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Naval Gunfire Liaison Officers The Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer (NGLO) is a US Navy Officer, typically a LTJG or LT, assigned to a Marine Artillery Battalion to assist in providing Naval Gunfire Support. Attached to the Operations Office (S-3), the NGLO is responsible for a Shore Fire Control Party that contains radiomen and Forward Observers.
Naval heraldry It is the custom in navies of many countries for ships to receive an individually designed coat of arms, variously called badges, seals or crests. The emblems are commonly rendered in the form of embroidered patches worn by the crew members.
Naval history Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history. Traditionally, the focus has been on direct combat between ships at sea, rather than the use of ships to transport armies or military supplies, although frequently naval strategy hinges on the need to protect transport shipping.
Naval history of China The naval history of China dates back thousands of years, with archives extending back very early about the ancient navy of China. But considering China was a country which was longtime menaced by land-based nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu, Göktürks, Mongols and so on, the navy was always seen as an adjunct rather than an important military force.
Naval history of Japan The naval history of Japan traces back to early interactions with states on the Asian continent at the beginning of the medieval period, and reached a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th century at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Nanban trade period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the shoguns of the Edo period, Japan's navy was technologically inferior compared to Western navies when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854.
Naval Helicopter Association The Naval Helicopter Association (NHA), founded in 1976, is a nonprofit organization that promotes the development and use of naval vertical lift aircraft in the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard.
Naval History (magazine) Naval History is a bi-monthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute since 1987. The 72-page publication not only includes feature articles spanning the course of Naval History written by significant scholars of their subject, but also has standing features including: "Looking Back," "On Our Scope," "Naval History News," "Book Reviews," and "Museum Report.
Naval Chapel, Garden Island NSW The Naval Chapel at Garden Island dockyard is the oldest Christian chapel of the Royal Australian Navy. It was established soon after The Great War (World War I) and has stained glass windows and plaques from this era to the present.
Naval Intelligence Handbooks The British Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series was produced between 1941 and 1946. At 31 titles, encompassing 58 volumes, this is the largest single body of geographical writing ever published.
Naval Intelligence Professionals Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) is a nonprofit organization incorporated to enhance awareness of the mission and vital functions of the Naval Intelligence community, as well as to foster camaraderie among Naval Intelligence Professionals, founded in 1985.
Naval Live Oaks Reservation The Naval Live Oaks Reservation (also known as Deer Point Live Oaks Reservation or Deer Point Plantation) is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and is near Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States. The Reservation was included in the Seashore's establishment on January 8, 1971, and added to the U.
Naval militia A naval militia in the United States is a reserve organization administered under the authority of a state government. It is often composed of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard reservists, retirees and volunteers.
Naval mine A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, they are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of an enemy ship.
Naval Museum of Manitoba The Naval Museum of Manitoba is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the Royal Canadian Navy and its influence on Manitoba. The museum first opened in 1980 in the HMCS Chippewa building in Winnipeg.
Naval Nuclear Power Training Command The Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) is the parent organization within the United States Navy's Education and Training division that is responsible for educating enlisted and commissioned personnel of the US nuclear naval program. The NNPTC houses the Nuclear Field "A" School and the Naval Nuclear Power School.
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPI) is a category of intellectual capital defined by the United States Navy to be "that information and/or hardware concerning the design, arrangement, development, manufacturing, testing, operation, administration, training, maintenance, and repair of the propulsion plants of Naval Nuclear Powered Ships including the associated shipboard and shore-based nuclear support facilities." It is not a broad classified information category, but is in some cases a subset of it.
Naval officer ranks Navies have military rank systems that often are quite different from those of armies or air forces. Sometimes, services that are considered parts of the navy – marine or amphibious corps – use the army-style ranks instead, while the ranks listed here are reserved for fleets.
Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War The naval operations of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, divide themselves naturally into two periods. The first ranges from 1775 until the summer of 1778, as the Royal Navy was engaged in cooperating with the troops employed against the American revolutionaries, on the coasts, rivers and lakes of North America, or in endeavouring to protect British commerce against the enterprise of American privateers.
Naval Oceanographic Office The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), located at Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi, USA is comprised of approximately 1,000 civilian, military and contract personnel responsible for providing oceanographic products and services to all elements within the Department of Defense.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory The Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL), now disestablished, formerly located in White Oak, Maryland was the site of considerable work that had practical impact upon world technology. The White Oak site of NOL has now been taken over by Food and Drug Administration.
