U.S. Navy Ships
“I saw these ships come sailing in...”
Ships in U.S. naval history
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USS Ronald Reagan Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective  When the Bridge pipes “Man the Rail”, there’s a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 4.5 acres. Her displacement is 100,000 tons with full complement. Capability Top speed exceeds 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling. 1. Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years 2. Carries over 80 combat aircraft 3. Three arresting cables can stop a 28-ton aircraft going 150 miles per hour in less than 400 feet Size 1. Towers 20 stories above the waterline 2. 1092 feet long - nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall 3. Flight deck covers 4.5 acres 4. 4 bronze propellers, each 21 feet across, weighing 66,200 pounds 5. 2 rudders, each 29 by 22 feet, weighing 50 tons 6. 4 high speed aircraft elevators, each over 4,000 square feet Capacity 1. Home to 6,000 Navy personnel 2. Carries enough food and supplies to operate for 90 days 3. 18,150 meals served daily 4. Distillation plants provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water from sea water daily, enough for 2,000 homes 5. Nearly 30,000 light fixtures, 1,325 miles of cable, and 1,400 telephones 6. 14,000 pillowcases and 28,000 sheets USS Jimmy Carter  The USS Jimmy Carter is a secret aircraft carrier, based on Canada’s STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) technology. It’s so secret that noone knows whether it did “takeoff.” USS William Jefferson Clinton  The USS William Jefferson Clinton set sail today from its home port of Vancouver, B.C. The ship is the first of its kind in the Navy and is a standing legacy to President Bill Clinton “for his foresight in military budget cuts” and his conduct while formerly holding the office of President. The ship is constructed nearly entirely from recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots. It boasts an arsenal comprised of one unarmed F14 Tomcat or one unarmed F18 Hornet aircraft which, although they cannot be launched from the 100 foot flight deck, form a very menacing presence. As a standing order, there are no firearms allowed on board. This crew, like the crew aboard the USS Jimmy Carter, is specially trained to avoid conflicts and appease any and all enemies of the United States at all costs. An onboard Type One DNC Universal Translator can send out messages of apology in any language to anyone who may find America offensive. The number of apologies are limitless and though some may seem hollow and disingenuous, the Navy advises all apologies will sound very sincere. In times of conflict, the USS Clinton has orders to seek refuge in Canada. USS Barack Hussein Obama  Details are vague. But don’t worry - he has a plan. All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest. - Jorge Luis Borges I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet Oh my. Space travel sounds rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me on one of those dreadful Star Ships. - C-3PO Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien see also History, Military & Ship Sections Canada’s Secret Aircraft Carrier Defence Budget Cuts
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