While there is a hospital as a building of the Marine Self Defense Force, there are Escort Flotilla ( Destroyers ), Submarine Flotilla and the Training Squadron in the Kure District.

At least 25 Atlantic Convoy Escort Command Destroyers had been recalled to the U. S. East Coast at the time of the first attacks, including seven at anchor in New York Harbor.

The Pinto would be later complemented by the German built, smaller front-wheel-drive Ford Fiesta, and formally replaced by the Escort for the 1981 model year.

* Smith & Wesson Model 61 — Debuting in 1970, the pocket ' Escort ' was a tiny automatic. 22LR pistol, designed to be cheap and easily concealable.

Its influence can be judged from the fact that Ford adopted a very similar look for its Mk II RS2000 Escort and the 1982 Ford Sierra, which in turn were widely copied throughout the 1980s by others.

Towards the end of the 1980s due to tightening emission standards, the Pinto engine began to be phased out-the 1. 8 in 1988 replaced by a 1. 8 CVH, the 2. 0 in 1989, replaced with the Ford I4 DOHC engine and the 1. 6 in 1992, replaced by the 1. 6 CVH first seen in the Escort in 1980, described as a " CFi ", a single point fuel injection system with a catalytic converter. The 2. 9 L Cologne engine was available in the Sierra XR4x4 and the Sierra Ghia.

The Laser was the basis of later Escort models sold in North America, which is not to be confused with the model of the same name sold in Europe.

15 ( 1995 ), Escort had a distinctive ' cut-out ' cover, which folded out into a poster ; this ' cut-out ' design allowed a few smaller pictures on the contents page to be visible, thus giving a sneak preview of other women posing in the magazine ; one of these smaller pictures was usually that from the magazine's regular ' Girls of ...' feature showing women posing at various locations of that issue's chosen town.

Following the introduction of the MKIII Escort in 1980, Ford Motorsport set about development of rear-wheel-drive, turbocharged variant of the vehicle that could be entered into competition in Group B rally racing, and dubbed the new vehicle the Escort RS 1700T.

The 1. 3 L was also planned for the North American version of the Escort, but engineering tests found it to be unacceptably underpowered, and plans to produce 1. 3 L engines were scrapped just a few months before full-scale production.

This paddock was known as Escort Paddock and the remains of an old stone building is still to be seen there.

Despite Ford's initial misgivings about the styling, Sierra went on to be the second best-selling car in Europe, second only to Ford's own Escort.

The Mk2 did exactly what Ford wanted, it was far more reliable whilst still quick enough to be used in competition, until it was replaced by the Escort Twin Cam.

Whilst the Lotus-Cortina is somewhat overshadowed by the success of the Ford Escort in rallying, it performed admirably in the mid-1960s, which might be surprising, given its reputation for unreliability.

The CHT ( Compound High Turbulence ) engine was introduced by Ford in 1984 in the Mark 3 version of the Ford Escort, the first of the series to be released in Brazil.

The Tempo would be based on a stretched version of the front-wheel-drive Ford CE14 platform used on the Ford Escort, but with a radical new body.

Even though the Fairmont ( at 105. 5-inch wheelbase and 193. 8-inch length ) was sized much larger than General Motors ' front-wheel drive Chevrolet Celebrity mid-size car ( at 104. 8-inch wheelbase and 188. 3-inch length ) and had similar length to the Fairmont's predecessor, the Maverick ( at 109. 9-inch wheelbase and 193. 9-inch length ), the Tempo had been meant as the sedan and coupe versions of the Ford Escort, and both vehicles were in similar classes, similar to how Volkswagen's sedan and coupe answer to the Golf hatchbacks would be the Jetta.

Also, it was to be the last year for the 3-speed automatic version of this transaxle ( it was slightly redesigned, given overdrive, and was used on the Ford Escort / Mercury Tracer / Mazda 323 / Kia Sephia ).

While these changes were not as draconian as many had feared ( for example, one of the most popular cars for road rallies at this time was the Mk II Ford Escort, usually fitted with a 2-litre + high performance engine-many thought these would be banned in favour of a maximum capacity limit of 1300cc or even 1100cc ), the changes had a dramatic impact.

It would be the last Grand Prix of Surer's career as he would be seriously injured testing a Ford Escort RS200 rally car a week later.

