
    21 KB (2,405 words) - 00:18, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Texas Towers
    surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in...
    16 KB (1,555 words) - 11:48, 9 February 2024
  • in the miners' strike, saying that "initimidation and even violence by picketing miners has given rise to widespread anxiety". During the Thatcher years...
    16 KB (1,965 words) - 00:37, 22 March 2024
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