The ships are among the largest vessels in the ancient world.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The largest port is Apra Harbor, which serves almost all commercial traffic including cruise, cargo and fishing vessels.

These hydrofoils were fast and well armed, and were capable of sinking all but the largest surface vessels.

North of Fernao Veloso and Memba the largest bays are Pemba ( where there is commodious anchorage for heavy draught vessels ), Montepuesi and Tunghi, the last named having for its northern arm Cape Delgado, the northernmost point on Mozambique's coast.

This dredged channel in the North Sea is being widened to to facilitate the largest container vessels for the new Maasvlakte 2 that will be opened in 2012.

By 2008, more than 815, 000 vessels had passed through the canal, many of them much larger than the original planners could have envisioned ; the largest ships that can transit the canal today are called Panamax.

Submarines have one of the largest ranges of capabilities in any vessel, ranging from small autonomous examples to one-or two-person vessels operating for a few hours, to vessels which can remain submerged for 6 months such as the Russian Typhoon class-the biggest submarines ever built and in use.

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

Generally, a sloop was smaller than a frigate ; however, in the later days of the U. S. Navy's sailing fleet, some of the largest vessels were called sloops because they carried fewer guns than a frigate, as few as 20.

Georgian Bay, which is the largest bay on Lake Huron, contains 212 of the 1, 000 sunk vessels in the lake.

Zula was the place where the British expedition of 1867 – 1868 against Tewodros disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchorage for the largest ocean-going vessels.

The fennec's characteristic ears are the largest among all foxes relative to body size, and serve to dissipate heat, as they have many blood vessels close to the skin.

Some of these vessels are amongst the largest ( such as supertankers ), most complex ( such as Aircraft carriers ), and highly valued movable structures produced by mankind.

* In the MMORPG EVE Online, the Erebus is the name of the Gallente race's Titan-class capital ship, one of the four largest vessels in the game.

Since these engagements were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships carrying the most powerful guns, the natural progression was to build sailing vessels that were the largest and most powerful of their time.

His company became one of the largest in the United States at the time for making wooden ships, building one thousand vessels ranging from fishing boats to sound steamers.

Fall River is well known for Lizzie Borden, Portuguese Culture, and Battleship Cove the world's largest collection of World War II naval vessels and the home of the.

The estuary is navigable here for the largest of deep-sea vessels.

The Royal Portbury Dock has the largest entrance lock into any UK port, accommodating vessels up to beam, length and draft.

1999 saw Paul Barnett commence a privately funded research project which saw the site's 81 vessels recorded and recognized as the largest ships ' graveyard in mainland Britain.

The largest boats that could be accommodated were 110-tonne vessels, although some of the locks were lengthened to take compartment boats.

The Navy currently has the largest SAR fleet of helicopters and also operates a number of small vessels for the purpose of rescuing crewmen of stricken ships.

In 1897 Rauma had the largest fleet of sailing boats in Finland, totalling 57 vessels.

He adds that the crossing to Thule starts at the island of Berrice, " the largest of all ", which may be Lewis in the outer Hebrides.

The TRIUMF cyclotron mentioned below is the largest with an outer orbit radius of 7. 9 metres, extracting protons at up to 510 MeV, which is 3 / 4 of the speed of light.

A number of solar system objects that are mostly to completely invisible to the human eye are reasonably detectable with medium-size binoculars, including larger craters on the Moon ; the dim outer planets Uranus and Neptune ; the inner " minor planets " Ceres, Vesta and Pallas ; Saturn's largest moon Titan ; and the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

Today, Drum Manor Forest Park is one of Cookstown District's largest tourist attractions ( complete with the highest-rated caravan site in the District ) but the only the ground floor outer walls of the Manor House survive.

The public Westport Marina is the largest marina on the outer coast of the United States's Pacific Northwest.

The islands have no permanent population, the only residents being National Trust bird wardens during part of the year: they live in the old pele tower on the Inner Farne, the largest and closest inshore of the islands, and the lighthouse cottage on the Brownsman in the outer group.

The narrowest of these streets were wide, those terminating at the gates of the outer walls being wide, and the largest of all, the Imperial Way that stretched from the central southern gate all the way to the Administrative City and West Palace in the north, was wide.

Buffalo, New York, the world's largest grain port from the 1850s until the first half of the 20th century, once had the nation's largest capacity for the storage of grain in over thirty concrete grain elevators located along the inner and outer harbors.

In 2007, construction work near the castle revealed stonework from the castle ’ s outer baileys, lending evidence to the claim that Okazaki Castle was once the fourth largest in Japan.

The largest castles, called hohenburgen, had well-defined inner and outer courts, but no mottes.

Rostral quadrangular, broader than deep, with a median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals, the upper much the largest and generally in contact with its fellow ; 8 or 9 upper and 6 or 7 lower labials ; mental moderately large, pentagonal ; chin-shields 3 pairs, inner very large, elongate, outer small, frequently broken up into small scales.

It follows that the outer radius of the lowest ( largest ) tier of the planet is approximately 4500 km.

With an area of within the outer rim of the reef, although completely submerged without any emergent cays or islets, it is one of the largest atolls of the world.

The causeways interrupting the ditches vary in width from a few centimetres to 7 m. Material from the ditches was piled up to create internal banks, the deepest ditches and largest banks are on the outer circuit.

Omega Centauri, in the constellation of Centaurus ( The Centaur ), is the largest globular cluster in the sky, but the very wide field of view of VST and its powerful camera OmegaCAM can encompass even the faint outer regions of this spectacular object.

Only the two outer largest regular moons have been imaged with a resolution sufficient to discern their shapes and surface features.

The 5 acre ( 2ha ) site consists of three concentric lines of stone walls, the outer ring the largest, running more than 650 feet with nineteen ' bastions ' and a gate guarded by foreworks.

The drive is separated into five concentric circles, with the outer track used for cycling or rollerblading, fourth largest for car driving, third for car parking and many trees, the second is a paved pathway for walking, also used for running, the smallest being a dirt track for horseriding.

This crater forms part of an unusual three-crater cluster, with De Sitter overlying the northeast rim of De Sitter L and the southern rim of De Sitter M. All three craters are of comparable dimension, with the largest being De Sitter M. Where De Sitter overlies the other two craters, its outer rim appears slumped.

The largest tunneling project at Smolensk came in December 1610 ; however, the Poles only managed to destroy more of the outer wall – the inner wall remained intact.

It was the largest prison in Europe, it consisted of a hexagonal central courtyard with an elongated pentagonal courtyard on each outer wall of the central courtyard, the three outer corners of the pentagonal courtyards had a tower one storey higher than the three floors of the rest of the building.

It was originally a country seat, usually won by the Country Party, but since 1980 it has been located in the outer southern suburbs of the two largest cities in WA ; Perth and Mandurah.