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Rear Admiral Albert Barker, Commandant of the New York Navy Yard, urged the formation of a navy league "to enlighten people ... on naval matters and tell them what a navy means to the country and what it ought to mean to them." In 1902, the Navy League was launched, with the enthus...
This is the first time for the ship "Ark Peace" to visit the Southeast Asian island country, and the second time for Chinese naval vessels. Guided by Timor-Leste's naval ships, this huge movable hospital with 300-beds and over 14,000 tonnage slowly sailed into the Dili Port. Local peopl...
(respectively) the United States, Great Britain, and Japan on the number and total tonnage of capital (big-gun) ships that eachcountrycould possess. When the big powers resumed their naval disarmament talks at theLondon Naval Conferenceof 1930, Nagano attended as a member of the Japanesegeneral...
China’s dock landing ship Kunlun Mountain with a huge tonnage, it has unmatched by conventional landing craft ship in space and life, which can play important role in oversee in disaster relief. For many years, the updating of the Chinese military equipment is considered as the synonym of co...
“cruiser” because of its tonnage and speed, making it more a conventional coastal defense ship. Besides, apart from a few high-seas torpedo boats, Denmark did not have a single destroyer or oceanic submarine. This pure coastal defence force was completed by civilian-converted guard patrol ...
The PLA Navy's weaponry and equipment development has come a long way. In the early days of the establishment of the navy, the total tonnage of its vessels was just a few thousand tonnes, which was less than a single destroyer in the navy of a major power. ...
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The government paid 'tonnage bounties' to private owners for the construction of 'defensible' ships of 100 tons or more and grants were given for just over 500 ships between 1560 and 1610. Known by a variety of names depending on their size, from 'pinnaces' and 'barks' to 'galleons; ...
Reports of poor conditions are substantiated by Western observers after visiting Soviet ships. Soviet ships are much more heavily armed than Western units of similar tonnage, and that has to be accomplished at the expense of the crew's comfort....