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USS Gunason, the Glossary

USS Gunason (DE-795) a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Lieutenant Robert W. Gunason who was killed in action while serving on during the Battle of Savo Island.^[1]

48 relations: Batan Island, Battle of Savo Island, Bizerte, Boston, Caribbean, Casco Bay, Convoy, Cuba, Depth charge, Flotilla, General quarters, Guam, Guantánamo Bay, Hampton Roads, Hedgehog (weapon), Jayapura, Korea, Landing craft, Landing Craft Infantry, Length overall, Leyte, Long Beach, California, Manila, Manus Island, Mare Island, Mark 15 torpedo, Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, Okinawa Prefecture, Oran, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Pearl Harbor, Plymouth, Qingdao, Reserve fleet, San Diego, Sasebo, Ship commissioning, Stockton, California, Subic Bay, Tokyo, Tokyo Bay, Troopship, U-boat, Ulithi, Yokosuka, 1.1-inch/75-caliber gun, 3-inch/50-caliber gun.
Maritime incidents in 1973

Batan Island

Batan Island is the main island of Batanes, an archipelagic province in the Philippines.

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The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and in Japanese sources as the, and colloquially among Allied Guadalcanal veterans as the Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks, was a naval battle of the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces.

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Bizerte

Bizerte (translit) is a city of Bizerte Governorate in Tunisia.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Casco Bay

Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States.

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Convoy

A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.

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Flotilla

A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.

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General quarters

General quarters, battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a naval warship to signal that all hands (everyone available) aboard a ship must go to battle stations (the positions they are to assume when the vessel is in combat) as quickly as possible.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Guantánamo Bay

Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo) is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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Hedgehog (weapon)

The Hedgehog (also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector) was a forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon that was used primarily during the Second World War.

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Jayapura

Jayapura (formerly Hollandia) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of Papua.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Landing craft

Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.

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Landing Craft Infantry

The Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) were several classes of landing craft used by the Allies to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches during World War II.

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Length overall

Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.

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Leyte

Leyte is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Manus Island

Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.

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Mare Island

Mare Island (Spanish: Isla de la Yegua) is a peninsula in the United States in the city of Vallejo, California, about northeast of San Francisco.

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Mark 15 torpedo

The Mark 15 torpedo was the standard American destroyer-launched torpedo of World War II.

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Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Oran

Oran (Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Qingdao

Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.

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Reserve fleet

A reserve fleet is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed; they are partially or fully decommissioned.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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Sasebo

is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Subic Bay

Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about northwest of Manila Bay.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Troopship

A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime.

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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Ulithi

Ulithi (Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap, within Yap State.

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Yokosuka

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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1.1-inch/75-caliber gun

The 1.1"/75 caliber gun was an American anti-aircraft weapon of World War II, used by the United States Navy.

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3-inch/50-caliber gun

The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gunason

Also known as USS Gunason (DE 795), USS Gunason (DE-795).

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Maritime incidents in 1973

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