* ABCD ships, The first four steel ships built during the " New Navy " period of U. S. Naval history-Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Dolphin

In addition, the navy contracted in late 1994 to acquire four Type 22 British Royal Navy frigates and three River-class minesweepers for delivery in the 1995-97 period.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

This was not a happy period for the Royal Navy.

Among numerous writers of the order in this period are: Cardinals Thomas Zigliara ( d. 1893 ) and Zephirin González ( d. 1894 ), two esteemed philosophers ; Father Alberto Guillelmotti ( d. 1893 ), historian of the Pontifical Navy, and Father Heinrich Denifle, one of the most famous writers on medieval history ( d. 1905 ).

This decoration takes precedence over the Distinguished Service Medals of the separate services and is not to be awarded to any individual for a period of service for which an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is awarded.

Their three sons, including actor Leslie Vincent, continued as the owners afterwards, except for the period of administration by the U. S. Navy during World War II ( 1940 – 1945 ).

A more successful and safer regulator was mass produced in France from 1865 to 1965 ( although production was twice interrupted during that period ): invented by Benoît Rouquayrol in 1860 for survival in flooded mines it was adapted to diving in 1864 with the help of French Navy officer Auguste Denayrouze.

In August 1941, Navy Pier was closed to the public, and in a five-month period was fully converted to a Navy training center designated to accommodate up to 10, 000 service personnel.

During the same period, new two-component polyurethane and hybrid polyurethane-polyurea elastomer technology was used to enter the marketplace of spray-in-place load bed liners and military marine applications for the U. S. Navy.

The period from April to June 1940 was one of the most stressful periods of the war for Raeder with operations involving the entire fleet in Norway, the French campaign and Raeder's obsessive fear that the Army and Air Force might win the war without the Navy, and which led to act in an manner that has been described as " irrational ".

His administrative skills having been noticed, Walpole was promoted by Lord Godolphin ( the Lord High Treasurer and leader of the Cabinet ) to the position of Secretary at War in 1708 ; for a short period of time in 1710 he also simultaneously held the post of Treasurer of the Navy.

During this period, he became a cast member on BBC radio and television comedy programmes such as The Navy Lark.

The United States Navy soon joined the search and over a period of about three days sent available resources to the search area in the vicinity of Howland Island.

The classification of Royal Navy vessels in this period can therefore mislead ; they would often be carrying fewer guns but more pieces of ordnance than they were described as carrying.

Rupert continued to serve as an admiral in the Royal Navy throughout the period, ultimately rising to the rank of " General at Sea and Land ".

More than 27 ships of the French Navy, over a period of 200 years, have borne the name Jean Bart.

The parade includes Mexican Army, Navy, Special Forces and soldiers dressed in period uniform.

In Russia, during the period before and after the Soviet Union, the naval ensign of the Russian Navy has been an inverse representation of the Cross of Saint Andrew.

He credited his time in the Navy as a period of renewed introspection.

It was during this period he developed a friendship with Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

The Japanese Navy is stagnant until the Meiji period.

During this period Adams was twice awarded the Navy Cross.

During the Soviet period, the Soviet Navy operated an extensive facility at the lake's eastern end, where submarine and torpedo technology was evaluated.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed " the reign of the judges ", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.

The Roman army adopted the technology for their troops in the form of the lorica hamata which was used as a primary form of armour through the Imperial period.

The ancient Japanese of the Kofun period also adopted cavalry and equine culture by the 5th century AD.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

An impression has sometimes arisen that ephemeris time was in use from 1900: this probably arose because ET, though proposed and adopted in the period 1948 – 1952, was defined in detail using formulae that made retrospective use of the epoch date of 1900 January 0 and of Newcomb's Tables of the Sun.

High-precision ephemerides of sun, moon and planets were developed and calculated at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) over a long period, and the latest available were adopted for the ephemerides in the Astronomical Almanac starting in 1984.

It also requires to " facilitate " the acquisition of nationality by certain persons, including spouses of nationals, children of its nationals born abroad, children one of whose parents has acquired the nationality, children adopted by a national, persons lawfully and habitually resident for a period before the age of eighteen, and stateless persons and refugees lawfully and habitually resident on its territory.

During the period of 1945 – 1950, the government adopted policies which were intended to consolidate power.

During the period of controversy over the names of the elements ( see element naming controversy ) IUPAC adopted unniloctium ( symbol Uno ) as a temporary element name for this element.

In addition, during a period of religious zeal in 1807 and 1808, most, but not all, of the Harmonists adopted the practice of celibacy and there were also few marriages among the members.

For example, if an insider expects to retire after a specific period of time and, as part of his or her retirement planning, the insider has adopted a written binding plan to sell a specific amount of the company's stock every month for two years and later comes into possession of material nonpublic information about the company, trades based on the original plan might not constitute prohibited insider trading.

After an exhaustive and divisive debate with the non-Hindi speakers, Hindi was adopted as the official language of India in 1950 with English continuing as an associate official language for a period of fifteen years, after which Hindi would become the sole official language.

The idea that the moral quality of one's actions influences one's rebirth is absent from India until the period of the shramana religions, and the Brahmins appear to have adopted this idea from other religious groups.

The ' roundel symbol ' designed in 1918 was adopted by London Passenger Transport Board and the London Transport brand and architectural style was perfected during this period.

During this period of service, he adopted a son.

Most countries have adopted the metric system officially over a transitional period where both units are used for a set period of time.

This also occurred in the pre-confederation period though the adopted dialect was closer to British English reflecting the political circumstances of the day.

It received international sanction in 1960, when it was adopted as an official period of the Paleozoic Era by the International Geological Congress.

A new name, " Party of Democratic Socialism ", was adopted to distance the reformed party from its communist past ( after a brief transitional period as the SED / PDS ).