During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me. He was a very brilliant boy, and carried away every prize which the school had to offer, finishing his exploits by win...
“We undertook a study a couple of years ago, knowing that all but one of our ships will be replaced in the next decade. And then just how do we get after the problem set that we’ve got with nine ships, six different classes of ships, and the problems...
The navy’s development of VTOL UAS capability includes assessing two other classes of UAS, Cdr Ghezzi explained. The first is for a UAS weighing 50-100 kg and able to bring ISR and electro-optical (EO) capability; the second is for a lighter UAS weighing up to 12 kg and giving five...
You're known to take on deep-sea dives nobody else will even dare to attempt. By sheer luck, somebody B uilding W ealth · 83 finds a sunken treasure ship off the coast they can't get to. Well, their luck just became your luck, because they're going to come to you to...
Two chairs faced the desk and behind it was a credenza with two flag poles and two pictures of the president and a (unspecified) naval ship on the wall. The room had no windows, but also (curiously) had no phone either. You would think that everything on a (what we now...
ship size pose problems in the design ofterminalsand offshore loading and discharge facilities. In addition, the necessity of transitinglocksandcanalsplaces an upper limit on the size of some ships. The Panamax and Suezmax classes oftankerhave been devised with the specific dimensions of thePanama...
he found his troops withoutammunitionand arranged for a ship of theRhode Islandnavy to sail to Bermuda for powder. Soon afterward Washington fitted out seven small vessels, part of arudimentarynavy that was gradually forming, and manned them with seagoing troops in order to interfere with British...