At the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the PLAN, 52 vessels were shown in manoeuvres off Qingdao in April 2009 including previously unseen nuclear submarines.

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

Overall, between 1985 and 2006, PLAN naval vessels visited 18 Asian-Pacific nations, 4 South American nations, 8 European nations, 3 African nations, and 3 North American nations.

A campaign, " Head North " has been started near the end of 2006 that is intended to improve the school's ACT score before the PSAE testing along with other resource such as test-taking workshops to assisting sophomores who have struggled on the pre-ACT examination called the PLAN test.

However, the calculator is banned from use on the ACT, the PLAN, and in some classrooms.

CAS-equipped calculators are not permitted on the ACT, the PLAN, and in some classrooms because they may affect the integrity of the test / class ,< ref >

Also in 1966, South-West Africa People's Organisation's ( SWAPO ) military wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) began guerrilla attacks on South African forces, infiltrating the territory from bases in Zambia.

They discussed the need to take stronger measures against SWAPO, moving from the defensive position of reacting to PLAN incursions into SWA / Namibia, to one were the SADF would conduct pre-emptive attacks on PLAN bases in Angola.

* Hong Kong had an RN dockyard from 1859 to 1959, now in the custody of the Chinese PLAN, the yard is located on Stonecutters Island.

See Ranks of the People's Liberation Army or the article on an individual rank for details on the evolution of rank and insignia in the PLAN.

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

The PLAN initially utilized Soviet-based hardware as the backbone of their forces, with increasing domestic production over time.

The People's Republic of China acquired SS-N-22 launchers and missiles ( specifically, the for-export 3M-80E Moskit variant ) with a 1999 – 2000 purchase of two Sovremenny destroyers from Russia. According to Russia, the PRC funded the development of the SS-N-22 version for the People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN ).

** Lyricists: Teruyoshi Uchimura with Boon Companions and Emi Makiho / Composer / Arranger: Yasumasa Sato / Singers: NO PLAN

; PLAN: Establish the objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with the expected output ( the target or goals ).

Cezary Ketling's group of the PLAN resistance organization managed to dig two secret tunnels under the walls of the ghetto, providing contact with the outside and allowing smuggling of arms into the ghetto.

* – 12 total in use with the Namibian Defence Force, most inherited directly from PLAN or captured models in the custody of the former South West African administration.

The base was attacked again and by 15: 30 pm fighting ceased, with the remaining PLAN forces either killed, surrendered or having escaped into the bush.

The programme, that young people have designed with the help and assistance of Scouters follows a simple process PLAN, DO, REVIEW.

*-In service with the PLAN

* April 1, 2001: Hainan Island incident, a Chinese PLAN jet intercepting a US Navy reconnaissance aircraft collides with the US plane.

PLAN Type 052C destroyer | Type 052C air defence destroyer

Showing a picture of PLAN ( test ) | PLAN test booklets, a special version of ACT for sophomores.

But the Government's intentions seem clear in that it decided to split the four MOD directorates evenly, appointing two white and two black ( ex PLAN ) directors.

He was previously the leader of PLAN, and a survivor of the Battle of Cassinga.

The People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN or PLA Navy ) is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army, the armed forces of the People's Republic of China.

With a personnel strength of over 250, 000, the PLAN also includes the 35, 000-strong Coastal Defense Force and the 56, 000-strong PLA Marine Corps, plus a 56, 000-strong PLA Naval Air Force, operating several hundred land-based aircraft and ship-based helicopters.

The PLAN traces its lineage to units of the Republic of China Navy who defected to the People's Liberation Army towards the end of the Chinese Civil War.

As the 21st century approached, the PLAN began to transition to an off-shore defensive strategy that entailed more out-of-area operations away from its traditional territorial waters.

PLAN vessels visited Vladivostok in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996.

In 2003, the PLAN conducted its first joint naval exercises during separate visits to Pakistan and India.

On 26 December 2008, the PLAN dispatched a task group consisting of the guided missile destroyer Haikou ( flagship ), the guided missile destroyer Wuhan, and the supply ship Weishanhu to the Gulf of Aden to participating in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia.

