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USS Scamp (SS-277)
USS ''Scamp'' (SS-277), a Gato class submarine, ''Gato''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the scamp grouper, a member of the family Serranidae. Construction and commissioning ''Scamp''′s keel was Keel-laying, laid down on 6 March 1942 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, Kittery, Maine. She was Ship naming and launching, launched on 20 July 1942, sponsored by Miss Katherine Eugenia McKee, and Ship commissioning, commissioned on 18 September 1942. Service history On 19 January 1943, after training from New London, Connecticut, New London, Connecticut, ''Scamp'' set course for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, via the Panama Canal. She arrived in Hawaii on 13 February 1943 and commenced final training in the local operating area. First war patrol ''Scamp'' began her first war patrol by departing Pearl Harbor on 1 March 1943. She stopped at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on 5 March 1943, debarked her passenger, Rear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Scamp (SS-277)
USS ''Scamp'' (SS-277), a Gato class submarine, ''Gato''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the scamp grouper, a member of the family Serranidae. Construction and commissioning ''Scamp''′s keel was Keel-laying, laid down on 6 March 1942 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, Kittery, Maine. She was Ship naming and launching, launched on 20 July 1942, sponsored by Miss Katherine Eugenia McKee, and Ship commissioning, commissioned on 18 September 1942. Service history On 19 January 1943, after training from New London, Connecticut, New London, Connecticut, ''Scamp'' set course for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, via the Panama Canal. She arrived in Hawaii on 13 February 1943 and commenced final training in the local operating area. First war patrol ''Scamp'' began her first war patrol by departing Pearl Harbor on 1 March 1943. She stopped at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on 5 March 1943, debarked her passenger, Rear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship Commissioning
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship in active duty with its country's military forces. The ceremonies involved are often rooted in centuries-old naval tradition. Ship naming and launching endow a ship hull with her identity, but many milestones remain before she is completed and considered ready to be designated a commissioned ship. The engineering plant, weapon and electronic systems, galley, and other equipment required to transform the new hull into an operating and habitable warship are installed and tested. The prospective commanding officer, ship's officers, the petty officers, and seamen who will form the crew report for training and familiarization with their new ship. Before commissioning, the new ship undergoes sea trials to identify any deficiencies needing corre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchant Ship
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from inflatable dive boats in Hawaii, to 5,000-passenger casino vessels on the Mississippi River, to tugboats plying New York Harbor, to oil tankers and container ships at major ports, to passenger-carrying submarines in the Caribbean. Many merchant ships operate under a "flag of convenience" from a country other than the home of the vessel's owners, such as Liberia and Panama, which have more favorable maritime laws than other countries. The Greek merchant marine is the largest in the world. Today, the Greek fleet accounts for some 16 per cent of the world's tonnage; this makes it currently the largest single international merchant fleet in the world, albeit not the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedoe
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially a ''fish''. The term ''torpedo'' originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, ''torpedo'' has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device. While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large ships without the need of large guns, though some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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