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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  In 1812 we sailed to war in ships my boatwrights built. I fought beside you in the deserts of our great Sout In 1918, soldier... like you. Pearl Harbor, too. Mine was the first blood spilled
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• USS Hammann (DE-131)
  ...arded the [[Medal of Honor]], when, as a pilot of a [[seaplane]] 21 August 1918, off the coast of [[Italy]], he dived down and landed next to a downed fell ...g one passage, 2 March 1945, ''Hammann'' was called upon to aid one of the ships in the convoy, [[SS Lone Jack]], after a [[torpedo]] attack. The destroyer
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  ...onor of Howard Daniel Crow who was born in [[Alvarado, Texas]], 2 February 1918, and was commissioned ensign after completing Naval Reserve Midshipman’s ...ls. In 1957, she took part in important [[NATO]] exercises with almost 50 ships from a dozen countries and in 1958 the versatile ship acted as communicatio
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of several ships sunk by the German craft. ...these recommendations were followed for ''Wainwright'' or any of the other ships of the class.
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...) lists eight torpedo tubes; the ''[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]]'' ([http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p10/porter-ii.htm link]) reports, w ...''Porter'' severely damaged the German submarine {{SMU|U-108||2}} in April 1918.
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• USS Shaw (DD-68)
  ...t Britain]] and [[Ireland]], for the most part without incident. On 1 July 1918, she received an SOS from the torpedoed American transport, {{USS|Covington On 9 October 1918, while escorting {{RMS|Aquitania||2}}, ''Shaw''{{'}}s rudder jammed just as
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• USS Monomoy (AG-40)
  |Ship owner=1918: {{USSB|first=only}}<br>before 1941: Steel Products Transportation Company, |Ship launched=29 August 1918 as ''Lake Arline''
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• USS Downes (DD-45)
  ...us attacks with no sure results and with other destroyers aided distressed ships. On two occasions her efficiency won commendations from the British Admiral [[Category:United States Navy ships transferred to the United States Coast Guard]]
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• 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 gun
  ...gagement, as no battles were fought with the German [[High Seas Fleet]] in 1918. ...n shore as coastal artillery.<ref name=NHC>{{cite web | title = Greek Navy Ships -- Lemnos | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/greece/grksh-
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• 14"/50 caliber gun
  ...they would elevate as a unit, similar to the triple turrets on other Navy ships). The 14"/50 caliber guns were designated as Mark 4 and 6, with later versi ...ater switched to the [[16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun]] in a 1917 redesign. The ships were eventually canceled in 1922 after the [[Washington Naval Treaty]] was
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• 14"/45 caliber gun
  |image= [[File:USS Texas (BB-35) 1918.JPEG|300px]] ...l 14"/45 [[caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|caliber]] gun turrets, 1918.
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• BL 12 inch Mk XI – XII naval gun
  ...bles for His Majesty's Fleet, Vol. I., 1918 9.2-Inch Guns and Above April, 1918] 2825 ft/second using 307 lb cordite MD size 45 propellant : [[Treatise on Mk XI guns were mounted in the following ships :
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• BL 12 inch Mk X naval gun
  ...er>Ramming shell on [[HMAS Australia (1911)|HMAS ''Australia'']], December 1918</center>]] Mk X Guns were mounted in the following ships which served throughout [[World War I]] :
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• BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun
  |production_date= 1912-1918 ...n Elizabeth class battleship|''Queen Elizabeth'' class battleship]]s (Five ships with eight guns each)
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• BL 4.7 inch /45 naval gun
  |service=1918 - 1945 ...a metric 120 mm gun) was a British medium-velocity naval gun introduced in 1918 for destroyers, to counter a new generation of heavily-armed destroyers Ger
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• BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VII
  |caption=On [[:en:HMAS Australia (1911)|HMAS ''Australia'']], 1918 ...It was also used as a defensive weapon on [[Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships]] (DEMS) during the [[Second World War]].<ref name=Warship53/>
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• BL 5.5 inch Mark I naval gun
  ...HMS ''Hood''. A total of 81 guns were made and were used on the following ships *2 guns from [[HMS Hood (1918)|HMS ''Hood'']], on [[Ascension Island]]
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• BL 6 inch Mk VII naval gun
  |service=1901 - 1972 (Fort Scratchley) <br>1915 - 1918 (field use) ...capital ship]]s, [[cruiser]]s, [[monitor (warship)|monitor]]s, and smaller ships such as the [[Insect class gunboat]] which served throughout [[World War II
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• BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun
  ...humb|left|<center>Gunners wearing gas masks load a gun on [[HMAS Adelaide (1918)|HMAS ''Adelaide]], October 1939. The man at left carries a [[cordite]] [[B Guns were mounted in the following ships :
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• BL 6 inch Mk XI naval gun
  Guns were mounted in the following ships : * Monitor [[HMS Marshal Ney|HMS ''Marshal Ney'']] as re-gunned in 1918
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