However, a group of employees at the plant that produced the EXP took one off the line and fitted it with parts from the recently refreshed Escort to create what they thought would be a more appealing and competitive model.

It recommended that the Singapore Police Force's Guard and Escort Unit ( 守卫及护卫组 ), itself formed in 1958, be hived off as a statutory board of the Government of Singapore, in a bid to relieve manpower constraints on the SPF by empowering the new statutory board with the ability to conduct its own recruitment schemes tailored specifically for armed security services.

Escort quests can be beneficial, in forcing the player's focus to a particular area in order to play out a scene or reveal a section of the plot.

Today, some station wagons like the Škoda Fabia, the Opel Astra or the final generation of the Ford Escort, can be ordered as a sedan delivery.

Though herbicides are chemicals, they are often grouped with biological warfare and chemical warfare because they may work in a similar manner as biotoxins or bioregulators and also because the Army Biological Laboratory tested them and the Army's Technical Escort Unit which all chemical, biological, radiological ( nuclear ) materials.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

Exceptions include the 1995-1996 Ford Escort / Mercury Tracer and the Eagle Summit Wagon which had automatic safety belts along with dual airbags.

The car described in the Champion book is built using parts from a Mk1 or Mk2 Ford Escort with front spindles from Ford Cortina.

Prisoner and Escort became Porridge, airing from 1974 – 1977, with Barker starring as the cynical and cunning prisoner Norman Stanley Fletcher.

Escort services offering sexual services euphemistically as ' entertainment ' or ' companionship ' are ubiquitous, with about 140 pages of the Las Vegas yellow pages devoted to " entertainers ".

Cosworth increased its association with Ford in 1969, by developing a double overhead camshaft ( DOHC ) 16-valve inline four-cylinder engine for road use in the Ford Escort.

Best known in Europe for its relationship with Ford-in particular because of the COSWORTH name in the vehicle title on the high-performance Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and Ford Escort RS Cosworth, but also in the creation of other Ford models ; the Escort RS1600, Escort RS1800, RS200, and Scorpio 2. 9i 24V.

European manufacturers often built two-door station wagons in the post-war period for the compact class, and not four-door models, a practice that continued at Ford ( amongst others ) with its Escort Mark III, for example, well into the 1980s.

The raid is preceded by Operation Escort, with Shayetet 13 naval commandos sinking a pair of Egyptian torpedo boats that could have threatened the Israeli raiding party.

In 1993, the Cavalier was firmly re-established as Britain's most popular large family car, with more than 130, 000 sales, while the third generation Astra ( relaunched in 1991 ) with 100, 000 sales was continuing to narrow the gap between itself and the best-selling Ford Escort.

Ford replaced the long-running Escort with the Ford Focus in 1998, featuring a model range with sedan, station wagon, and three and five door hatchbacks.

Volumes recovered, and with the aging Austin / Morris 1100 / 1300 now losing out to various newer models, the Cortina was Britain's top selling car in 1972, closely followed by the Escort.

Even in 1982, when during its final year of production it was pushed off the top of the charts by the Ford Escort, the Cortina was still hugely popular with buyers.

The aerodynamic features of the Sierra were developed from those first seen in the Escort Mark III — the " Aeroback " bootlid stump was proved to reduce the drag coefficient of the bodyshell significantly, which was a class leading Cd0. 34 at its launch, though not as good as the Cd0. 22 of the visually similar Ford Probe III concept car of the previous year, and also behind the contemporary third generation Audi 100 that was unveiled the same year-the first production car to get below the Cd0. 30 barrier with an impressive figure of Cd0. 28.

The Ford Cortina had been manufactured in saloon and estate bodystyles but after the switch to the Sierra, combined with the redesign of the Escort to Mark III level in 1980 and the introduction of the Granada Mark III in 1985, Ford had changed its saloon-based line-up into a hatchback-based one.

Furthermore, any marketing boosts Ford could have gained through Group A touring car racing were over with the Escort Cosworth becoming the company's standard-bearer in competition ( and the Escort, meanwhile, was absent from the New Zealand market ).

Its replacement came in the form of the Escort RS Cosworth which appeared in 1992, which used a shortened and developed version of the Sierra platform and running gear but clothed with an Escort-esque bodyshell and the return of the whale-tail spoiler.