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Bureau of Ships

Index Bureau of Ships

The United States Navy's Bureau of Ships (BuShips) was established by Congress on 20 June 1940, by a law which consolidated the functions of the Bureau of Construction and Repair (BuC&R) and the Bureau of Engineering (BuEng). [1]

119 relations: Alaska-class cruiser, Albert Eugene Smith, Albert G. Mumma, Allan Rockwell McCann, Amphibious warfare, Amphibious warfare ship, Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, Balao-class submarine, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Bureau of Steam Engineering, Captain-class frigate, Charles A. Curtze, Charles A. Lockwood, Charles H. Papas, Charles Momsen, Claud Ashton Jones, Cochrane Cup, Colorado-class battleship, Comprehensive Display System, Deep Diver, Disestablished commands of the United States Navy, Edward L. Cochrane, Edwin Albert Link, Engineering duty officer, Essex-class aircraft carrier, FMC Corporation, Francis Birch (geophysicist), Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Grace Hopper, Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program, Harold G. Bowen Sr., Henry A. Schade, HMS Redmill (K554), Homer N. Wallin, Huckins Yacht Corporation, HY-80, Hyman G. Rickover, Independence-class aircraft carrier, John Niedermair, John P. Cromwell, John T. Koehler, Johnson Sea Link accident, Joseph Weber, Landing craft, Landing Ship, Tank, List of military electronics of the United States, Lloyd A. Jeffress, Mobile Riverine Force, Morrough Parker O'Brien, Nathan Sonenshein, ..., Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Naval Reactors, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Naval Vessel Register, Navy oceanographic meteorological automatic device, Nelson M. Cooke, North Carolina-class battleship, Nuclear navy, Nuclear submarine, Operation Sailor Hat, Project Hula, Ralph K. James, Robert Dexter Conrad, Roll-on/roll-off, Ryland Dillard Tisdale, S-50 (Manhattan Project), Samuel Murray Robinson, Sims-class destroyer, Special treatment steel, Spring Styles books (U.S. Navy), Tench-class submarine, Thorvald A. Solberg, United States Navy bureau system, United States Navy systems commands, United States S-class submarine, USS Abingdon (PC-1237), USS Affray (MSO-511), USS Alaska (CB-1), USS Anderson (DD-411), USS Annapolis (AGMR-1), USS APc-25, USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Auk (AM-38), USS Bluebird (AMS-121), USS Boise (CL-47), USS Bold (AM-424), USS Callao (IX-205), USS Carmick (DD-493), USS Dominant (AM-431), USS Forrest Royal (DD-872), USS Galaxy (IX-54), USS Gallup (PF-47), USS Harjurand (ARS-31), USS Minah (AMc-204), USS Relief (ID-2170), USS Richland (AK-207), USS Salvager (ARS(D)-3), USS Saturn (AK-49), USS Seadragon (SS-194), USS Shubrick (DD-639), USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Tringa (ASR-16), USS Triton (SSRN-586), USS Trout (SS-566), USS Viking (ARS-1), USS Wake Island, USS Washington (BB-56), USS Widgeon (AM-22), USS Wren (DD-568), USS Yazoo (AN-92), Vannevar Bush, Walter S. Huxford, William A. Brockett, William E. Verge, William Francis Petrovic, William H. G. Bullard, William Harrington Leahy, World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States Navy. Expand index (69 more) »

Alaska-class cruiser

The Alaska class was a class of six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy.

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Albert Eugene Smith

Albert Eugene (Gene) Smith (1907-1973) was a computing pioneer who worked for the U.S. Navy following World War II.

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Albert G. Mumma

Albert G. Mumma (2 June 1906 – 15 July 1997) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who played a pivotal role in the development of nuclear propulsion for warships.

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Allan Rockwell McCann

Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann, (September 20, 1896 – February 22, 1978) was a United States Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II.

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Amphibious warfare

Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.

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Amphibious warfare ship

An amphibious warfare ship (or amphib) is an amphibious vehicle warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault.

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Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

The United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare — calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction.

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Balao-class submarine

The Balao class was a successful design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 120 units completed, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy.

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Bureau of Construction and Repair

The Bureau of Construction and Repair (BuC&R) was the part of the United States Navy which from 1862 to 1940 was responsible for supervising the design, construction, conversion, procurement, maintenance, and repair of ships and other craft for the Navy.

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Bureau of Steam Engineering

The Bureau of Steam Engineering was a bureau of the United States Navy, created by the act of 5 July 1862, receiving some of the duties of the former Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repair.

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Captain-class frigate

The Captain class was the designation given to 78 frigates of the Royal Navy, constructed in the United States of America, launched in 1942–1943 and delivered to the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Lend-Lease agreement (under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945).

