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USS Hamul, the Glossary

USS Hamul (AD-20) was the lead ship of a class of two destroyer tenders; she was most likely named after ''Hamal'', the brightest star in the constellation Aries.^[1]

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Destroyer tenders of the United States
Hamul-class destroyer tenders
Type C3 ships

Aries (constellation)

Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Benicia, California

Benicia is a city in Solano County, California, located on the north bank of the Carquinez Strait in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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--> The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

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Bora Bora

Bora Bora (French: Bora-Bora; Tahitian: Pora Pora) is an island group in the Leeward Islands in the South Pacific.

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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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Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Navy Yard (originally known as the New York Navy Yard) is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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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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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.

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Destroyer tender

A destroyer tender or destroyer depot ship is a type of depot ship: an auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships.

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Enewetak Atoll

Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Ānewetak,, or Āne-wātak,; known to the Japanese as Brown Atoll or Brown Island; ブラウン環礁) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 296 people (as of 2021) forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.

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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a United States shipyard in New Jersey active from 1917 to 1948.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Hamal

Hamal, designated Alpha Arietis (α Arietis, abbreviated Alpha Ari, α Ari), is the brightest star in the northern zodiacal constellation of Aries.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Iceland in World War II

At the beginning of World War II, Iceland was a sovereign kingdom in personal union with Denmark, with King Christian X as head of state.

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Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima, officially romanized and pronounced Iōtō (い, literally: "Sulfur Island"), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together with them make up the Ogasawara Archipelago.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny is a town in the western part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a suburb of Newark.

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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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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Lead ship

The lead ship, name ship, or class leader is the first of a series or class of ships that are all constructed according to the same general design.

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Lykes Brothers Steamship Company

Lykes Bros.

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Maritime administrations

Maritime administrations, or flag state administrations, are the executive arms/state bodies of each government responsible for carrying out the shipping responsibilities of the state, and are tasked to administer national shipping and boating issues and laws within their territorial waters and for vessels flagged in that country, or that fall under their jurisdiction.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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National Defense Reserve Fleet

The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) consists of ships of the United States, mostly merchant vessels, that have been mothballed but can be activated within 20 to 120 days to provide shipping during national military emergencies, or non-military emergencies such as commercial shipping crises.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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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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References

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

Also known as SS Doctor Lykes, SS Sea Panther (1940), USS Hamul (AD-20), USS Hamul (AK-30).

, Submarine, Suisun Bay, Taiwan, Type C3-class ship, Ulithi, United Kingdom, World War II, 3-inch/50-caliber gun, 5-inch/38-caliber gun.

USS Hamul, the Glossary

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See also

Destroyer tenders of the United States

Hamul-class destroyer tenders

Type C3 ships

References