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were based on the 1780-vintage Perseverance class, which displaced around 900 ... frigate was assumed first by the protected cruiser and then by the destroyer. ...

A kamikaze hit the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, on October ... 200 sailors on Princeton and 80 on the cruiser USS Birmingham which was ...

Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser while losing a carrier and ... as the ship's band played "California, Here I Come." ...

In 1878, the Japanese cruiser Seiki sailed to Europe with an entirely ... Sasō Sachū along the lines of the Elswick class of protected cruisers, but ...

USS California was hit by two bombs and two torpedoes. The crew might ... did not ignore other targets. The light cruiser USS Helena was torpedoed ...

manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. The factory was an old ... at the final race of the season at the California Speedway. The next year ...

In the Boy Scouts he achieved the rank of First Class Scout. ... Naval Academy, from which he graduated in the Class of 1941. ...

|url-status=live including the cruiser Aurora—a symbol of the ... Architecture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. ISBN 0-520-06929-3 ...