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USS Lancewood (AN-48)
USS ''Lancewood'' (AN-48/YN-67) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. In service in the Pacific during the war, she earned one battle star. After her February 1946 decommissioning, she was sold to France as ''Commandant Charcot''. Her fate is not reported in secondary sources. Career ''Lancewood'' (YN-67) was laid down as ''Ironwood'' 15 October 1942 by Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding Company, Stockton, California; renamed ''Lancewood'' 3 April 1943; launched 2 May 1943; and commissioned 18 October 1943. After shakedown off the California coast, ''Lancewood'' was assigned to the 12th Naval District, San Francisco, California. Reclassified ''AN-48'' on 20 January 1944, she tended nets and repaired net lines until departing San Francisco 1 December. Loaded with fleet moorings, she steamed via San Pedro, California, to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived the 16th. ''Lancewood'' sailed for the western Pacific Ocean 24 January 1945. After touching Eniwetok and Guam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironwood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood. Some of the species with their common name * ''Acacia aulacocarpa'' (Brush ironwood) * ''Acacia estrophiolata'' (Southern ironwood), central Australia * ''Acacia excelsa'' (Ironwood) * '' Acacia melanoxylon'' (Ironwood) * ''Acacia stenophylla'' (Ironwood), Australia * ''Aegiphila martinicensis'' (Ironwood) * ''Afzelia africana'' (Ironwood) * ''Androstachys johnsonii'' (Lebombo ironwood), southeastern Africa and Madagascar * ''Allagoptera caudescens'', ''Borassus flabellifer'', '' Caryota urens'', ''Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood (Black ironwood) * ''Argania spinosa'' (Morocco ironwood, Thorny, Prickly ironwood) * ''Astronium fraxinifolium'', ''Astronium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |