What was the name of the First Dreadnought Battleship?  When was it launched?
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The HMS Dreadnought was launched in 1906 and created the battleship class.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_armada
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On the morning of April 28th, 1789, led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian, twelve crewmembers staged the now famous mutiny, capturing the ship, and setting Lt. Bligh and his supporters adrift in the ship's launch.\n\nThe Saga of HMS Bounty.
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HMS Hood, with a full load displacement of approximatley 46,000tons, was the largest Royal Navy ship sunk during WWII.  She was sunk during the Battle of the Denmark Staits when engaging the German battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prince Eugen.  There's some debate as to which ship sank her, but most evidence suggests that the fifth salvo from the Bismarck was the culprit.
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Maybe this will help you get started.........good luck\nhttp://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq26-1.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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Named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, Prinz Eugen was a Hipper-class heavy cruiser. Prinz Eugen fought alongside the German super battleship Bismarck in the Battle of Denmark Strait (May 24, 1941). Together, they scuttled the Royal Navy ship HMS Hood, and mauled the Prince of Wales. Prinz Eugen separated with the Bismarck, and afterwards the Bismarck was sunk by HMS Dorsetshire and Sworfish torpedo bombers. After the loss of Bismarck, Adolf Hitler banned further surface raids (they used U-boats instead). Prinz Eugen was then assigned to defend Norwegian waters, along with battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Her stern was destroyed by a torpedo from HMS Trident on February 23, 1942.\n\nFrom 1944 onward, Prinz Eugen was assigned to the Baltic coast. There she met with the light cruiser Leipzig, and almost destroyed the ship.\n\nOn April 20, 1945 Prinz Eugen reached Copenhagen and never left the port again. Along with Nurnberg, they were the only two operational German cruisers left and surrendered on May 7, 1945.
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The first cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1.
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Union Admiral at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.\n\n"Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!"\n\nYou could always Google it yourself.......
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USS Nimitz, CVN-68, named for Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet during WWII, and the first ship of the Nimitz class aircraft carriers.
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Like another person stated it depends on what type of ship you were on. My first ship was an Ammo Ship, the Mount Baker AE-34 and my GQ station was the main sprinkler system system for the cargo decks. My second ship the Sims DDG-18 was Mount Capt.That involved if the computerized fire control went out I was to fire the gun.
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Oh hold on, I have one right here, Next to my collection of WW2 Torpedo and Gun boats.  Can i interest you in a nice little MG42 for seeing off the odd sail boat or two?
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The prototype was named the Enterprise... it's first voyage was in 1977.  It never flew into space.\n\nCrippin & Young flew the Columbia into space on April 12, 1981.  It was mission STS-1.
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Aft, Naval term for rear.
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When I started this project, I had no idea how big it would get. I figured that I would just use a few of my reference books on naval ships so that people on the Netnews group rec.arts.startrek.misc would ask fewer uninformed questions about naval history. I used to post it regularly to that newsgroup, until Joe Creighton offered to put it on his "Star Trek Archive" web site. (April 1995) The hit rate astonished me! People were really reading this stuff! Anyhow, people started e-mailing me with additional information, suggestions for improvements, etc. It got to be a bit overwhelming. Now I'm finding that it's not just Star Trek fans who are interested. I'm now finding links to this site on real naval history sites! I suppose I should point out to any legitimate naval historians out there that this was originally designed for fans of the various Star Trek television series, and so references to future history (23rd & 24th centuries) and an obscure incedent aboard CVN-65 in 1986 involving one Pavel Chekov are of course, fiction. I was also a bit sloppier about references than I should have been. When I started this, I was doing it for a (then) small community of Star Trek fans on the Internet, and I wasn't really planning on it being an academic work with footnotes and references. Some things got lost in the shuffle, and probably a few errors have crept in during transcription. Nevertheless, I've tried to at least list my sources, and thank those who have contributed. Thanks for reading! \n\n\n1705 - 1707 6th Rate Vessel. (UK) \n\nLength: 110 feet \nBeam: 28 feet \nDraught: 15 feet \nCompliment: 115 \nArmament of 24 guns \nDisplacement: 320 tons. \nPreviously French vessel L'Enterprise before her capture in May of 1705. Served in the Mediterranean under command of J. Paul. May 19, 1707, her new captain takes command, W. Davenport, and she saw action off of Leghorn, (Livorno) Italy. She wrecked on October 12, 1707 off of Thornton. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1709-1749 5th Rate Vessel. (UK) \n"HMS Enterprize" (sic) \nLength: 118 feet \nBeam: 32 feet \nCompliment: 190 \nArmament: 40 guns \nDisplacement: 531 tons \n4 April 1709, built at Lock, Plymouth, England. \n\n28 April 1709: Completed and launched on \n\n1709-1712: patrolled the Virginia under command of Nicholas Smith. \n\nJune 1711: expedition to St.Lawrence under Rear Admiral Sir Hovenden Walker. \n\n1712-1718: Patrolled home waters from 1712 to 1718. \n\n1718: undertook a major repair and refit. \n\n1719: destroyed depot formed at Donan Castle by the Spanish expedition to the coast of Scotland. \n\nOctober 1719: capture of Vigo by Vice Admiral Mighells. \n\n1721-1724: Patrolled off of Virginia again. \n\n20 February 1740: Renamed Liverpool, a hospital ship. \n\nSeptember 1745: decommissioned. \n\n3 April 1749: sold off for 280 pounds. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1730-1764 sloop (UK) \nUsed in War of Austrian Succession and Seven Years War. Broken up in 1764. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1738 - Enterprize, \nSmall wooden English Private passenger vessel. The following is a German translation of an immigrant registration for German and Swiss immigrants leaving for America via England, bound for the Philadelphia ports to live in Pennsylvania:" December 6, 1738, Palatines imported in the snow Enterprize, Lynell Wood Master, from London, 120 passengers." \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1743-1748 Eight Gunned Sloop. (UK) \n"HMS Enterprize" (sic) \n\nPatrolled the Mediterranean under the command of T. Henning. \n\n11 February 1744: took part in the Battle of Toulon. \n\n1748: Sold \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1759 - ? Frigate. (France) \n\n" L'Entreprise" (sic) \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterpri
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The United States Navy can trace its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established during the American Revolutionary War. The United States Constitution, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress "to provide and maintain a navy." Acting on this authority, Congress ordered the construction and manning of six frigates; one of the original six, USS Constitution, familiarly known as "Old Ironsides," survives to this day.\n\nThe War Department administered naval affairs from that year until Congress established the Department of the Navy on April 30, 1798. The Navy became part of the Department of Defense upon its establishment in 1947. The United States Navy has about 375,500 men and women.
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not all that sure, but in 1950 the british battleship Vanguard fired an eight inch reinforced base shell from a 15" gun using a double sabot and achieved a muzzle velocity of 4630 fps and a carry range of 37 nautical miles!..