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Brown water operations
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Naval activity along the littoral in navigable riverine and estuarine areas and extending perhaps 150 kilometers (about 100 miles) offshore. this is the area in which navies interact with land forces, coastal traffic, and much of a nation’s economic activity by making close offshore and inshore approaches to hostile or friendly land masses. see also blue water, green water, and littoral operations. brunswick’s “kraken”: shortly after world war ii, captain arne gr?annings?ter reported that, during the 1930s, the royal norwegian navy’s auxiliary tanker brunswick had been attacked three times off samoa by a giant squid. in each case the creature had pulled alongside, paced the ship for a while and then, possibly mistaking it for a whale, wrapped its tentacles around the hull and attempted to overturn or pull the vessel down. it eventually slipped off the greasy steel plates and was minced by the ship’s propellers, but might well have succeeded if it had attacked a wooden vessel of one-tenth the burden. this story raises three questions. • how could the creature have mistaken a 15,000 ton tanker for a 200 ton whale? • why did a (presumably) sound-sensitive animal ignore the noise of brunswick’s propulsion system to approach the ship? • why did captain gr?annings?ter wait two decades before reporting the incident? the first two remain open, but it seems reasonable to assume that the captain waited until retirement, fear- 55 brunswick’s ing ridicule that would harm his naval career. (see also kraken, monsters of the deep, and the appendix.)
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Approaches, английский
The trenches, zig-zags, saps, and other works, by which a besieger makes good his way up to a fortified place. (see trenches.)
Operations, английский
- Research, incorporated фирма «оперейшнз ресерч ивкорпо- рейтед»
- Field movements, whether offensive or defensive.
- Операционный отдел (в инвестиционном банке)
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Bugeye, английский
A chesapeake bay oyster dredger, descended from both the log canoe and the baltimore clipper. about 60 feet (18 m) long, with a graceful clipper bow, ample midship section, and sharp stern. it was originally built of nine long logs, but later used frame and planking construction. two tall masts, raked sharply aft, carried sails that were sharp-headed long before marconi rig was introduced.
Brown shirt, английский
Personnel working on a usn aircraft carrier flight deck wear colored shirts for easy identification. brown shirts are worn by plane captains and flight deck petty officers. brown-shoe: former usn slang for officers in naval aviation (cf. black-shoe). seldom used since khakis were introduced and all officers wear brown shoes.
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