Naval ranks and insignia of Cuba The following list presents the naval versions of the Rank and Insignia of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1980, until 1999. In the far left, ranks are those that follow traditional Western military ranks, in the center are the Spanish name ranks in italics, and in the far right are the rank insignia.
Naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II The following graphs present the rank insignia of the Japanese navy during World War II. These designs had been used between the years 1931 to 1945, but were discontinued after World War II, when the Imperial navy had been dissolved.
Naval Reactors The term Naval Reactors (often abbreviated to NR) is the generally used colloquial title for the government office that managed the subsequent program to develop, design, construct and ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of the United States Navy's nuclear powered ships.
Naval Reactors Facility Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) is located 52 miles northwest of Idaho Falls. The NRF is a United States Department of Energy-Naval Reactors facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W, S1W and S5G were located.
Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara In 1897, a small group of Santa Barbara, California citizens organized the Sixth Division of the California Naval militia to provide coastal defense for the central coast area. In those days, the Division conducted drills, knotting and splicing exercises, and trained on their gunnery skills aboard visiting US Navy ships.
Naval Reserve Medal The Naval Reserve Medal is a decoration of the United States Navy which was created by order of Secretary of the Navy James Paulding. The medal was first issued on September 12, 1938 and was an active decoration until 1958.
Naval Review A Naval Review is an event, where the whole (or a very large part) of the US Navy is paraded to be reviewed by the president or the Secretary of the Navy. It often includes delegates from other national navies.
Naval specialized research and analysis division Naval specialised research and analysis division (Bulgarian: ВоенноморŃки Ńпециализиран отдел Đ·Đ° проŃчвания и анализи) was a clandestine agency within Bulgarian Navy, intended to intelligence gathering and "unofficial" paramilitary operations. It was disbanded in January 2005.
Naval stores Naval Stores is a broad term which originally applied to the resin-based components used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin and tar. In modern usage, the term applies to all products derived from pine sap, which are used to manufacture soap, paint, varnish, shoe polish, lubricants, linoleum, and roofing material.
Naval stores industry Naval stores industry is a term referring to the collection, processing, and marketing of products created from the oleoresin of particular types of pine tree (genus Pinus), the slash pine and the longleaf pine. The term lingers from a time when the wooden ships and tackle of pre-20th-century navies were caulked and waterproofed using the pitch (or resin, also known as tar) of the pine tree.
Naval Service Reserve The Naval Service Reserve (NSR; Irish: CĂşltaca na SeirbhĂse Cabhlaigh) is the reserve force of the Irish Naval Service. It is one of two elements of the Reserve Defence Forces of the Defence Forces of Ireland, the other element being the Army Reserve.
Naval Special Warfare Center The United States Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC, also know as 'The Center') is part, a component command, of the Naval Special Warfare Command and is sited within the Naval base Coronado in San Diego, California.
Naval Special Warfare Group Special Warfare Group (SWAG) is an elite unit of the Philippine Navy trained in special operations, sabotage, psychological and unconventional warfare. It specializes in sea, air and land (SEAL) operations ranging from reconnaissance, close combat, demolition, intelligence and underwater operations in support to the overall naval operations.
Naval Station Great Lakes Naval Station Great Lakes is the United States Navy's Headquarters Command for training issues, located in North Chicago, Illinois. Important tenant commands include the Recruit Training Center (Basic Training), the Naval Hospital, and the Naval District Headquarters.
Naval Station Ingleside Naval Station Ingleside is a United States Navy base in Ingleside, Texas, on the northern shore of Corpus Christi Bay, 20 miles northeast of the city of Corpus Christi, about 150 miles south of San Antonio, and approximately 200 miles south of Houston. This region is known as the Coastal Bend.
Naval Station Pascagoula Naval Station Pascagoula is a base of the United States Navy, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The station is located on Singing River Island, in the Mississippi Sound at the mouth of the Singing (née Pascagoula) River.
Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC, pronounced "EN-SOCK") at Naval Air Station Fallon is the center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development. NSAWC provides service to aircrews, squadrons and air wings throughout the United States Navy through flight training, academic instructional classes, and direct operational and intelligence support.
Naval Strike Missile The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) and planned to be fully operational in 2006. It has already been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its new Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class patrol boats.
