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Recent Examples of warship
That carrier had originally been deployed in the Indo-Pacific but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the warship to the Middle East in August to bolster the U.S. presence and to deter Iran and its regional proxies including the Houthis.
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Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
One high-profile incident in 2021 involved the faking of British warship positions by an unknown actor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article Half of the amphibious warships the Navy uses to transport and land Marines — including many based in San Diego — are in poor condition, hurting the service’s ability to deploy infantry, the U.S. General Accountability Office says in a new report.
—Gary Robbins, The Mercury News, 9 Dec. 2024
Also on Thursday, a Chinese warship with the bow number 552 was spotted about 50 nautical miles (58 miles) off the coast of Zambales province in Luzon, the Philippines' most populous island.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
One high-profile incident in 2021 involved the faking of British warship positions by an unknown actor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article Half of the amphibious warships the Navy uses to transport and land Marines — including many based in San Diego — are in poor condition, hurting the service’s ability to deploy infantry, the U.S. General Accountability Office says in a new report.
—Gary Robbins, The Mercury News, 9 Dec. 2024
Also on Thursday, a Chinese warship with the bow number 552 was spotted about 50 nautical miles (58 miles) off the coast of Zambales province in Luzon, the Philippines' most populous island.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
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The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hartley offers a fascinating account of the logistics of navigating the Volga before the introduction of steamships, including the herculean work of barge haulers, who had to drag boats upstream.Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
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Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Authorities said at the time that their initial findings showed a Chinese fishing vessel and a Chinese freighter caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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There is a castle, an annual Shakespeare festival, a boat club (barges, mainly, given that Staffordshire has more miles of canal than any other county in England) and two semi-professional football clubs.Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
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Chilling temperatures signaled its return, but so did an important annual ritual: the last barge heading downriver from the Twin Cities, bringing the 2024 shipping season to an end.Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
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Nic Lynn, Neptune Aviation’s vice president of operations, said three of the company's air tankers are in use in Southern California.Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
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News journal Lloyd's List reported in December that the tanker is part of a fleet circumventing sanctions on Russian trading.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
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The Pentagon expected the warship to be operational in the first half of 2025. What To Know Photos taken by Chinese ship spotters showed the Fujian returned to Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where it was constructed in 2017 and launched, from its sixth sea trial.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Inbound ship convoys from Europe were told to keep an eye out.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Taiwan launched its Kuang Hua VI fast attack missile boats and Tuo Chiang-class corvettes on Thursday in an attempt to deter an invasion from China amid Beijing's ongoing military activity in the Taiwan Strait, according to the AP.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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The arrival of the Ufa and Alatau came less than a week after three corvettes and a support vessel of Russia on Thursday as part of their Asia-Pacific deployment.Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warship. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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