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USS Nicholson (DD-982)
} USS ''Nicholson'' (DD-982), a ''Spruance''-class destroyer, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for a family which was prominent in early American naval history, including James Nicholson, the senior Continental Navy Captain, and Samuel Nicholson, the first captain of USS ''Constitution''. History ''Nicholson'' was laid down on 20 February 1976 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 11 November 1977; and commissioned on 12 May 1979. She first deployed on 18 November 1980. Nicholson deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1983 and returned to Charleston SC via the Suez Canal with a refueling stop in Djibouti. The crew enjoyed a port visit to Barcelona, Spain on the way back to home port. The ship encountered heavy seas on the voyage west across the Atlantic and experienced a casualty to the sonar dome. The dome was subsequently repaired in conjunction with a scheduled maintenance period at the Brooklyn Navy Shipyard between May 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Pascagoula ( ) is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi–Pascagoula Combined Statistical Area. The population was 22,392 at the 2010 census, down from 26,200 at the 2000 census. As of 2019 the estimated population was 21,699. It is the county seat of Jackson County. The city is served by three airports: Mobile Regional Airport, to the northeast in Alabama; Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, about west of Pascagoula; and the Trent Lott International Airport, to the north in Jackson County. The current mayor of the city is Jay Willis. History Early history The name ''Pascagoula'', which means "bread eater", is taken from the Pascagoula, a group of Native Americans found in villages along the Pascagoula River some distance above its mouth. Hernando de Soto seems to have made the first contact with them in the 1540s, though little is known o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Frigate Niedersachsen (F208)
''Niedersachsen'' was a Bremen-class frigate, ''Bremen''-class frigate of the German Navy. She was the second ship of the class, and the second surface warship to serve with one of the navies of Germany to be named after the state of Lower Saxony, german: Niedersachsen. Her predecessor was the minelayer of the ''Kriegsmarine''. The frigate entered service with the ''Bundesmarine'' in 1982, serving for 32 years until being decommissioned in 2015. Construction and commissioning ''Niedersachsen'' was laid down in November 1979 at the yards of AG Weser, Bremen and launched on 9 June 1980. After undergoing sea trial, trials ''Niedersachsen'' was commissioned on 15 October 1982. During her later career she was based at Wilhelmshaven as part of ''4. Fregattengeschwader'', forming a component of ''Einsatzflottille 2''. Her sponsor was Adele Albrecht, wife of the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930), Ernst Albrecht. Service ''Niedersachsen'' partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HDMS Olfert Fischer (F355)
HDMS ''Olfert Fischer'' (F355) was a of the ''Kongelige Danske Marine'' (Royal Danish Navy, KDM). The vessel was laid down in December 1978 and commissioned in October 1981. The corvette operated in the Persian Gulf on two occasions, first in 1990 and 1991 as part of the multinational fleet enforcing the United Nations sanctions against Iraq, then again in 2003 in support of the United States-led invasion of Iraq. ''Olfert Fischer'' was deployed as part of the NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic (and its successor, the Standing NATO Response Force Maritime Group 1) on at least four occasions during her career. ''Olfert Fischer'' and her two sister ships were decommissioned in August 2009 and scrapped in 2013. They were replaced by vessels of the . Design The corvettes were fitted with an Otobreda 76 mm main gun, two quad RGM-84C Harpoon surface-to-surface missile (SSM) launchers, a Mod 3 VLS Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile (SAM) launcher carrying 12 missiles, two FIM-92A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNLMS Bloys Van Treslong (F824)
HNLMS ''Bloys van Treslong'' (F824) ( nl, Hr.Ms. Bloys van Treslong) was a frigate of the . The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1982 to 2003. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Willem Bloys van Treslong. The ship's radio call sign was "PADG". Dutch service history HNLMS ''Bloys van Treslong'' was built at Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam. The keel laying took place on 5 May 1978 and the launching on 15 November 1980. The ship was put into service on 25 November 1982. In 1993, the ship served as station ship in the West Indies. In this period, she was sent to Haiti in support of the United Nations peace mission Support Democracy. In 1996, she made a trip to Norway with the frigates , , and the replenishment ship . In 2003, the vessel was decommissioned and sold to the Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy (HN; el, Πολεμικό Ναυτικό, Polemikó Naftikó, War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNLMS Jacob Van Heemskerck (F812)
HNLMS ''Jacob van Heemskerck'' (F812) ( nl, Hr.Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck) was a frigate of the . The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1986 to 2004. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Jacob van Heemskerck. The ship's radio call sign was "PAVO". Dutch service history HNLMS ''Jacob van Heemskerck'' was one of two s and was built at the KM de Schelde in Vlissingen. The keel laying took place on 21 January 1981 and the launching Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition in many cultures, dating back thousands of years, to accompany the physical pro ... on 5 November 1983. The ship was put into service on 15 January 1986. In the early 90s the ship participated in Operation Desert Storm. In 1996 she made a trip to Norway with the frigates , , and the replenishment ship . After the September 11 attacks the ship became par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRP Vasco Da Gama (F330)
