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United States NavyThe United States Navy is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. | |||
The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on October 13, 1775 by authorizing the procurement, fitting out, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America. The legislation also established a Naval Committee to supervise the work. All together, the Continental Navy numbered some fifty ships over the course of the war, with approximately twenty warships active at its maximum strength.
After the American War for Independence, Congress sold the surviving ships of the Continental Navy and released the seamen and officers. The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress "to provide and maintain a navy." Acting on this authority, Congress ordered the construction and manning of six frigates on March 27, 1794 and in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution went into service.
The War Department administered naval affairs from that year until Congress established the Department of the Navy on April 30, 1798.
The names of combat ships of the US Navy all start with USS, meaning 'United States Ship'. Non-combat, civilian-manned vessels of the US Navy have names that begin with USNS, standing for 'United States Navy Ship'.
The US Navy uses a letter based Hull classification symbol to designate a vessel's type.
Modern large ships use nuclear reactors for power. See United States Naval reactor for information on classification schemes and the history of nuclear powered vessels.
(See List of ships of the United States Navy for a more complete listing.)
Aircraft carriers are the major strategic arm of the Navy. They put US air power within reach of most land-based military power.
Submarines are the other major strategic arm of the Navy as they can be used directly to control naval and shipping activity by other powers as well as serving as missile-launching platforms.
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Early Vessels
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on shore.
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ceased to persecute him took possession of his mind.
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Alexandria, after his departure from Proclus's banquet, she had desisted
uninjured when he was already standing upon the verge of an abyss, and a
gulf?
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appeared to him in forms as radiant and friendly as in the days of his
canal and the Bitter Lakes, he recalled the visible world to his memory
gazed at him from his golden chariot, drawn by four horses, and
foam of the azure waves. Demeter, in the form of Daphne, appeared,
grain fields and bestowing peace beside the domestic hearth. The whole
his own breast.
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