Naval ship

A naval ship is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated from civilian ships by construction and purpose. Generally, naval ships are damage resilient and armed with weapon systems, though armament on troop transports is light or non-existent.

Naval ships designed primarily for naval warfare are termed warships, as opposed to support (auxiliary ships) or shipyard operations.

Naval ship classification

Naval ship classification is a field that has changed over time, and is not an area of wide international agreement, so this article currently uses the system as currently used by the United States Navy.

Aircraft carrier – ships that serve as mobile seaborne airfields, designed primarily for the purpose of conducting combat operations by Carrier-based aircraft which engage in attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface and shore targets.

Surface combatant – large, heavily armed surface ships which are designed primarily to engage enemy forces on the high seas, including various types of battleship, battlecruiser, cruiser, destroyer, and frigate.

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New aircraft carrier to be named after first Black American that received Navy's Cross for valor

The Hill 19 Jan 2020

On Martin Luther King Day, the Navy will name its new $12.5 ... The Navy Cross for valor is the second-highest distinction awarded by the U.S ... According to the Navy, as of December, 14 ships had been named for African Americans, including destroyers and a ballistic missile submarine....

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Navy to name aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor hero Miller

Federal News Radio 19 Jan 2020

Navy is expected to honor a World War II hero when a new aircraft carrier is named for Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller ... Browning anti-aircraft machine gun until he ran out of ammunition and was ordered to abandon ship,” the Navy said, noting Miller was not trained to operate the gun....

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Navy to name aircraft carrier after black Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller

WPXI 19 Jan 2020

Navy is expected to honor him Monday in Hawaii ... Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross ... Navy (@USNavy) January 19, 2020 ... With no prior training, Miller operated “a .50-caliber Browning antiaircraft machine gun until he ran out of ammunition and was ordered to abandon ship,” according to the Navy....

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Strange history of stuff that's washed up on the Outer Banks

Reflector 19 Jan 2020

Ships have struck the shoals off the coast for centuries, giving the area the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic ... In 2008, a November storm exposed the timbers of a ship from the 1600s, possibly the oldest of all the roughly 5,000 known wrecks along the Outer Banks ... They discovered later that the disks had come from a Navy ship....

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The Navy Has Built Too Many Aircraft Carriers For Its Own Good

Yahoo Daily News 19 Jan 2020

In fact, Mitchell sank a captured German battleship, the Ostfriesland, in an aerial demonstration back in 1921, but the Navy said that the test proved nothing ... The aircraft carrier decisively replaced the battleship as the Navy’s sea control capital ship, but its reign in that capacity was, in reality, quite brief....

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Fred Orlowske: US, Russia relationship is perplexing

Winona Daily News 19 Jan 2020

Also, Russia’s navy has emboldened itself by dangerously trailing a U.S. warship in the North Arabian Sea. Other provocative occurrences such as a Russian spy ship lurking off our Eastern Seaboard and numerous dangerous flybys over U.S. Navy ships ... They are rebuilding their military with new ships, missiles, submarines and aircraft ... interests ... × ... ....

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Not USS General Sherman

Korea Times 19 Jan 2020

My colleague at BYU, Kirk Larsen, recently made a presentation on the destruction of the ship, the General Sherman, delivered at a conference co-sponsored by the University of Utah and Seoul National University ... Larsen makes is about the name of the ship ... The USS indicates "United States Ship" meaning a part of the U.S. Navy, a warship....

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Local veteran and friends pay tribute to 'heroes' of Flight 93

Courier Express 19 Jan 2020

These words written by Tim Kane of Minnesota express the sentiment of a group of Navy buddies ... 11, 2001 ... Navy ... as part of the crew aboard a brand new Navy ship, the USS Jouett DLG-29, where he served as a sonar technician until his discharge in October 1968. “I really enjoyed the fellowships and friendships that I made on that ship,” George said ... .......

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Nimitz at sea: For warship, a tight fit into and out of Puget Sound

Kitsap Sun 19 Jan 2020

Fitting the nearly 1,100 foot-long ship through Rich Passage is a challenge Navy navigators have been performing for more than three decades .......

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Despite proposed cuts, Pingree ‘confident’ Bath shipyard will fulfill contracts

The Brunswick Times Record 19 Jan 2020

Department of Defense recommended reducing the number of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built for the Navy between 2021 and 2025 from 12 ships to seven ... ....

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Museum Of American Revolution In Philly Holding Special Martin Luther King Jr. Events Throughout Holiday Weekend

CBS Sports 19 Jan 2020

on Sunday and Monday, a history lesson on James Forten, a free African-American man who volunteered aboard a ship to fight the British Navy when he was just 14 ......

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Richard Milroy Hamblin

Cedar Rapids Gazette 19 Jan 2020

RICHARD MILROY HAMBLIN Cedar Rapids Richard Milroy Hamblin, 93, of Cedar Rapids, passed away on Tuesday, Jan ... Navy and served in the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946. He served on the USS Caliente, which refueled ships during the war and other nations' ships after the war so they could return their POWs and other remaining troops ... 1, 1947 ... ....

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Breaking down barriers

The Citizens 19 Jan 2020

Brown read everything he could get his hands on about aviation and had a deep desire to fly Navy aircraft ... The USS Leyte with the Navy’s first African-American pilot, Jesse Brown, arrives “on station” around Oct ... Brown, was christened by the Navy on March 18, 1972. It was the first Navy ship to be named after an African-American....