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  • 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...
    33 KB (3,455 words) - 00:36, 17 August 2024
  • 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 (2,187 words) - 21:24, 9 August 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...
    64 KB (7,700 words) - 22:39, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brooke rifle
    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
  • Thumbnail for Hulk (ship type)
    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 (1,828 words) - 06:56, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shannon-class lifeboat
    180 degrees, enabling the boat to be launched again within ten minutes. An increasing number of Shannons are kept afloat at moorings or a pontoon berth...
    22 KB (1,192 words) - 21:39, 30 August 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 (1,376 words) - 00:20, 11 August 2024
  • 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 (470 words) - 09:56, 18 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
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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...
    10 KB (1,164 words) - 00:29, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3)
    prior to that) is the first purpose-built expeditionary mobile base vessel (previously classified as a mobile landing platform, and then as an afloat forward...
    29 KB (2,524 words) - 14:05, 12 April 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 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...
    90 KB (10,208 words) - 22:00, 6 September 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) - 13:40, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Strength Through Joy
    Hamburg on 9 March 1945 where the wreckage remained afloat until June 1947, when it was towed to the UK and scrapped. The MV Wilhelm Gustloff, requisitioned...
    34 KB (4,206 words) - 05:20, 28 August 2024
  • The Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Exercise CARAT) is a series of annual bilateral military exercises conducted by the United States Pacific...
    9 KB (911 words) - 09:06, 23 November 2023
  • 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) - 15:27, 27 July 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) - 06:24, 5 March 2024
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