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Charles A. Curtze

Charles A. Curtze (April 8, 1911 – December 26, 2007) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.

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Charles A. Lockwood

Charles Andrews Lockwood (May 6, 1890 – June 7, 1967) was a vice-admiral and flag officer of the United States Navy.

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Charles H. Papas

Charles Herach Papas (March 29, 1918 – July 8, 2007) was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer, known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory, microwaves, radiophysics, gravitational electromagnetics, astrophysics, guided waves, and remote sensing.

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Charles Momsen

Charles Bowers Momsen (June 21, 1896 – May 25, 1967), nicknamed "Swede", was born in Flushing, New York.

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Claud Ashton Jones

Claud Ashton Jones (October 7, 1885 – August 8, 1948) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and a Medal of Honor recipient.

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Cochrane Cup

The Cochrane Cup has been competed for since 1961 by the Men's Varsity Eight rowing teams of Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Wisconsin.

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Colorado-class battleship

The Colorado-class battleships were a group of four battleships built by the United States Navy after World War I. However, only three of the ships were completed:,, and.

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Comprehensive Display System

The Comprehensive Display System (CDS) was a command, control, and coordination system of the British Royal Navy (RN) that worked with the detection/search Type 984 radar.

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Deep Diver

Deep Diver was the name of a deep-sea scientific research submersible built by Edwin Albert Link.

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Disestablished commands of the United States Navy

Disestablished commands of the United States Navy are major operational or administrative units which have since been disbanded or disestablished by the United States Navy.

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Edward L. Cochrane

Vice Admiral Edward Lull "Ned" Cochrane (March 18, 1892 – November 14, 1959) was a United States Navy officer and naval architect who served as Chief of the Bureau of Ships during World War II.

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Edwin Albert Link

Edwin Albert Link (July 26, 1904 – September 7, 1981) was a pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles.

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Engineering duty officer

An engineering duty officer (EDO) is a restricted line officer in the United States Navy, involved with the design, acquisition, construction, repair, maintenance, conversion, overhaul and disposal of ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, and the systems installed aboard (weapons, command and control, communications, computers).

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Essex-class aircraft carrier

The Essex class was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy that constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships.

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FMC Corporation

FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Francis Birch (geophysicist)

Francis Birch (August 22, 1903 – January 30, 1992) was an American geophysicist.

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Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (popularly known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering) is the engineering and applied science school of Columbia University.

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Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.

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Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program

The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines.

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Harold G. Bowen Sr.

Harold Gardiner Bowen Sr. (6 November 1883 – 1 August 1965) was a United States Navy Vice admiral, former head of the Office of Naval Research and a mechanical engineer.

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Henry A. Schade

Henry Adrian "Packy" Schade (December 3, 1900 – August 12, 1992) was a United States Navy officer, naval architect, and professor.

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HMS Redmill (K554)

The second HMS Redmill (K554), and first ship to see service under the name, was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II.

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Homer N. Wallin

Homer Norman Wallin (December 6, 1893 – March 6, 1984) was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Huckins Yacht Corporation

Huckins Yacht Corporation is one of the oldest boat builders in the United States.

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HY-80

HY-80 is a high-tensile, high yield strength, low alloy steel.

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Hyman G. Rickover

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986), U.S. Navy, directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of Naval Reactors.

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Independence-class aircraft carrier

The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II.

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John Niedermair

John Charles Niedermair (18931982) was an American Naval architect whom the U.S. Naval Institute reports as being 'Among the most noted U.S. naval architects of century' and whom the American Society of Naval Engineers note as 'the father of today's modern United States Navy ships'.

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John P. Cromwell

Captain John Philip Cromwell (September 11, 1901 – November 19, 1943) was the most senior submariner awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and one of the three submarine officers who received it posthumously.

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John T. Koehler

John T. Koehler (March 14, 1904 – September 23, 1989) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1949 to 1951.

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Johnson Sea Link accident

The Johnson Sea Link accident was a June 1973 incident that claimed the lives of two divers.

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Joseph Weber

Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist.

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Landing craft

Landing craft are small and medium seagoing vessels such as boats, and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.

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Landing Ship, Tank

Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships built during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore with no docks or piers.

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List of military electronics of the United States

This page lists types of American military electronic instruments along with brief descriptions of them.

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Lloyd A. Jeffress

Lloyd Alexander Jeffress (November 15, 1900 – April 2, 1986) was an acoustical scientist, a professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, a developer of mine-hunting models for the US Navy during World War II and after, and the man Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling credited with getting him interested in chemistry.

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Mobile Riverine Force

In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the Brown Water Navy.