Recent PLAN incidents include the 2001 Hainan Island incident, a major submarine accident in 2003, and naval incidents involving the U. S. MSC-operated ocean surveillance ships and during 2009.

As part of its overall program of naval modernization, the PLAN has a long-term plan of developing a blue water navy.

Since this operation PLAN has sought the leadership of the ‘ Shared Awareness and Deconfliction ’ body ( SHADE ), which would require an increase in the number of vessels contributing to the anti-piracy fleet.

The PLAN is organized into several departments for purposes of command, control and coordination ; main operating forces are organized into 3 fleets.

The Court remanded for consideration of whether PLAN committed the requisite acts in a pattern of racketeering activity.

Durie has donated his time and resources to several charities, including PLAN International, The Children ’ s Cancer Institute, FSHD, Sydney Children ’ s Hospital and The Children ’ s Hospital at Westmead, The Variety Club, Rotary, The Children First Foundation, Westmead Millenium Institute among others.

* 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

One US aircraft was damaged, one 14. 5 mm round hit the destroyer, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed and six were wounded ; there were no U. S. casualties.

Despite the Navy ’ s claim that two attacking torpedo boats had been sunk, there was no wreckage, bodies of dead North Vietnamese sailors, or other physical evidence present at the scene of the alleged engagement.

Oriental is midpoint on the Intracoastal Waterway ( ICW ) and a destination for hundreds of cruising sailors travelling North and South with the seasons.

The Norse colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century, when Norse sailors ( usually referred to as Vikings ) explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeastern fringes of North America.

They point to what they say are the continuing provocations and criminal activities committed by the North, such as the 2002 sea battle that left several South Korean sailors dead,

In the mid 17th century the area suffered from the ravages of Turkish pirates ( actually Algerian rovers ), who raided the Devon and Cornwall coastlines, attacking shipping and attempting to capture sailors and villagers for sale as slaves in North Africa.

Wilhelm von Christ was convinced that the continent was America and states that in the 1st century sailors travelling through Iceland, Greenland, and the Baffin Region reached the North American coast.

Because of incorrect reports about the presence of Japanese torpedo boats, submarines and minefields in the North Sea, and the general nervousness of the Russian sailors, 48 harmless fishing vessels were attacked by the Russians, thousands of miles away from enemy waters.

Many literate English people were familiar with the captivity narratives written by British sailors and passengers during the 17th century, who were often taken captive at sea off North Africa and sometimes sold into slavery in the Middle East.

Negotiations, not force, won the release of the captured sailors, though the Pueblo remains in North Korea.

It seems that it was this industry, along with cod-fishing, is what brought Basque sailors to the North Sea and eventually to Newfoundland.

Because it was clear that the guilt clearly rested on the North Koreans and not Bucher or the sailors on the Pueblo, Chafee stated that " Bucher and his men have suffered enough ", and that a court martial would only add insult to injury.

It is a combination of North American, West African and Latin American styles, and emerged in the 1950s in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia, especially among the Liberian Kru people, who were sailors that played Spanish guitar, banjo, pennywhistle, harmonica, accordion, mandolin and concertina.

With Kamorta ( Camorta ) Island, which lies just to the North, Nancowry Island forms the " magnificent land-locked " Nancowry Harbour (), used by European sailors since at least the 17th century and described as " one of the safest natural harbours in the world " ().

* Saint Brendans Sailing Boat ( s ): North America reached by Irish sailors prior to Vikings and Christopher Columbus

* The Vikings introduced in Pirates of the Frozen North are not historical Vikings, but Norse sailors who use Viking mythology, symbols and names for their ships.

* American, French and Israeli naval forces rescue three Syrian and Egyptian sailors from a North Korean ship that sank in international waters off the coast of Nahariya.

At the end of the North Bull Wall is the famous Star of the Sea ( Realt na Mara ) statue, funded by Dublin Port workers and sailors, and dedicated by the then Archbishop of Dublin in 1972.

In the 1960s, the few retired sailors still living here were moved to Sea Level, North Carolina.