Navy

A warship at sea functions like a huge sea creature in respect of a majority of its functions. For example, there is a need for a ship to see, listen, and communicate; it uses Radars, Sonars and Communication equipment for these tasks. The overall goal of the warship is to identify and eliminate the threats arising at sea, thus all the equipment on board a warship is required to function in unison to achieve this aim. Emphasis in this article would be on Communication equipment, discussion on technological aspects of Radars and Sonars would be limited to essentials

In modern historiography, Sasanian Iran is commonly perceived as a land power. However, various primary sources indicate that the Sasanian navy played an important role in the military efforts of the Persians in late antiquity. The Sasanian navy was established to ensure the external security of the Persian state by exerting control over the sea lanes in the Persian Gulf region, and based on the aspiration of the Sasanid authorities to enhance their military and political, as well as commercial, influence in the northern part of the Indian Ocean. The most dynamic phase of the Persian navy’s activities occurred during the reign of Khosrow Anushirwan (531–579 CE), when fleet operations enabled the Persians to conquer Yemen and there was an attempt to establish the navy in the Black Sea basin. The last phase of Sasanian naval activity took place during the Byzantine–Persian war of 602–628 CE. In this conflict, the Persian fleet initially achieved some success in the Mediterranean Sea, ...

“On 16th February 1804 an American brig, the Intrepid, commanded by Stephen Decatur, taking advantage both of the darkness and the offshore wind, approached the Philadelphia Frigate, which had just been refloated, captured the guards and set it on fire”. This was happening in the middle of a winterly month, in 1804, in a place which was definitely uncommon,
the harbour of Tripoli, but certainly appears somewhat singular that an American brig set fire to an American frigate with its 36 cannons.

San Diego did not easily become the home port of America’s
Pacific fleet. It was two decades after the US acquisition of the Philippines,
Guam, and Hawai‘i before a combination of imperialist naval strategy,
Japanese expansionism, the Great White Fleet, unrest in Mexico and Central
America, the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-California
Exposition, a supportive congressman, and energetic civic leadership coalesced
on the issue. Together, these factors led to the establishment of major
naval facilities in this southern California city.

With this new publication the Zea Harbour Project team continues a venerable scholarly tradition.This tradition includes a number of eminent archaeologists, beginning with Curtius, von Alten, Dörpfeldt, and Dragatsis; the most prominent in current times is Dr Steinhauer.2 Bjørn Lovén also continues a time-honoured Danish tradition of research in Greek architecture, one part of which is closely linked to the Piraeus. I am referring to the Danish architect Vilhelm Marstrand, whose 1922 doctoral dissertation Arsenalet i Piraeus og Oldtidens Byggeregler offered a detailed reconstruction of Philon’s Arsenal and of the architectural principles underlying its construction (Fig. 1).3 Philon’s Arsenal, or properly Philon’s Skeuothêkê (“Storehouse”), was built in or shortly after 347 BC. Replacing a number of older and less grandiose structures, this new building was henceforward to house all the “hanging equipment” (kremasta skeuê) of the Athenian warships, i.e. ropes, sails, etc.4 Having no...

The expansion of India’s role as a security provider in the Indian Ocean region has aroused much interest in recent years. Many inside and outside India see great potential for India, and particularly the Indian Navy, to play a positive role in enhancing the region’s security in the context of India’s rise as a major power. Over the last several decades, India has developed good security relationships in the Indian Ocean, particularly with island or small littoral states such as Mauritius, Seychelles and Madagascar in the southwest Indian Ocean, Oman and Qatar in the Persian Gulf, the Maldives in the central Indian Ocean and Singapore in the east. India is now seen as a key security provider to, and even a security guarantor of, several of these states. However, the history of India’s strategic role in the Indian Ocean has not been the subject of a great deal of study. This article will examine India’s previously undisclosed interventions in the Seychelles in 1986, which acted as a ...