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory The Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) is located on the New London Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut. The laboratory's mission is to protect the health and enhance the performance of our War Fighters through focused submarine, diving, and surface research solutions.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is a United States Navy installation located approximately 70 miles (113 km) southwest of Indianapolis, Indiana and predominantly located in Martin County. It was originally established in 1941 under the Bureau of Ordnance as the Naval Ammunition Depot for production, testing, and storage of ordnance under the first supplemental Defense Appropriation Act.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. One of the corporate laboratories of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island, and has two major subordinate activities — Division Newport and Division Keyport (in Keyport, Washington).
Naval Vessel Register The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that comprise the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and disposal.
Naval warfare of World War I Naval combat in World War I was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, to blockade the Central Powers by sea, and the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade or to establish an effective blockade of the United Kingdom and France with submarines and raiders.
Naval War College The Naval War College (NWC) is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The college is located in Newport, Rhode Island.
Naval War College (Japan) The Naval War College ( Kaigun Daigakkō; Short form: 海大 Kaidai) of the Empire of Japan was founded in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1888, the same year the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy moved from Tsukiji to Etajima, Hiroshima. It was establish to modernize and Westernize the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Naval War College Review The Naval War College Review is a quarterly publication of the United States Navy's Naval War College for the discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime services, established in 1948. Articles are related to the academic and professional activities of the Naval War College, and are intended to inform, stimulate, and challenge readers, and to serve as a catalyst for new ideas.
Naval Weapons Station Charleston Naval Weapons Station Charleston is a base of the United States Navy located on the west bank of the Cooper River, in Charleston County, South Carolina, north of Charleston. It contains 12,000 acres (48 km²).
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach is a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility located in Seal Beach, California with detachments in Concord, Fallbrook, and San Diego, all also in California. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has recommended that the Inland portion of the Concord detachment be closed and the Tidal section of the detachment be transferred to the United States Army.
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is a United States Navy base in York County and James City County in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It provides a weapons and ammunition storage and loading facility for ships of the US Atlantic Fleet.
Navamorales Navamorales is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 71 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 142 people.
Navan Navan (An Uaimh in Irish, meaning "The Cave") is the administrative Capital of County Meath, Ireland. Situated on the N3 National Primary Road, it is the 9th largest and fastest growing town in Ireland according to Census 2002 statistics which state the population of the town increased by 51.
Navanax inermis Navanax inermis is a species of opisthobranch mollusc, related to nudibranchs from the eastern Pacific Ocean. It has been suggested that this species should be moved to the Aglaja genus, but the name Navanax is still used in most popular works.
Navarath A prominent character in Jack Vance's Demon Princes series, Navarath is a mad poet whose works are very interesting in and of themselves. The following is an example of such sayings which characterizes Jack Vance's writing style: "Not now, not tomorrow, not in the total scope of the future nor anytime thereafter do I wish to make your acquaintance.
Navaratnas Navaratnas (Sanskrit dvigu nava-ratna- "nine gems") was a term applied to a group of nine extraordinary people in a king's court in India. Two such well-known groups are Akbar's darbar and that of Vikramaditya.
Navarch Navarch is a Greek word meaning "leader of the ships," which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral. Not all states gave their naval commanders such a title; Athens, for instance, placed its fleet under the command of generals (strategoi) holding the same title as those who commanded its land forces.
Navarin (1891) The Navarin (Наварин - after the battle of Navarino) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. Based on the British Trafalgar class battleship, she was built by the Galerniy Yard St Petersburg.
Navarre Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community in Spain. Its official Spanish-language name is Comunidad Foral de Navarra', Basque Nafarroako Foru Erkidegoa (for an explanation of foral, see fuero).
Navarredonda de la Rinconada Navarredonda de la Rinconada, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, is a village and municipality in the western province of Salamanca in Spain. It is located 68 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 267 people.
Navarrese Company The Navarrese Company was a company of mercenaries, mostly from Navarre and Gascony, which fought in Greece during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, in the twilight of Frankish power in the dwindling remnant of the Latin Empire. "Navarrese Company" is an informal, modern, somewhat innaccurate, term for these soldiers.
Navarro College Navarro College is a community college located south of Dallas in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas The school opened its doors in 1946 and currently features an enrollment of about 4,000 students and a faculty of 254.
Navarro River Redwoods State Park Navarro River Redwoods State Park is a state park consisting of an 11-mile stretch of second-growth redwood forest on the banks of the Navarro River in Mendocino County, California. The park may be reached via California State Route 128, which runs through the park along the north bank of the river.
