USS Velocity (AM-128) — was an Auk class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. Velocity , an oceangoing minesweeper, was the second warship to bear the name… … Wikipedia
USS Velocity (1862) — was a captured British schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with… … Wikipedia
Velocity (disambiguation) — Velocity can mean: * Velocity in physics * Speed * Velocity (biochemistry), a subject of Michaelis Menten kinetics in biochemistry. * Velocity (novel), by US author Dean Koontz * Velocity (newspaper), a weekly alternative newspaper in Louisville … Wikipedia
USS Zeal (AM-131) — was an sclass|Auk|minesweeper that served in both World War II and during the Korean War. As a steel hulled fleet minesweeper, she was assigned to support the fleet by removing enemy mines whose purpose was to impede the path of the U.S. Pacific… … Wikipedia
USS Grayling (SSN-646) — USS Grayling (SSN 646), a Sturgeon class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayling, a fresh water game fish closely related to the trout. Her keel was laid down at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in… … Wikipedia
USS 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… … Wikipedia
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) — was a Skipjack class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy, and the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was declared lost on June 5, 1968,cite web |date=2007 |url = http://www.submarinehistory.com/Scorpion.html|title =… … Wikipedia
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) — Career (US) … Wikipedia
USS New London (1859) — was a screw steamer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted with a Parrott rifle and 32 pounders, and was assigned as a gunboat in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. Built in Connecticut in … Wikipedia
USS Nields (DD-616) — was a Benson class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Henry C. Nields. Nields was laid down on 15 June 1942 by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Fore River, Massachusetts; launched on 1 October 1942; sponsored… … Wikipedia
