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Naval Narratives of Re-enactment: In Which We Serve and Sea of Fire [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines two narrative examples of the Royal Navy and naval combat on screen, exploring their resemblances in the reenactment of naval history and their portrayal of the past through consistent representational strategies.
Basinger J. +7 more
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URAT: astrometric requirements and design history [PDF]
, 2006 The U.S. Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT) project aims at a highly accurate (5 mas), ground-based, all-sky survey. Requirements are presented for the optics and telescope for this 0.85 m aperture, 4.5 degree diameter field-of-view ...
Epps, H. +3 more
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U.S. Naval expansion in the Gilded Age [PDF]
, 2015 U.S. naval expansion is considered to be inevitable. When it is discussed at all, especially in recent scholarly works, it merits at most a few paragraphs briefly mentioning that in the late nineteenth century the United States constructed a modern navy.
Barr, George Sturginne
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, 2019 A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood, and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of
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Photo Essay: HMCS \u3cem\u3eHaida\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2012 In Canada, historic naval ships are not as plentiful as in the United States but their history is just as rich. Although Canada’s naval tradition is a young one, officially starting with the Naval Act in 1910, the legacy is a lasting one that continues ...
Morse, Carla
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, 2014 Shortly after the article that follows was drafted, I was notified that I had been nominated for promotion to vice admiral and assignment as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Carter, Walter E. Ted, Jackson, John E.
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The naval career of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells in the Mediterranean : 1842-1853 [PDF]
, 1998 The British naval connection to the Maltese Islands saw the arrival during the nineteenth century of a number of British medical practitioners. Some of these were noteworthy either because of their contribution to local medical and social history, or ...
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Naval History by Conspiracy Theory: The British Admiralty before the First World War and the Methodology of Revisionism [PDF]
, 2015 Revisionist interpretations of British naval policy in the Fisher era claim that an elaborate smoke screen was created to hide the Royal Navy’s real policies; while documents showing the true goals were systematically destroyed.
Grimes Shawn T. +13 more
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, 2009 Fifty Washington Square is the address of an imposing Neo-Renaissance building occupying a prominent position diagonally across from the Colony House at the head of Washington Square, in the heart of old colonial Newport.
Yarnall, James L
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“One More for Luck”: The Destruction of U971 by HMCS Haida and HMS Eskimo, 24 June 1944 [PDF]
, 2012 On the evening of 23 June 1944, HMCS Haida and HMS Eskimo set out from Plymouth, operational base of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla (10th DF), to conduct a sweep of the Western Approaches to the English Channel.
Gough, Barry M., Woods, James A.
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