Navarth Navarth, generally referred to as 'the mad poet', is a character in The Palace of Love (pub. 1967), the third of the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance, though his writings are occasionally referred to in other, unrelated novels by Vance (eg Araminta Station).
Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge protects coral reef ecosystems, native wildlife and plants, and provides opportunities for scientific research on and around Navassa Island (see that article for the territorial history of Navassa). The National Wildlife Refuge is located 35 miles (56 km) west of the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti.
Nave's Topical Bible Nave's Topical Bible is a book written by Orville James Nave (1841-1917) and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. It is a topical concordance of the Bible, and contains Biblical references to over 20,000 topics.
Navel fetishism Navel fetishism is typically a sexual fetish where an individual is strongly attracted to the human navel (also known as, and is referred to by most 'navel fetishists' as the belly button). Navel fetishism is often related to stomach fetishism (alvinolagnia).
Navel piercing Navel piercing aka belly button piercing is a type of body piercing, far more common among women than men, where the skin surrounding the navel is pierced and jewelry is inserted. Depending on the amount of skin available for piercing, it may heal quickly and with few problems, like an ear piercing, or it may heal more like a surface piercing, with the associated rejection risks and extended healing time.
Navesink Maritime Heritage Association The Navesink Maritime Heritage Association (NMHA) is a non-profit educational organization that promotes appreciation and preservation of New Jersey's Navesink River communities' maritime heritage, including history, skills, watercraft, artifacts and associated arts, crafts, and sciences.
Navi Mumbai International airport The new international airport, which is to come up at Kopra-Panvel area, is been built through public-private partnership (PPP) — with private sector partner getting 74% equity while Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Govt of Maharashtra (through City and Industrial Development Corporation or CIDCO) holding 13% each.
Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport Undertaking or NMMT Undertaking is the local transport service operated by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation in the city of Navi Mumbai and adjoining areas; Dombivli, Badlapur, Uran, Panvel, Thane and Mulund (in Mumbai, India). They have a fleet of 200 buses operated from two depots, Turbhe and Aasudgaon.
Navi Rawat Navi Rawat (born Navlata Rawat on June 5, 1977 in Malibu, California) is an American actress of Indian and German descent (her father is Indian, her mother is German). She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Navia Navia is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It lies on the Cantabrian Sea, and is bordered by the municipalities of Villayón to the south, Valdés to the east, and Coaña to the west.
Navia Dratp Navia Dratp (pronounced (nah-vee-ah drap) according to the official website) (Japanese: ăŠă´ă‚Łă‚˘ă€€ă‰ă©ăă—) is a collectible miniatures game with similarities to shogi, the Japanese equivalent of chess.
Navidad Bank Navidad Bank is an area in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the Territory of Turks & Caicos. It is a shallow underwater area composed of coral and sand that almost reaches the ocean's surface, but is wholly submerged.
NaviDrive The NaviDrive system is voice-activated radio, CD player, telephone, and navigation system (GPS) all in one unit, assembled in Citroën vehicles(Citroën C8, C6, C5, C4 and C3). It includes a special function for reading back incoming text messages and dedicated buttons for dialling up the emergency or recovery services (to whom it can indicate the car position).
Navier-Stokes equations The Navier-Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, are a set of equations that describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. These equations establish that changes in momentum in infinitesimal volumes of fluid are simply the product of changes in pressure and dissipative viscous forces (similar to friction) acting inside the fluid.
Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness A $1,000,000 prize was offered in May 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute to whoever proves first the following statement about the Navier-Stokes equations. These equations describe the flow of nearly all practical fluids, but can be extremely complicated and difficult to solve.
Navies of landlocked countries A landlocked navy is a naval force operated by a country which does not have a coastline. While such countries are obviously unable to develop a sea-going blue-water navy, they may still deploy armed forces on major lakes or rivers.
Navigability A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep and wide enough for a vessel to pass and there are no obstructions, like rocks, trees and low bridges. Shallow rivers may be made navigable by the installation of locks that increase & regulate water depth.
Navigable river A navigable river is a river which can be navigated by boat. Often, it refers to a river which has a certain status, requiring bridges over it to be a certain height or have movable sections, and may be regularly dredged to maintain a certain depth.
Navigation Navigation is the art and science of determining ones position so as to safely travel to a desired destination. Different techniques have evolved over the ages in different cultures, but all involve locating ones position compared to known locations or patterns.
