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Minesweeper, Auxiliary patrol, mined, Thames Estuary 22 Sep 1943 HMT Ocean Reward: Dec 1939: Minesweeper, lost in collision off Dover 28 May 1940 HMT Ocean Rover: 1940: TRV, sold 1946 HMT Ocean Scout: Nov 1939: Minesweeper, torpedo recovery vessel, returned Dec 1945 HMT Ocean Spray: Jan 1940: Minesweeper, harbor service, returned Jan 1946 HMT ...
During the development of Android, Google wanted to incorporate the Java SE libraries. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt had approached Sun's president Jonathan I. Schwartz about licensing the Java libraries for use in Android. Sun offered a licensing deal of between US$30 and 50 million. Schmidt said Google would have paid for that ...
Flower-class sloop (112 ships in 4 sub-classes, launched 1914—1918) convoy sloops intended originally for minesweeping; Hunt-class minesweeper, Belvoir group (20 ships, launched 1916—1917) Ailsa twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
The No.1 class auxiliary minesweeper (第一号型掃海特務艇,, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Sōkai-Tokumutei) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. 22 vessels were planned and built in 1941–43 under the Maru Rin Programme (Ship # 251–256) and the Maru Kyū Programme (Ship # 480–495).
USS Guardian (MCM-5) was an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship of the United States Navy, and was the second Navy ship to bear that name.The hulls of the Avenger-class ships were constructed of wood with an external coat of fiberglass.
On 15 August 1941, she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted to an auxiliary minesweeper under Reserve Lieutenant Shiihara. [1] She was assigned to the Port Moresby Operation (Operation MO) tasked with the occupation of the Australian Territory of New Guinea in order to isolate Australia and New Zealand from the United ...
USS Engage (MSO-433), an Agile-class minesweeper, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named Engage. The second Engage (AM-433/MSO-433) was launched 18 June 1953 by Colberg Boat Works, Stockton, California; sponsored by Mrs. R. B. Richmond; and commissioned 29 June 1954. She was reclassified MSO-433, 7 February 1955.
The original intent of the Bangor-class minesweeper design was to provide a coastal equivalent of the Halcyon-class minesweeper; however the realities brought to light by the start of the war caused a modification of the design before construction had started.