Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

There is still a large military presence on the peninsula ; the home base of Russia's Pacific submarine fleet is across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Rybachy base.

Union Pacific Railroad operated the largest fleet of gas turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and was the only railroad to use them for hauling freight in regular service.

Eventually Soviet assistance progressed to the point that a joint Sino-Soviet Pacific Ocean fleet was under discussion.

Examples of the expansion of China's capabilities were the 1980 recovery of an intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) in the Western Pacific by a twenty-ship fleet, extended naval operations in the South China Sea in 1984 and 1985, and the visit of two naval ships to three South Asian nations in 1985.

* USS Merrimack ( AO-37 ), 1942 – 1954, a Kennebec-class fleet oiler, served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II

On 9 August, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, commander of the 1st Pacific Squadron, was ordered to sortie his fleet to Vladivostok, link up with the Squadron stationed there, and then engage the IJN in decisive battle.

This area was the site of the Sydney Port Authority and currently features an Overseas Passenger Terminal ( Wharf 8 ) which is mainly used by the Pacific Dawn of the P & O Australia fleet and MS Sun Princess which is operated by Princess Cruises.

Following the War, MINSY was considered to be one of the primary stations for construction and maintenance of the Navy's Pacific fleet of submarines, having built seventeen submarines and four submarine tenders by the end of hostilities.

Now in its 100th year, the Port of Seattle owns and operates many properties on behalf of King County's citizens, including Sea-Tac International Airport ; many seaport facilities around Elliott Bay, including its original property, publicly owned Fishermen's Terminal, home to the North Pacific fishing fleet and the largest homeport for fishermen in the U. S. West Coast ; four container ship terminals ; two cruise ship terminals ; the largest grain export terminal in the U. S. Pacific Northwest ; three public marinas ; 22 public parks ; and nearly 5, 000 acres of industrial lands in the Ballard-Interbay and Lower Duwamish industrial centers.

In addition, specifically as Japan had arisen as a major seapower with the 1905 annihilation of the Russian fleet at Tsushima, it sent a message to Tokyo that the American fleet could be deployed anywhere, even from its Atlantic ports, and would be able to defend American interests in the Philippines and the Pacific.

After the fleet had crossed the Pacific, Japanese statesmen realized that the balance of power in the East had changed since the Root – Takahira Agreement that defined relevant spheres of interest of the United States and Japan.

With the 1973 selection of the Bangor Ammunition Depot northwest of Bremerton as the Pacific home of the new Trident submarine fleet, residential and commercial development began to move closer to Silverdale and farther from the Bremerton downtown core.

To accomplish these tasks, CCG has a sizable fleet of vessels and aircraft, all serviced from various bases and smaller stations located on three coasts ( Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific ) and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

In 1967 WAL merged with Pacific Northern Airlines and in the late ' 60s pushed for an all-jet fleet, adding Boeing 707s, 727s and 737s to their fleet of Boeing 720Bs.

In 1984 the company began to operate charter services to the South Pacific using Douglas DC-8 aircraft, and soon added Lockheed L-1011 aircraft to the fleet for West Coast services.

In The World at War, a naval serviceman — who had been alongside Admiral Kimmel during the attack — recalled that as Kimmel watched the destruction of the fleet, he tore off his four-star shoulder boards and replaced them with those of a rear admiral, in apparent recognition of the impending end of his command of the Pacific Fleet.

In a 1964 interview, Admiral Chester Nimitz, who became commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet three weeks after the attack, concluded that " it was God ′ s mercy that our fleet was in Pearl Harbor on December 7.

* Sequences set at the rail yard, shot on the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway in Anaconda, Montana, used local locomotives from the BA & P fleet along with former Northern Pacific EMD F9 # 7012A, leased from the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

Blue Note Records became the flagship jazz label for Capitol Jazz and Classics and was the parent label for the Capitol Jazz, Pacific Jazz, Roulette and other labels within Capitol's holdings which possessed a jazz line.

A new hardtop named Pacific was added to the flagship Patrician series and all higher-end Packards sported a bored-out 359-cid engine.

Adm. Halsey confers with Task Force 38 commander and fellow ' dirty trickster ' Adm. John McCain on board Halsey's flagship, the USS New Jersey ( BB-62 ) | USS New Jersey, 1944. As the war progressed it moved out of the South Pacific and into the Central Pacific.

The flagship airline of Hong Kong is called Cathay Pacific because the founders envisioned that one day, the airline would cross the Pacific Ocean from China.

Commodore ( Rear Admiral ) John D. Sloat, commander of the U. S. Navy's Pacific Squadron, dispatched his flagship, the Frigate, and the Sloop to Monterey harbor where they arrived on July 2, 1846.

Shortly before midnight on June 18, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sent Spruance a message from Pacific Fleet Headquarters indicating that the Japanese flagship was approximately 350 miles ( 562 km ) to the west-southwest of Task Force 58.

It was an attack carried out by French DGSE Agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart aimed at sinking the flagship craft of the Greenpeace Organization to stop her from interfering in French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.

Admiral Rozhesvensky selected the Knyaz Suvorov, one of four brand new battleships of the French-designed Borodino class, as his flagship for the voyage to the Pacific.

As the flagship PBS station for the Pacific Time Zone, KCET was a major producer of PBS programming.

A month later Beresford was transferred to the steam-frigate Sutlej, the flagship of the Pacific Squadron.

The North Coast Limited was the Northern Pacific's flagship train and the Northern Pacific itself was built along the trail first blazed by Lewis and Clark.

* North Coast Limited: handled Northern Pacific Railway's flagship between Chicago and Minneapolis.

Beginning in November 2007, Hedgecock hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show on Saturdays, from 9: 00 a. m. to 12 noon Pacific Time ; flagship station is AM 600 KOGO.

His seagoing appointment for the following two and a half years, with 60 subordinates and 24 radar sets, was the battleship HMS < i > King George V </ i >, which eventually became flagship of the British Pacific Fleet.

CBUT-DT is the CBC Television owned-and-operated station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and serves as the Pacific Time Zone flagship of the network.

Promoted rear admiral in 1849, he was commander-in-chief of the Pacific Station 1850 to 1853, based at Valparaiso, Chile, with the flagship HMS Portland.

While Commander in Chief of the Pacific station, he was unable to save his flagship Trenton from the violent typhoon which struck Samoa from 15 to 17 March 1889.

These formations included Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla One in the Pacific ( included Parks ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Three at Long Beach in the Pacific ( commanded for a time by Rear Admiral Draper Kauffman ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Two in the Atlantic ( included Yosemite ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Four in the Atlantic, which supplied ships for the Task Force Alfa antisubmarine experiment and had USS Shenandoah ( AD-26 ) as flagship for a time.

On 1 February 1946, he made the carrier USS his flagship as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, a post he held until March 1947.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.

By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

" From sea to shining sea " is an American idiom meaning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ( or vice versa ).

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

Covering approximately 22 % of Earth's surface, the Atlantic is second in size to the Pacific.

Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by typhoons between December and March.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( ACC ) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins.

Deflection is also seen as it passes over the mid-ocean ridge in the Southeast Pacific.

* Bigfoot also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that cryptozoologists believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

Southeast Alaska is a temperate rain forest within the Pacific temperate rain forest zone, as classified by the World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion system, which extends from northern California to Prince William Sound.

The region is closely connected to Seattle and the American Pacific Northwest economically and culturally.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.