Navigation and Air Electronics Training Squadron RNZAF NATS (Navigation and Air Electronics Training Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force) was a squadron based at the now-decommissioned RNZAF Wigram. Equipped with 3 Fokker Friendship F27 Mk120's, NATS had the responisibility of training navigators and flight engineers.
Navigation Acts The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which, beginning in 1651, restricted foreign shipping. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American Revolutionary War.
Navigation controls In human-computer interaction, navigation controls are an arrangement of (word/icon) forms within the user interface of a specific system. This system can be a computer-based application, an application on a wireless device (like a cell-phone), a GPS appliance (in your car or your backpack), or any manner of system that requires human-computer interaction with a stored program.
Navigation light A Navigation light is a coloured source of illumination on an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel, used to signal a craft's position, heading, and status. Commonly, their placement is mandated by international conventions or civil authorities.
Navigation mesh A navigation mesh is an abstract data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in path-finding through large spaces. Meshes that do not map to static obstacles in the environment they model offer the additional advantage that agents with access to the mesh will not consider these obstacles in path-finding, reducing computational effort and making collision detection between agents and static obstacles moot.
Navigation research Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general. It can be defined as "The process of determining and maintaining a course or trajectory to a goal location" (Franz, Mallot, 2000).
Navigational aid A navigational aid or Navaid is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or aviation travel. Common types of such aids include lighthouses, buoys, fog signals, and daybeacons.
Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project The Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project (NAHSTE) is an effort by the University of Edinburgh and the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) to make manuscripts and other documents available on the Web.
Navigational deflector In the Star Trek fictional universe, the navigational deflector is a device found on many Starfleet ships capable of warp travel, generally noticeable by its foremost location on many ships' engineering hulls and its soft blue glow. The navigational deflector is used while moving at faster-than-light speeds to prevent damage to ships' hulls from micrometeors and friction from the microscopic objects and extremely thin gas found in interstellar space.
Navigational file manager In computing, a navigational file manager is a file manager that uses a "navigational" metaphor to represent filesystem locations. It is the dominant style of file manager for desktop computers, being used, for example, in most recent Microsoft Windows products.
Navigational instruments Navigational instruments refers to the instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the present position and to determine the speed, direction etc.
Navigator Badge The Navigator Badge is a military qualification badge of the United States Armed Forces which was first created during the Second World War. The current USAF badge is designated by Air Force Instructions as the Navigator/Observer Badge and is issued to rated officers in both rating categories.
Navigator of the Seas Completed in 2002, Navigator of the Seas is one of Royal Caribbean International's five Voyager class cruise ships. She was once one of the largest in the fleet and still ranks among the largest passenger ships in the world.
Navigator Program The Navigator Program is a long term NASA project charged with over-seeing all missions related to the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets. It also seeks to further understand how galaxies, stars and planets form.
Navigators Insurance Cycling Team Navigators Insurance Cycling Team (UCI Code: NIC) is an elite professional road bicycle racing cycling team based in the United States. The Navigators team focuses on USA Cycling's National Racing Calendar and UCI Americas Tour events.
Naviglio di Bereguardo Situated in Lombardy, Italy, the Naviglio di Bereguardo was a navigable canal, part of the Navigli system. It leaves the Naviglio Grande at Abbiategrasso, heading in a southerly direction to Bereguardo (a distance of about 18 Km).
Naviglio di Paderno The Naviglio di Paderno was a navigable canal of the Navigli system in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. Approximately 3 Km long, it was built to bypass the rapids on the River Adda in the Paderno section of the river.
Naviglio Grande The Naviglio Grande is a canal in Lombardy, Northern Italy, joining the Ticino river near Tornavento (23 km south of Sesto Calende) to the Porta Ticinese dock, also known as the Darsena, in Milan. It drops 34 m over 49.
Naviglio Martesana The Naviglio Martesana was a navigable canal in the Lombardy region, Northern Italy. Running from the Adda river, in the vicinity of Trezzo sull'Adda, to Milan, it was also known as Naviglio Piccolo and it is part of the system of navigli of the Milan area.
Naviglio Pavese The Naviglio Pavese is one of the canals making up the Navigli system in Lombardy, Italy. Once navigable, it is 33 Km long and connected the city of Milan to Pavia, and through a flight of 6 locks to the River Ticino.
Naval heraldry It is the custom in navies of many countries for ships to receive an individually designed coat of arms, variously called badges, seals or crests. The emblems are commonly rendered in the form of embroidered patches worn by the crew members.
