Word: warship
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...wanted to make sure the ceremony marking his death would be no less private. So, with Ted's help, she arranged to have John buried even farther from the mainland, his ashes and those of Carolyn and Lauren Bessette committed to the deep from the deck of an American warship. Seventeen relatives arrived at Woods Hole at 9 a.m. to be taken by the cutter Sanibel to the U.S.S. Briscoe, which had steamed up from Virginia overnight by special request of the Secretary of Defense. The only things those left onshore could see were the bright whites of the officials...
...only does Boston host the country's oldest military post--it's got the world's oldest warship as well. A hundred and seventy-five feet long, with copper and brass work done by the Paul Revere, the USS Constitution is actually still under U.S. naval commission. But anyone can tour it for free, with uniformed sailors who can answer questions. They even fire off the ship's 42 guns twice a day, at 8 a.m. and sunset. Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown. (617) 242-5670. T-stop: Haymarket (then take the No. 92 or 93 bus to the Navy Yard...
...class of warship is more than a maritime mirage: this week President Clinton will unveil a defense budget for next year that includes a cool $1 billion for the vessels, as well as a recommendation to speed up their production. The fleet is ultimately expected to cost $63.7 billion and serve as the leading edge of a 50-attack-sub armada that the Navy wants for the 21st century. (A separate class of 18 strategic submarines, which serve as platforms for intercontinental ballistic missiles, will be downsized to 14.) But there is a growing sense that these new subs, designed...
...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...
...beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried to enter the lagoon...