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Morrough Parker O'Brien

Morrough "Mike" Parker O'Brien, Jr. (September 21, 1902 – July 28, 1988) was an American hydraulic engineering professor and is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering.

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Nathan Sonenshein

Nathan Sonenshein (August 2, 1915 – April 13, 2001) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.

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Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, the Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, the, took place from 12–15 November 1942, and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily American) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal Campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

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Naval Reactors

Naval Reactors (NR) is an umbrella term for the U.S. government office that has comprehensive responsibility for safe and reliable operation of the United States Navy's nuclear propulsion program.

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Naval Sea Systems Command

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel (not to be confused with "material") organizations.

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Naval Undersea Warfare Center

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare.

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Naval Vessel Register

The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy.

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Navy oceanographic meteorological automatic device

The Navy oceanographic meteorological automatic device (NOMAD) is an anchored automated weather station developed shortly after World War II and still used today.

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Nelson M. Cooke

Nelson Magor Cooke (28 November 190330 November 1965) was a leader in developing electronic schools of the United States Navy, the recipient of the Navy Commendation Medal and Medal for Humane Action, a post-war engineering entrepreneur, and an author of books on applied mathematics and basic electronics.

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North Carolina-class battleship

The North Carolina class was a class of two fast battleships, and, built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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Nuclear navy

Nuclear navy, or nuclear-powered navy consists of naval ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as naval reactors.

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Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor.

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Operation Sailor Hat

Operation Sailor Hat was a series of explosives effects tests, conducted by the United States Navy Bureau of Ships under the sponsorship of the Defense Atomic Support Agency.

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Project Hula

Project Hula was a program of World War II in which the United States transferred naval vessels to the Soviet Union in anticipation of the Soviets eventually joining the war against Japan, specifically in preparation for planned Soviet invasions of southern Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

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Ralph K. James

Ralph Kirk James (21 May 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Captain in the United States Navy during World War II.

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Robert Dexter Conrad

Robert Dexter Conrad, born on 20 March 1905 in Orange, Massachusetts, graduated from the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned ensign in June 1927.

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Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.

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Ryland Dillard Tisdale

Commander Ryland Dillard Tisdale (November 15, 1894 – May 23, 1942) was an American naval officer who served during both World Wars I and II.

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S-50 (Manhattan Project)

The S-50 Project was the Manhattan Project's effort to produce enriched uranium by liquid thermal diffusion during World War II.

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Samuel Murray Robinson

Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson (August 13, 1882 – November 11, 1972) was a United States Navy four-star admiral who directed Navy procurement during World War II.

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Sims-class destroyer

The Sims class destroyers were built for the United States Navy, and commissioned in 1939 and 1940.

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Special treatment steel

Special Treatment Steel (STS), also known as Protective Deck Plate, was originally developed by Carnegie Steel around 1910.

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Spring Styles books (U.S. Navy)

The "Spring Styles" books were a series of project books maintained by the United States Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) and contained plans of potential warship designs for Navy leadership.

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Tench-class submarine

Tench-class submarines were a type of submarine built for the United States Navy (USN) between 1944 and 1951.

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Thorvald A. Solberg

Rear Admiral Thorvald A. Solberg (17 February 1894 – 16 May 1964) was a senior officer in the United States Navy, and the Chief of the Office of Naval Research from 1948 to 1951.

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United States Navy bureau system

The "bureau system" of the United States Navy was the Department of the Navy's material-support organization from 1842 through 1966.

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United States Navy systems commands

The systems commands, abbreviated as SysCom or SYSCOM, are the materiel agencies of the United States Department of the Navy, responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of military systems such as ships, aircraft, and weapons.

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United States S-class submarine

The United States' S-class submarines, often simply called S-boats (sometimes "Sugar" boats, after the then contemporary Navy phonetic alphabet for "S"), were the first class of submarines with a significant number built to United States Navy designs.

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USS Abingdon (PC-1237)

PC-1237 was a in the service of the United States Navy.

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USS Affray (MSO-511)

USS Affray (AM-511/MSO-511) was an ''Acme''-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.

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USS Alaska (CB-1)

USS Alaska (CB-1) was the lead ship of the of large cruisers which served with the United States Navy during the end of World War II.

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USS Anderson (DD-411)

USS Anderson (DD-411) was a in the United States Navy.

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USS Annapolis (AGMR-1)

USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) was the former (ex-Sunset Bay) and a of the United States Navy.

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USS APc-25

USS APc-25 was a United States Navy APc-1 class coastal transport vessel.

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USS Arizona (BB-39)

USS Arizona was a built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s.

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USS Auk (AM-38)

USS Auk (AM-38) was an ''Lapwing''-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy after World War I for the task of removing mines that had been placed during the war.