© 2007 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2007 The Nautical Archaeology Society 217 work of marine archaeologists. By contrast James Nicholas’s 1964 classic The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi has been re-issued by Percheron Press of New York (ISBN 09752738-5-X) with a new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III as part of Texas A&M University’s excavation of the wreck of the British-built blockade-runner Denbigh just outside Galveston (see IJNA 36.2: 455, and review of Schooner Sail to Starboard, this issue). To complement the examination of the physical remains of the ship new research has uncovered cargo manifests, shipping records and the whole issue of military supply in the Trans-Mississippi theatre of war. War produces specialised ships, and ensures that many of them are left for later research. Few were more remarkable than the Civil War blockade-runners.

The Empire of Nicaea was a successor of the Byzantium shattered in 1204. In the newly established state marine traditions of Byzantines, remain alive. The best testimony to this, are the evidence contained in the chronicle of Georgios Akropolites, devoted to activities of the rulers of Nicaea, aimed to build their own naval forces. In this paper I'll also try to answer, where was beating the heart of the Nicean shipbuilding industry and how large was the navy of this state. This is important from point of view of the maritime history, because of the fleet of the Empire of Nicaea, filled the gap created after the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, which was the local naval power in previous centuries. Akropolites give us a clear and direct answer to a question, where we should search for a center of Nicaean shipbuilding industry. Georgios Akropolites suggest us, that was in two towns, Holkos and Smyrna. The above-mentioned fleet consisted of the few squadrons, each ...

A deployed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is a hazardous environment where work and recreation intermingle. Injuries causing time lost from assigned duties may impact aviation safety and operational readiness. This descriptive study examines injuries sustained on the flight deck, in the hangar bay, or in the gym of a deployed aircraft carrier, focusing on those injuries resulting in lost duty days. Injuries recorded by the ship's medical department were analyzed, relating lost duty injuries to the following parameters: division, rank, time of day, location of injury event, whether injury was job-related or recreational, type of recreational activity, and mechanism, type, and anatomic site of injury. During a 6-mo deployment, 335 injuries occurred in the shipboard locations studied. More than one-third (36%) of these injuries resulted in lost duty time, accounting for 768 man-days of lost duty during the deployment. Recreational injuries represented 19% of all injuries, but 25% of al...

Submarines are a highly-charged topic in German history of war, and they have created a myth persistent until today. Already during World War I, the submarines became the symbol of an invincible weapon in German thinking. Books and films were issued that glorified this clandestine and mortal weapon. With the Cold War, the myth began to spread far beyond Europe. nuclear submarines carried the responsibility for the world’s safety – but also for the highest risks in the mutual military threats. Mystified and mainly unknown in their days, u-boat missions have become part of the cultural memory through film: the submarine film has become an important genre in American, English, German, and Russian film (it is shown in relation to the dominant genre theories that u-boat films constitute a genre of their own).
The book sketches the relevance of the submarine for 20th-century war history (First and Second World Wars, Cold War, asymmetric warfare from the 1990s onwards) and its rendering in film. First of all, The Boat and its music are analyzed in detail, then a selection out of the more than 100 submarine films is presented, covering German and American films from 1933 to 2006 and giving insights into the characteristic blurring of genres in the submarine film. In the final part of the book, the commercialization of the submarine myth is discussed, with an analyses of computer games, documentaries, film trailers and DVD menus. It is concluded that the submarine myth, originally created as a tool of propaganda via the media, literature, and radio, has been intensified and universalized through film, thus becoming valid up to the present time.

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe behaviors that exemplary Navy submarine commanders practice to lead their command through turbulent times using the leadership attributes of personal temperament, concern for the collective interest, resilience, and moral purpose. Methodology: This phenomenological study explored the specific leadership behaviors of personal temperament, concern for the collective interest, resilience, and moral purpose that occur during turbulent times by analyzing in-depth interviews with exemplary United States Navy Submarine Commanding Officers. The study sample for this research is ten Groton, Connecticut area United States Navy submarine commanding officers who have at least fifteen years of service. They all actively commanded a submarine during the Global War on Terrorism from September 2001 to December 2009. Each was personally awarded the Meritorious Service Medal or above for the performance of their duties while holding ...

