During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, Lehman was responsible for building a 600 ship Navy, establishing a strategy of maritime supremacy, and reforming ship and aircraft procurement.
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The past June, the Center for Security Policy awarded former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, father of the 600 ship Navy, with the Freedom Flame Award at the Union Club in New York City.
An economically superior Germany copied the design and matched the rebuilding U.K. navy ship for ship.
Canada brought in the big guns -- a Navy ship and Army helicopter with engineers and supplies.
Another spokesman said a Philippine Navy ship would escort the ship until it crossed into Malaysian waters.
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Officials described the course of events as standard procedures when a small boat gets too close to a U.S. Navy ship.
At least 11 vessels were involved in the search, led by Australian navy ship HMAS Maitland, which rescued 34 survivors, AMSA said.
Another will face a military court, accused of the bombing of a navy ship, the USS Cole, in 2000 in the port of Aden, in Yemen.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has refused aid, trade and talks with North Korea until Pyongyang apologizes for its alleged sinking of a South Korean navy ship and shelling of Yeonpyong Island.
It is widely thought that the unruffled pace of life in Tahiti prompted sailors on the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty to mutiny against their commanding officer, William Bligh, who was accused of mistreating his crew, in April 1789.
Duty later called Safferstein to the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, where U.S. forces had built airfields to launch long-range raids on Japan itself, and in mid-1945 the two bombs from Los Alamos had been secretly delivered by Navy ship.
The ship carried a Navy mobile security team that is authorized to respond to perceived threats, as do all military-contracted ships in the 5th Fleet's area of command in the waters surrounding the turbulent Middle East and East Africa, the Navy said.
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The ship, the USS Mount Whitney, is the Navy's only Joint Command Ship and is considered to be the most sophisticated ship ever commissioned in terms of communication, control, command, computers and intelligence capabilities, according to the Navy's Web site.
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Signal provides new construction and repairs to offshore drilling rigs and ship components for the Navy and Coast Guard.
The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort was due within 48 hours, Gupta said.
In the navy, lined up on his ship with 1, 199 other seamen in pure white, he affected navy and white because it looked nicer.
Just last week the US Navy intercepted a ship that was headed from Iran to Gaza with missiles and rockets on board.
Thirty-two Burmese nationals have been rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy after the wooden vessel began to sink en route to Australia.
The British and Russians used helicopters to counterattack the pirates, who fired machine guns and twice tried to seize the Danish ship, according to a navy spokesman.
The Royal Navy said the ship had been at the forefront of its mine detection capability in the region, where it has been working closely with multi-national forces.
The first ship was delivered to the Chinese navy in Shanghai on Monday, state-run news agency Xinhua said.
We're also deploying a Marine Expeditionary Unit, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and the Navy's hospital ship, the Comfort.
This is the next generation fighting ship, intended to replace Royal Navy frigates, as they retire from the start of next decade.
It's fully equipped with sea-based missile defense systems, has long been the Navy's primary ship for the sea-based missile defense program and has the technology needed for the operation, officials said.
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The Royal Navy's largest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, is moored in the Thames off Greenwich, where it will be a base for helicopter operations and house troops providing security at the Greenwich Park Olympic venue.
It's more than 50 years since the Royal Navy last commissioned a ship from a foreign country, goes the argument, and the first orders will be placed - or so we're told - after the autumn 2014 vote.
The Royal Navy's largest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, is now moored in the Thames off Greenwich, where it will act as a base for helicopter operations and house 400 troops providing security at the Greenwich Park Olympic venue.
He asked two senior administration officials about what would happen under the treaty if the US Navy needed to board a ship on the high seas.
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An Indian Navy officer, on board a ship off the coast, said the sea level was unchanged.
The secretary touts the advantages of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) as a versatile ship that go places too shallow for the Navy's blue-water ships.
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