Naval history Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history. Traditionally, the focus has been on direct combat between ships at sea, rather than the use of ships to transport armies or military supplies, although frequently naval strategy hinges on the need to protect transport shipping.
Naval history of China The naval history of China dates back thousands of years, with archives extending back very early about the ancient navy of China. But considering China was a country which was longtime menaced by land-based nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu, Göktürks, Mongols and so on, the navy was always seen as an adjunct rather than an important military force.
Naval history of Japan The naval history of Japan traces back to early interactions with states on the Asian continent at the beginning of the medieval period, and reached a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th century at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Nanban trade period. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the shoguns of the Edo period, Japan's navy was technologically inferior compared to Western navies when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854.
Naval Helicopter Association The Naval Helicopter Association (NHA), founded in 1976, is a nonprofit organization that promotes the development and use of naval vertical lift aircraft in the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard.
Naval History (magazine) Naval History is a bi-monthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute since 1987. The 72-page publication not only includes feature articles spanning the course of Naval History written by significant scholars of their subject, but also has standing features including: "Looking Back," "On Our Scope," "Naval History News," "Book Reviews," and "Museum Report.
Naval Chapel, Garden Island NSW The Naval Chapel at Garden Island dockyard is the oldest Christian chapel of the Royal Australian Navy. It was established soon after The Great War (World War I) and has stained glass windows and plaques from this era to the present.
Naval Intelligence Handbooks The British Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series was produced between 1941 and 1946. At 31 titles, encompassing 58 volumes, this is the largest single body of geographical writing ever published.
Naval Intelligence Professionals Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) is a nonprofit organization incorporated to enhance awareness of the mission and vital functions of the Naval Intelligence community, as well as to foster camaraderie among Naval Intelligence Professionals, founded in 1985.
Naval Live Oaks Reservation The Naval Live Oaks Reservation (also known as Deer Point Live Oaks Reservation or Deer Point Plantation) is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and is near Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States. The Reservation was included in the Seashore's establishment on January 8, 1971, and added to the U.
Naval militia A naval militia in the United States is a reserve organization administered under the authority of a state government. It is often composed of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard reservists, retirees and volunteers.
Naval mine A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, they are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of an enemy ship.
Naval Museum of Manitoba The Naval Museum of Manitoba is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the Royal Canadian Navy and its influence on Manitoba. The museum first opened in 1980 in the HMCS Chippewa building in Winnipeg.
Naval Nuclear Power Training Command The Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) is the parent organization within the United States Navy's Education and Training division that is responsible for educating enlisted and commissioned personnel of the US nuclear naval program. The NNPTC houses the Nuclear Field "A" School and the Naval Nuclear Power School.
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPI) is a category of intellectual capital defined by the United States Navy to be "that information and/or hardware concerning the design, arrangement, development, manufacturing, testing, operation, administration, training, maintenance, and repair of the propulsion plants of Naval Nuclear Powered Ships including the associated shipboard and shore-based nuclear support facilities." It is not a broad classified information category, but is in some cases a subset of it.
Naval officer ranks Navies have military rank systems that often are quite different from those of armies or air forces. Sometimes, services that are considered parts of the navy – marine or amphibious corps – use the army-style ranks instead, while the ranks listed here are reserved for fleets.
Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War The naval operations of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, divide themselves naturally into two periods. The first ranges from 1775 until the summer of 1778, as the Royal Navy was engaged in cooperating with the troops employed against the American revolutionaries, on the coasts, rivers and lakes of North America, or in endeavouring to protect British commerce against the enterprise of American privateers.
Naval Oceanographic Office The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), located at Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi, USA is comprised of approximately 1,000 civilian, military and contract personnel responsible for providing oceanographic products and services to all elements within the Department of Defense.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory The Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL), now disestablished, formerly located in White Oak, Maryland was the site of considerable work that had practical impact upon world technology. The White Oak site of NOL has now been taken over by Food and Drug Administration.
Naval ranks and insignia of Cuba The following list presents the naval versions of the Rank and Insignia of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1980, until 1999. In the far left, ranks are those that follow traditional Western military ranks, in the center are the Spanish name ranks in italics, and in the far right are the rank insignia.
Naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II The following graphs present the rank insignia of the Japanese navy during World War II. These designs had been used between the years 1931 to 1945, but were discontinued after World War II, when the Imperial navy had been dissolved.
