Word: flagship
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...Name. The Colorado is the third of her name. The first Colorado was a 3,400-ton steam screw frigate, named after the Colorado River. During the Civil War she took part in the blockade first of the Gulf and later the Atlantic Coast, and served as flagship of the first division of the North Atlantic Squadron. She was sold in 1886. The second Colorado was an armored cruiser of 13,680 tons, launched in 1903. She served with the Atlantic Fleet, and later became flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She had been named after tne State of Colorado...
Headed by the dreadnought Arkansas, flagship of Rear Admiral Archibald H. Scales, the battleships Florida, Delaware and North Dakota arrived in Copenhagen for a ten-day visit...
Among the number will be 14 dreadnoughts. The Maryland (now completing her big gun calibration tests off the Virginia capes) is expected to reach the Pacific by that time and to act as flagship...
Another anti-Fascismo incident occurred in Northern Italy when Colonel Rossetti interrupted a Fascist meeting with cries of "Viva I'Italia libera" and "A basso il Fascismo!" He was then manhandled by the crowd, who subsequently discovered that their victim was the man who sank the Viribus Unitis (flagship of the Austrian navy) single-handed during the war. Rossetti speaking of this experience said: "I was treated by the Austrians with all the honors of war when I was their prisoner, but when I breathe the sacred word Liberta, all I get from my own countrymen is kicks...
Following the review of the United States Fleet in the Pacific, off the Panama Canal, by Secretary Denby and his party aboard the transport Henderson, battle maneuvers began. The Secretary went aboard Admiral Hilary P. Jones' flagship, the Maryland...