USS Amphitrite (BM-2) — Early ServiceThe second USS Amphitrite the lead ship in her class of iron hulled, twin screw monitors was laid down in 1874 at Wilmington, DE, by the Harlan and Hollingsworth yard; launched on 7 June 1883; sponsored by Miss Nellie Benson, the… … Wikipedia
USS Amphitrite (ARL-29) — The USS Amphitrite (ARL 29) was one of 39 Achelous class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Amphitrite (in Greek mythology, the wife of Neptune and the daughter of Oceanus), she was the… … Wikipedia
USS Vixen (PY-4) — USS Vixen Banderas Historial Astillero Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, New Jersey … Wikipedia Español
USS Koka (1865) — USS Koka a single turreted, twin screw monitor was launched 18 May 1865 by Wilcox Whiting, Camden, NJ. She was a Casco class, light draft monitor intended for service in the shallow bays, rivers, and inlets of the Confederacy. These warships… … Wikipedia
Amphitrite — In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη) (not to be confused with Aphrodite) was a sea goddess. [Compare the North Syrian Atargatis.] Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was… … Wikipedia
USS Tonawanda (1864) — The USS Tonawanda a double turreted coastal monitor built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard was launched on 6 May 1864; and commissioned on 12 October 1865, Commander William Ronckendorff in command.The Tonawanda was designed by Chief of Naval… … Wikipedia
USS Terror (BM-4) — USS Terror (Monitor No. 4) the totally rebuilt version of the earlier monitor USS Agamenticus , which had shared the Terror s name was an iron hulled, twin screw, double turreted monitor, laid down in 1874 at Philadelphia, Pa., by William Cramp… … Wikipedia
USS Triton (SSRN-586) — USS Triton (SSRN/SSN 586), a U.S. Navy nuclear powered radar picket submarine, was the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth, accomplishing this during her shakedown cruise in early 1960. She also has the distinction… … Wikipedia
USS Alsea (ATF-97) — USS Alsea (AT 97) was an Abnaki class of fleet ocean tug. It was named after the Alsea Native American tribe in Oregon.ervice Alsea was laid down on 29 November 1942, at Charleston, South Carolina, by the Charleston Shipbuilding Drydock Company;… … Wikipedia
USS Terror — may refer to:* Terror , a screw tug built in 1861 at St. Louis, Missouri; transferred to the U.S. Navy on 30 September 1862 and renamed USS|Ivy|1862 *, a Miantonomah class monitor originally commissioned as Agamenticus , 5 May 1864; broken up… … Wikipedia