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USS Bluebird (AMS-121)

USS Bluebird (AMS/MSC-121) was a acquired by the US Navy for clearing minefields in coastal waterways.

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USS Boise (CL-47)

USS Boise (CL-47) was a light cruiser of the in the United States Navy.

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USS Bold (AM-424)

USS Bold (AM-424) was an ''Aggressive''-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of clearing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.

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USS Callao (IX-205)

USS Callao (IX-205), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Callao, a seaport in Peru.

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USS Carmick (DD-493)

USS Carmick (DD-493/DMS-33), a, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Major Daniel Carmick (1772–1816), an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served during the Quasi-War with France and during the War of 1812.

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USS Dominant (AM-431)

USS Dominant (MSO-431) was an built for the United States Navy.

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USS Forrest Royal (DD-872)

USS Forrest Royal (DD-872) was a United States Navy constructed following the end of World War II.

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USS Galaxy (IX-54)

USS Galaxy (IX-54), was a diesel motor yacht built in 1930 by Pusey and Jones Company, in Wilmington, Delaware for Mr.

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USS Gallup (PF-47)

The second USS Gallup (PF-47), a in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gallup, New Mexico.

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USS Harjurand (ARS-31)

USS Harjurand (ARS-31) was a rescue and salvage ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II.

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USS Minah (AMc-204)

USS PCS-1465 was a built for the United States Navy during World War II.

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USS Relief (ID-2170)

The fourth USS Relief (ID-2170) was a salvage tug that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.

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USS Richland (AK-207)

USS Richland (AK-207) was an that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II.

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USS Salvager (ARS(D)-3)

USS Salvager (ARS(D)-3), a Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessel of the United States Navy, was originally conceived as LSM-551, was reclassified ARS(D)-3 on 24 April 1945; named Salvager on 1 May 1945; laid down on 27 August 1945 by the Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 22 March 1946, Lieutenant Commander Howard L. Kubel, USNR, in command.

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USS Saturn (AK-49)

USS Saturn (AK-49) was a German cargo ship, built in 1939 as ES Arauca.

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USS Seadragon (SS-194)

USS Seadragon (SS-194), a ''Sargo''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seadragon.

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USS Shubrick (DD-639)

USS Shubrick (DD-639), a, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral William B. Shubrick.

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USS South Dakota (BB-57)

USS South Dakota (BB-57) was a battleship in the United States Navy, in active service from 1942 until 1947.

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USS Tringa (ASR-16)

USS Tringa (ASR-16) was a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship of the United States Navy.

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USS Triton (SSRN-586)

USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), a United States Navy radar picket nuclear submarine, was the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth (Operation Sandblast), doing so in early 1960.

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USS Trout (SS-566)

USS Trout (SS-566), a, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the trout fish.

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USS Viking (ARS-1)

USS Flamingo (AM-32) was a built for the United States Navy near the end of World War I. After service overseas clearing mines after the Armistice, the ship was laid up until 1922 when she was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce for use by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

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USS Wake Island

USS Wake Island (CVE-65) was an ''Casablanca'' class escort carrier of the United States Navy.

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USS Washington (BB-56)

USS Washington (BB-56), the second of two battleships in the, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 42nd state.

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USS Widgeon (AM-22)

USS Widgeon (AM-22/ASR-1) was an acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

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USS Wren (DD-568)

USS Wren (DD-568) was a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Sergeant Solomon Wren, USMC, who took part in Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's raid into Tripoli harbor during the First Barbary War.

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USS Yazoo (AN-92)

USS Yazoo (YN-121/AN-92) was a which was assigned to protect United States Navy ships and harbors during World War II with her anti-submarine nets.

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.

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Walter S. Huxford

Walter Scott Huxford was a professor of physics at Northwestern University and was a co-inventor of the sunburnometer.

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William A. Brockett

Rear Admiral William A. Brockett (born 22 February 1914 in Illinois) raised in Litchfield and New London, Connecticut.

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William E. Verge

William Ernest Verge (January 31, 1901 – August 10, 1973) was an officer in the United States Navy.

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William Francis Petrovic

Rear Admiral William Francis Petrovic (January 12, 1913 – June 25, 1991) was a preeminent naval engineer and ship builder in the United States Navy, serving from 1935 to 1972.

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William H. G. Bullard

William Hannum Grubb Bullard (6 December 1866 – 24 November 1927) was an admiral of the United States Navy, whose service included duty during the Spanish–American War and World War I. After World War I, he established the Navy's patrol on China's Yangtze River.

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William Harrington Leahy

William Harrington Leahy (October 27, 1904 – May 12, 1986) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.

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World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States Navy

In 1935, the United States Navy Naval Research Laboratory began studies and tests on low visibility ship camouflage.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Ships

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