Word: uss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid conflicting reports about whether Iranrecovered the flight recorder from the downed A300Airbus, the White House said anew that Capt. WillC. Rogers III, commander of the USS Vincennes,took "justifiable defensive actions" to protecthimself against feared attack by an Iranian F-14warplane...
...year-old USS Bonefish, its remaining crew evacuated to shore bases, floated alongside the frigate USS McCloy about 160 miles off the Florida coast, said Chief Petty Officer Terry D. Borton, a spokesman at Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk...
...decision made was that no one goes aboard" until a specialized submarine rescue ship, the USS Petrel, arrived later in the day, Borton said...
...frigate USS Carr, which also was part of the training exercise, took aboard 89 of the Bonefish's 92 crewmen. The McCloy, which also was training nearby, reached the Bonefish before nightfall, the Navy said...
Also steaming to the scene and expected to arrive today was the salvage ship USS Hoist from the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk...