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2. Binnacle - Wikipedia

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   Binnacle. A binnacle (/ ˈbɪnəkəl /) is a waist-high case or stand on the deck of a ship, generally mounted in front of the helmsman, in which navigational instruments are placed for easy and quick reference as well as to protect the delicate instruments. Its traditional purpose was to hold the ship's magnetic compass, mounted in gimbals to ...

3. Missing man table - Wikipedia

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   A missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, [1] is a ceremony and memorial that is set up in military dining facilities of the United States Armed Forces and during official dining functions, in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members. [2] The table serves as the focal point of ceremonial remembrance ...

4. Factory ship - Wikipedia

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   The German factory ship Kiel NC 105. A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers, and their use for fishing has grown dramatically.

5. Monitor (Vietnam War) - Wikipedia

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   They also mounted additional weaponry—a 40mm gun turret forward and an 81mm mortar amidships—and carried four additional sailors to help man those weapons and operate the boat. The 81mm mortar was the only indirect-fire weapon fielded by River Flotilla 1 and, with the assistance of an artillery observer, could hit targets up to 4,000 yards ...

6. Layout hunting - Wikipedia

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   Layout boat. A layout boat is a low-profile un-motorized oval-like boat that is used by diver duck hunters to hide in when hunting in open water. They are unique to a specialized form of waterfowl hunting called Layout hunting. Most layout boats are used for diver duck or ocean duck hunting where open deep water waterfowl species frequent.

7. Clean sweep (naval) - Wikipedia

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   Clean sweep (naval) A broom on the USS Wahoo, Pearl Harbor, 1943. A "clean sweep" for a naval vessel is having "swept the enemy from the seas", a completely successful mission. It is traditionally indicated by hanging a broom from a mast or lashing it to the periscope of a submarine.