NRP ''Vasco da Gama'' is a Portuguese frigate of the operated by the Portuguese Navy. She was laid down by Blohm + Voss on 2 February 1989, launched on 26 June 1989, and commissioned on 18 January 1991. Service history In 1995, ''Vasco de Gama'' spent five months deployed in the Adriatic Sea as part of Operation Sharp Guard, enforcing economic sanctions and an arms embargo against the former Yugoslavia, with the frigate inspecting 91 merchant ships during the deployment. In July 1998, she was deployed off Guinea-Bissau to rescue Portuguese and other European citizens threatened by the Guinea-Bissau Civil War. ''Vasco da Gama'' was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET The International Force East Timor (INTERFET) was a multinational non-United Nations peacemaking task force, organised and led by Australia in accordance with United Nations resolutions to address the humanitarian and security crisis that took ... peacekeeping taskforce from 16 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Skeena (DDH 207)
HMCS ''Skeena'' was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957–1993. ''Skeena'' was constructed as a destroyer escort and was converted in the 1960s to a helicopter-carrying destroyer. In 1972, the ship was designated a French Language Unit, the second in Canadian service.Hadley et al., p. 319 Discarded in 1994, the ship was Ship breaking, broken up in India. Design and description The need for the ''St. Laurent'' class came about in 1949 when Canada joined NATO and the Cold War was in its infancy. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was assigned responsibility for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and controlling sea space in the western Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. The ''St Laurent'' class were built to an operational requirement much like that which produced the British Type 12, and were powered by the same machinery plant. The rounded deck-edge forward was adopted to prevent ice forming.Friedman, p. 161 The vessels were designed to operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNoMS Oslo (F300)
HNoMS ''Oslo'' (pennant number F300) was an of the Royal Norwegian Navy. The frigate was launched on 17 January 1964, and commissioned on 29 January 1968. ''Oslo'' ran aground near Marstein Island on 24 January 1994. One officer was killed in the incident. The next day, on 25 January, she was taken under tow. However as the situation deteriorated, the tow was let go and the frigate sank. Design and description The ''Oslo'' class was based on the American s with modifications for northern sea conditions, including more freeboard forward. ''Oslo'' was long between perpendiculars and long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The ship had a standard displacement of and was at full load. The frigate was powered by one set of STAL- de Laval PN20 double reduction geared turbines driving one shaft powered by steam provided by two Babcock & Wilcox boilers, rated at . The ship had a maximum speed of and a range of at . ''Oslo'' was initially armed with four /50 calibre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (, ; french: link=no, Terre-Neuve, ; ) is a large island off the east coast of the North American mainland and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has 29 percent of the province's land area. The island is separated from the Labrador Peninsula by the Strait of Belle Isle and from Cape Breton Island by the Cabot Strait. It blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary. Newfoundland's nearest neighbour is the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. With an area of , Newfoundland is the world's 16th-largest island, Canada's fourth-largest island, and the largest Canadian island outside the North. The provincial capital, St. John's, is located on the southeastern coast of the island; Cape Spear, just south of the capital, is the easternmost point of North America, excluding Greenland. It is common to consider all directly neighbouring i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical NameWorking Paper No. 61, 23rd Session, Vienna, 28 March – 4 April 2006. accessed October 9, 2010 It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian Gulf has many fishing grounds, extensive reefs (mostly rocky, but also Coral reef, coral), and abundant pearl oysters, however its ecology has been damaged by industrialization and oil spills. The Persian Gulf is in the Persian Gulf Basin, which is of Cenozoic origin and related to the subduction of the Arabian Plate u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Dahlgren (DDG-43)
USS ''Dahlgren'' (DLG-12/DDG-43) was the 7th ship in the guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was launched on 16 March 1960 by Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and sponsored by Mrs. Katharine D. Cromwell, granddaughter of Rear Admiral John Adolphus Dahlgren. She was commissioned on 8 April 1961. She was the third ship in the Navy to bear the name. Commissioned as DLG-12, ''Dahlgren'' was reclassified a guided missile destroyer on July 1, 1975 and given the new hull number DDG-43. The ship saw service until 1992, when she was placed in reserve. She was sold for scrapping three times, the first time in 1994, but was repossessed twice as the ship breaking companies failed. The ship was finally dismantled in 2006. Fate ''Dahlgren'' was decommissioned 31 July 1992 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992. ''Dahlgren'' was transferred to the James River Reserve Fleet on 1 July 1993. ''Dahlgren'' was sold to N.R. Acquisition, New York, New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
