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Parent topics

• Combat search and rescue [r]: Add brief definition or description}
• Search and rescue [r]: The location of those in distress from natural, accidental, or hostile causes; on-scene medical stabilization and extrication; evacuation to treatment or other safe facilities ^[e]

Subtopics

• Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. ^[e]
• Mine (naval warfare) [r]: A naval explosive weapon that waits passively for a target to come into its range, and then detonates or releases a mobile weapon once its sensors detect an appropriate target ^[e]
• Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it ^[e]

Incidents

• HMS Indefatigable [r]: Add brief definition or description
• HMS Queen Mary [r]: Add brief definition or description
• HMS Invincible (1916) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• HMS Hood (1920) [r]: British battlecruiser that exploded and sank in the Battle of the Denmark Strait (May 1941). ^[e]
• IJN Taiho [r]: Add brief definition or description
• IJN Shinano [r]: Imperial Japanese Navy vessel, laid down as a battleship of the Yamato-class but converted to an aircraft carrier; sunk on 29 November 1944 by the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) while still being finished and transferring to a safer shipyard ^[e]
• USS Franklin (CV-13) [r]: Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, in service 1944, suffered greatest combat damage of any surviving carrier March 1945, returned to port; reclassified but never modernized and did not return to first-line service; struck from Navy List in 1964 ^[e]
• USS Oriskany (CV-34) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Forrestal (CV-59) [r]: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, lead ship of Forrestal-class, in service 1955-1993 ^[e]
• USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Nimitz (CVN-68) [r]: Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, lead ship of the Nimitz-class, the main operational class of large carriers; Carrier Air Wing Eleven embarked; ship is center of Carrier Strike Group Eleven but is in overhaul for 2011 ^[e]
• USS Princeton (CG-59) [r]: A Baseline 3 (of 4) Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the United States Navy, which survived a mine explosion during the Gulf War that would have sunk larger WWII ships; test ship for the Block IV BGM-109 Tomahawk missile ^[e]
• USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) [r]: United States Navy frigate of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class, commissioned 12 April 1986, heavily damaged by an Iranian mine on 14 April 1988 ^[e]
• USS Tripoli (LPH-10) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Electronic warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Firefighting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Insensitive high explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety of Life at Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Search and rescue transponder [r]: Add brief definition or description