The work was finished 9 years later and transported via warship, steamship, and finally mule train before being dedicated on Christmas Eve.

The first modern production technology for armour plating was used by navies in the construction of the Ironclad warship, reaching its pinnacle of development with the battleship.

The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

This was the first turbine warship of any kind and achieved a remarkable on sea trials.

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.

In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being " frigate-built ".

In the late 19th century ( beginning about 1858 with the construction of prototypes by the British and French navies ), the armoured frigate was a type of ironclad warship and for a time was the most powerful type of vessel afloat.

In response, a United States warship was dispatched to the area, and the Honduran government began arresting leaders.

She was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.

After World War II and until 1975, the U. S. Navy defined a " frigate " as a type of surface warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser ; in other navies, such a ship generally was referred to as a destroyer leader — hence the U. S. Navy's use of " DL " for " frigate " prior to 1975 — while " frigates " in other navies were smaller than destroyers and more like what the U. S. Navy termed a " destroyer escort ", " ocean escort ", or " DE ".

However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.

In October and November 1755 he took part in Eagles capture of one French warship and the sinking of another, following which he was promoted to boatswain in addition to his other duties.

Its first warship was delivered in 1966.

Byron, commanding the British warship HMS Blonde, was returning to London from a special mission to Honolulu to repatriate the remains of the young king and queen of Hawaii, who had died of measles during a visit to Britain.

The Scandinavians started adapting more continental European ways, whilst retaining an emphasis on naval power-the " Viking " clinker-built warship was used in war until the 14th century at least.

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

Hence the warship was dispatched to Palmyra, on February 21, 1912, she formally reaffirmed the American claim on Palmyra.

( Their lack of starships was noted when, in one DS9 episode, a high-ranking official from the Order had to " hitch a ride " with a Cardassian warship for transportation.

Known Cardassian starships include the Galor-class warship, a medium-sized cruiser which, throughout The Next Generation, was the most powerful vessel in Cardassian service.

The first involved a blockading, British warship in the Charlestown Harbor that was captured and burned.

Working closely with Admiral Charles-Hector Estaing, the Commander of the French Fleet, Le Ray's support for the American cause involved having his shipyards refit a merchant vessel into a warship that he then gifted to America under the name USS Bonhomme Richard for use by Captain John Paul Jones.

In 1848, the seizure of San Juan del Norte, subsequently renamed Greytown by the Miskito supported by a British warship, aroused great excitement in the United States, and even involved the risk of war.

* In September 1911 was involved in a collision with the warship Hawke in the Solent, badly damaging both ships.

In the general chaos, Russian ships shot at each other: when the protected cruiser Aurora ( Aврора ), which had yet to be involved, approached, she was taken for a Japanese warship, bombarded and slightly damaged.

This was one of the few fleet actions of the nineteenth century, and as a major sea battle that involved ramming, it had a profound, though with hindsight a detrimental, effect on warship design and tactics.

The first step involved the creation of a secret warship ( a Bird of Prey ) with a unique ability ; unlike other Klingon warships, it could fire its weapons while its cloaking device was enabled.

Although not a conventional warship, this now involved Hall in intelligence work.

13, 43-67 ( 1988 ), UDK 904. 930. 2 ( 497. 13 )>> 65 <<, pages 45, 53 </ ref > However, although their territory was not involved in these confrontations, it seems that the Liburna warship was used by the Romans during the Punic Wars and in the Second Macedonian War.

* December 2 – The U. S. Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered warship to see combat when she launches air strikes at the Viet Cong near Bien Hoa, South Vietnam.

In 1845, this almost prompted a clash between Vietnam and the American warship USS Constitution who attempted to force Trị to free the missionary Dominique Lefèbvre, who had repeatedly come to Vietnam illegally multiple times.

But just as Luca is testifying, the hearings are adjourned because of a national emergency: North Vietnam has attacked a U. S. warship in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* 1628 – The Swedish warship sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.

As the K-19 has been unable to inform anyone in the outside world of her predicament, the United States, the Soviet Union, or anyone else will only know that a huge nuclear explosion has destroyed a U. S. warship and NATO base ; that such a disaster could trigger World War III.

For example, in the last scene, a space warship is sent on a twelve-year trip to Titan, with not only life-support for a large crew but also enough armaments-presumably nuclear-to all by itself confront an entire world.

Although London's upstream enclosed docks have closed and central London sees only the occasional visiting cruise ship or warship, the tidal river remains one of Britain's main ports.

The planning for this operation only stopped in late 1941 when Hitler heard of it, and vetoed the operation under the grounds that even a British Pyrrhic victory was not worth losing every single German warship.

After WW II A. G. „ Weser ” only built a single warship for the German Navy, in 1979 / 81 the Bremen class F122-type frigate Niedersachsen in collaboration with frigate general contractor Bremer Vulkan.

Unlike a merchant ship, which carries cargo, a warship typically only carries weapons, ammunition and supplies for its crew.

As evidence he pointed to the theft of large amounts of gunpowder from Kawau Island in 1856 and the attack on Auckland City from the sea that was only stopped by a British warship and troops from Fort Britomart.

The only nuclear submarine ever to sink an enemy warship, she was paid off and laid up in 1990.

Takanami was the only Japanese warship hit by American gunfire and seriously damaged during the battle.

The US destroyer is the only US warship to fly the White Ensign along with the Stars and Stripes to honour its British namesake.

In a secondary plotline, President Sheridan tells his wife Delenn that Earth Alliance President Luchenko has agreed to build a new, larger class of warship for the Interstellar Alliance, but will only do it if the Minbari agree to cooperate.

It was announced on 6 July 2005 that by the end of 2005, the Atlantic Patrol Task ( North ) was to be carried out by a single warship, a frigate or destroyer, only during the higher-risk months from July to October, while a Wave-class Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel with an embarked Merlin helicopter would supplement the warship for the duration of the hurricane season from May to November.

The use of force was not authorized, and if the tanker absolutely refused to comply, the shadowing warship could take no more action and only follow it to within Mozambique's six-mile territorial limit.

" Things changed when Sentinel brought the others to an organic planet to find a lost Decepticon warship, only to be attacked by giant alien spiders that inhabited the planet and the ship exploded during the confrontation.

Even in major naval engagements, wooden ships of the line might rarely be destroyed ; for instance, only one warship was sunk at Trafalgar in 1805.

Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

He attempted to interest various European navies in his design for a super warship, but only Sweden showed any notable interest ; their great naval architect Chapman called it the " English ( sic ) sea-spook ".

Wooden boats became so vulnerable that the only possible response could come with the introduction of the iron-hulled warship.

For centuries, the only Korean water-borne vessels clad in metal were ones that served military purposes, so the General Sherman would have looked like a warship to the Koreans.

The, a U. S. Navy intelligence ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and the only U. S. warship still being held in captivity, is currently moored at what is believed to be the spot where the incident took place.

The Falklands war also saw the only time a warship has been sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine in a hostile attack when the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror attacked the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano with torpedoes.

She hopes to turn Earth into a giant warship, and Farnsworth is the only person who knows how to build an engine large enough to move the Earth.