Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.
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Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.
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The Royal Australian Navy had three Charles F. Adams class units constructed to their own specifications (these ships were designated the Perth class).
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Three River-class destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy were laid down in British yards, with a further three built in Australia.
On 17 February 1915, the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) passed a navy law authorising a large programme of construction for the Spanish Navy, including three destroyers of British design, the Alsedo class, to be built in Spain at the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) dockyard at Cartagena.
The Ayanami class was a destroyer class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the late 1950s.The primary purpose was anti-submarine warfare, so this class was classified as "DDK" (hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer) unofficially.
Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
Charles F. Carey, Jr. (died 1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
As he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, he engaged in the practice of law and in mining and other business enterprises.
Ultimately, however, he settled in television, directing episodes of such popular series as Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress.
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Additionally, he has also been recognized by various publications, including the Houston Chronicle for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard's strong recognition of the party's values.
A Republican, he has supported John Ashcroft, Bush Cheney '04, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Mitt Romney.
In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.
Charles Frederick Wishart (1870–1960) was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944 and who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1923 at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.
Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Charles F. Stein II (1900–1979), Baltimore historian and heraldist
Charles F. Walcott (1836–1887), American Union brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War
Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy.
The Type 45 destroyers, launched from 2006 onwards, are also known as the Daring class.
He decided that he would run at that time only if the incumbent Republican, Charlie Howard, chose not to run.
In the early 1920s, the Royal Swedish Navy operated 10 destroyers and 29 first class torpedo boats.
He was of the opinion that the superior tones of the Amati and Stradivarius instruments were due to their having been made of old and seasoned wood.
Four surviving ships from the Pacific Fleet were transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy and served as the Anshan class destroyers.
The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory in the 1930s, and collaborator with Charles F. Richter in developing the Richter Scale, 1935, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy.
They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).
The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.
They were named after British fox hunts.
The Impetuoso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy.
James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.
A highly regarded top executive and the most senior woman at Honeywell, she reports directly to its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David M. Cote.
All four have been transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy under the Kuang Hua VII program.
L and M-class destroyer or Laforey class, a class of 16 Royal Navy destroyers launched from 1939 to 1941
L and M-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched 1939–1942 and that served in World War II
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Marcilio Dias-class destroyer, three ships of the Brazilian Navy that served in World War II
The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.
Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
This design bore similarities to Syd Mead's design of the Leonov, a fictional Russian space ship that appeared in the 1984 movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
Following that assignment, he became commanding officer of the 143d Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, serving in the Mediterranean Theater and European Theater from January 1944 to January 1945.
Three Q class ships were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy upon completion, with two further ships being handed over in 1945.
Eventually, thanks to influence of newer people in the denomination such as Gordon Clark, discussions began with the Bible Presbyterian Church-Columbus Synod, which included members such as Francis Schaeffer and Jay E. Adams.
Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1898), a Ikazuchi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Russo-Japanese War
The Shirane class are also the first Japanese ships to be fitted with 3D radars, the NEC OPS-12.
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On 27 October 2009, the JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan.
Initially the shields were made from Duralumin to save weight, but these quickly corroded and had to be replaced.
Stanley T. Adams (1922–1999), American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Korean War
As a civilian, Adams lived in Alaska and worked as an administrator for the Internal Revenue Service there.
Timothy D. Adams (born 1961), Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury 2005–2007
U and V-class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943
W Adams was the first manager of Shrewsbury Town F.C. He managed the club for seven years, between 1 May 1905 and 31 May 1912, during which period the club moved from Copthorne barracks ground to the Gay Meadow site.
This problem proved fatal for Battleaxe, when she was unable to manoeuvre quickly enough to prevent herself being rammed by the frigate HMS Ursa in the Clyde in 1962.