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  • 21Hamelin Bay, Western Australia — Hamelin Bay is a bay and a locality on the south west coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is named after French explorer Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin who sailed through the area in about 1801. It is south of …

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  • 22USS Monadnock (1864) — The first USS Monadnock , a twin‑screw, wooden‑hull, double turreted, ironclad monitor was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA, in 1862; launched 23 March 1863; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 4 October 1864, Captain John… …

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  • 23S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 — was an ill fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée (1854 ndash;97), [Andrée, christened Salomon August, invariably went by his initials as an adult.] the first Swedish balloonist, proposed …

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  • 24USS Mona Island (ARG-9) — was: Laid down, 10 April 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (EC2 S C1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2634) at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.; Launched, 11 May 1944; Acquired by the U.S. Navy from the …

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  • 25USS Moreno (AT-87) — was a sclass2|Navajo|fleet tug constructed for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her purpose was to aid ships, usually by towing, on the high seas or in combat or post combat areas, plus other duties as assigned. She served in the Atlantic Ocean …

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  • 26RepaNet — is an environmental and employment creation project based in Graz, Austria. It was part of a development partnership within the EQUAL Community Initiative, part of the European Union s Structural Funds. It is notable for the way it combines three …

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  • 27USS Victoria (AO-46) — The second USS Victoria was originally built in 1917 as the steel hulled, single screw tanker George G. Henry . Constructed at San Francisco, California, by Union Iron Works, the ship was chartered by the United States Navy from her original… …

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  • 28USS Villalobos (PG-42) — was a steel screw gunboat originally built for the Spanish Navy as the SPS Villalobos but captured by the United States Army during the Philippine American War and recommissioned into the United States Navy. The ship spent almost all of her life… …

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  • 29USS American Legion (APA-17) — was a sclass|Harris|attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. A steel hulled, twin screw passenger and cargo steamship, the vessel was laid down as Badger State on 10 January 1919 under a United States Shipping Board… …

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  • 30USS William Ward Burrows (AP-6) — was a transport ship that saw service with the US Navy in World War II. Santa Rita a twin screw, steel hulled, passenger and cargo motorship launched in May 1929 at Copenhagen, Denmark, by Burmeister and Wain was built for the Grace Steamship… …

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