The lessons learned from recent combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown operational commanders that the military fitness tests currently used by the different services are inadequate in terms of assessing the physical fitness required for combat. Currently, only the U.S. Marine Corps employs a combat specific fitness test; although the U.S. Army and Air Force have recognized the need and rationale for one as well. Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy continues to lag behind the other services in terms of modernizing its physical fitness training and testing programs. The purpose of this article is four-fold: 1) justify the need for service-specific combat fitness tests, 2) discuss past and current examples servicespecific combat fitness tests, 3) introduce a revised general fitness test intended to replace the current Navy Physical Readiness Test (PRT), and 4) propose an operational fitness test that could be adopted and employed by the U.S. Navy. Commander David Peterson curre...

Piracy and threats from non-state actors in the Gulf of Aden have triggered states to cooperate in securing waterways and the sea lines of communication, a development that is fundamentally transforming the region's maritime security environment. As a result, not only has this region's strategic importance been reaffirmed, but it has also gained tremendous importance through the presence of several actors, especially China and India. Since 2008, these two countries have been involved in larger global actions against piracy, which has led to increasing contact between their navies and more exposure of their capabilities. Will the broader Indian Ocean region emerge as an area of cooperation or competition between China and India? Drawing on interviews carried out with Chinese and European experts from 2012 to 2015, this article explores the reasons for and instruments of cooperation in antipiracy and the degree to which China uses antipiracy efforts as confidence-building meas...

O ahvalde, klasik kuvvet yapısı ve konvansiyonel hazırlıklar bizi kurtarabilir mi? Cevabı Büyükelçi (E) Osman Korutürk’ün şu cümlelerinde arayalım: “Şurası bir gerçektir ki, Türkiye’de Deniz Gücü ne yazık ki hiçbir zaman ülkenin savunma diyagramında sahip olması gereken bir konumda olamamıştır.

A deployed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is a hazardous environment where work and recreation intermingle. Injuries causing time lost from assigned duties may impact aviation safety and operational readiness. This descriptive study examines injuries sustained on the flight deck, in the hangar bay, or in the gym of a deployed aircraft carrier, focusing on those injuries resulting in lost duty days. Injuries recorded by the ship's medical department were analyzed, relating lost duty injuries to the following parameters: division, rank, time of day, location of injury event, whether injury was job-related or recreational, type of recreational activity, and mechanism, type, and anatomic site of injury. During a 6-mo deployment, 335 injuries occurred in the shipboard locations studied. More than one-third (36%) of these injuries resulted in lost duty time, accounting for 768 man-days of lost duty during the deployment. Recreational injuries represented 19% of all injuries, but 25% of all lost duty injuries, a statistically significant contribution to lost duty time when compared to job-related injuries (p = 0.04). The sports of basketball, volleyball, and football were more likely than other recreational activities to cause injuries resulting in lost duty time (p = 0.01). Musculoskeletal injuries, particularly injuries involving the lower extremity, neck, and back, were also associated with increased risk of lost duty time (p < 0.001). Although recreational injuries are less frequent than job-related injuries in the study population, they contribute disproportionately to lost duty time. Injury prevention in similar environments should address recreational as well as work-related activities.

San Diego did not easily become the home port of America’s Pacific fleet. It was two decades after the US acquisition of the Philippines, Guam, and Hawai‘i before a combination of imperialist naval strategy, Japanese expansionism, the Great White Fleet, unrest in Mexico and Central America, the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-California Exposition, a supportive congressman, and energetic civic leadership coalesced on the issue. Together, these factors led to the establishment of major naval facilities in this southern California city.

This article presents the results of a multiyear project begun in 2015 at the Saintes Bay Wreck site, French West Indies (FWI), funded by the Département des recherches archéologiques subaquatiques et sous-marines (DRASSM, Department of Submarine and Undersea Archaeological Research), Guadeloupe région, of the French Ministry of Culture, and the Direction des patrimoines, de la mémoire et des archives (DMPA, Department of Heritage, Memory and Archives) of the French Ministry of the Army. The wreck is identified as Anémone, a French navy schooner, built in Bayonne, France, in 1823, that sank during the hurricane of 7–8 September 1824. The ship was used as a patrol and customs ship in Guadeloupe to fight against the illicit slave trade. Presented here are the results of the project’s underwater excavations, analyses, public-outreach efforts, and funding support.