The MSC Sealift bringing back the ability of commercial chartered tankers ability to refuel aircraft carriers. Overseas Mykonos refuel Lincoln in the Arabian Sea after the grounding of USNS Big Horn and Stena Polaris with Truman and DeGaulle in the Mediterranean.

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The MSC Sealift bringing back the ability of commercial chartered tankers ability to refuel aircraft carriers. Overseas Mykonos refuel Lincoln in the Arabian Sea after the grounding of USNS Big Horn and Stena Polaris with Truman and DeGaulle in the Mediterranean.

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Scrapyard workers wield hammers and oxy-acetylene cutters as they dismantle the Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Roberts and her two 14-inch (356 mm)/45 caliber twin gun turrets for scrap at the Thomas W. Ward shipyard in Preston, United Kingdom, 1965.

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The United States Navy has announced a service extension for twelve Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of an early variant, pushing them beyond their anticipated 35-year service life.

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As ships in the mothball fleet began to become obsolete in the 1960s, NY wanted to convert them into drug rehab centers, MA planned to use them as garbage incinerators, and CA proposed they become sewage treatment plants. The plans proved to be too expensive.

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USS Glacier (AGB-4) (later USCGC Glacier (WAG/WAGB-4)) was a U.S. Navy, then U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker which served in the first through fifteenth Operation Deep Freeze expeditions. Glacier was the first icebreaker to make her way through the frozen Bellingshausen Sea, and most of the topography in the area is named for her crew members. When built, Glacier had the largest capacity single armature DC motors ever installed on a ship. Glacier was capable of breaking ice up to 20 feet (6.1 m) thick, and of continuous breaking of 4-foot (1.2 m) thick ice at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph).

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