Naval Reactors The term Naval Reactors (often abbreviated to NR) is the generally used colloquial title for the government office that managed the subsequent program to develop, design, construct and ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of the United States Navy's nuclear powered ships.
Naval Reactors Facility Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) is located 52 miles northwest of Idaho Falls. The NRF is a United States Department of Energy-Naval Reactors facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W, S1W and S5G were located.
Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara In 1897, a small group of Santa Barbara, California citizens organized the Sixth Division of the California Naval militia to provide coastal defense for the central coast area. In those days, the Division conducted drills, knotting and splicing exercises, and trained on their gunnery skills aboard visiting US Navy ships.
Naval Reserve Medal The Naval Reserve Medal is a decoration of the United States Navy which was created by order of Secretary of the Navy James Paulding. The medal was first issued on September 12, 1938 and was an active decoration until 1958.
Naval Review A Naval Review is an event, where the whole (or a very large part) of the US Navy is paraded to be reviewed by the president or the Secretary of the Navy. It often includes delegates from other national navies.
Naval specialized research and analysis division Naval specialised research and analysis division (Bulgarian: ВоенноморŃки Ńпециализиран отдел Đ·Đ° проŃчвания и анализи) was a clandestine agency within Bulgarian Navy, intended to intelligence gathering and "unofficial" paramilitary operations. It was disbanded in January 2005.
Naval stores Naval Stores is a broad term which originally applied to the resin-based components used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin and tar. In modern usage, the term applies to all products derived from pine sap, which are used to manufacture soap, paint, varnish, shoe polish, lubricants, linoleum, and roofing material.
Naval stores industry Naval stores industry is a term referring to the collection, processing, and marketing of products created from the oleoresin of particular types of pine tree (genus Pinus), the slash pine and the longleaf pine. The term lingers from a time when the wooden ships and tackle of pre-20th-century navies were caulked and waterproofed using the pitch (or resin, also known as tar) of the pine tree.
Naval Service Reserve The Naval Service Reserve (NSR; Irish: CĂşltaca na SeirbhĂse Cabhlaigh) is the reserve force of the Irish Naval Service. It is one of two elements of the Reserve Defence Forces of the Defence Forces of Ireland, the other element being the Army Reserve.
Naval Special Warfare Center The United States Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC, also know as 'The Center') is part, a component command, of the Naval Special Warfare Command and is sited within the Naval base Coronado in San Diego, California.
Naval Special Warfare Group Special Warfare Group (SWAG) is an elite unit of the Philippine Navy trained in special operations, sabotage, psychological and unconventional warfare. It specializes in sea, air and land (SEAL) operations ranging from reconnaissance, close combat, demolition, intelligence and underwater operations in support to the overall naval operations.
Naval Station Great Lakes Naval Station Great Lakes is the United States Navy's Headquarters Command for training issues, located in North Chicago, Illinois. Important tenant commands include the Recruit Training Center (Basic Training), the Naval Hospital, and the Naval District Headquarters.
Naval Station Ingleside Naval Station Ingleside is a United States Navy base in Ingleside, Texas, on the northern shore of Corpus Christi Bay, 20 miles northeast of the city of Corpus Christi, about 150 miles south of San Antonio, and approximately 200 miles south of Houston. This region is known as the Coastal Bend.
Naval Station Pascagoula Naval Station Pascagoula is a base of the United States Navy, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The station is located on Singing River Island, in the Mississippi Sound at the mouth of the Singing (née Pascagoula) River.
Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC, pronounced "EN-SOCK") at Naval Air Station Fallon is the center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development. NSAWC provides service to aircrews, squadrons and air wings throughout the United States Navy through flight training, academic instructional classes, and direct operational and intelligence support.
Naval Strike Missile The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) and planned to be fully operational in 2006. It has already been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its new Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class patrol boats.
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory The Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) is located on the New London Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut. The laboratory's mission is to protect the health and enhance the performance of our War Fighters through focused submarine, diving, and surface research solutions.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is a United States Navy installation located approximately 70 miles (113 km) southwest of Indianapolis, Indiana and predominantly located in Martin County. It was originally established in 1941 under the Bureau of Ordnance as the Naval Ammunition Depot for production, testing, and storage of ordnance under the first supplemental Defense Appropriation Act.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. One of the corporate laboratories of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island, and has two major subordinate activities — Division Newport and Division Keyport (in Keyport, Washington).
Naval Vessel Register The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that comprise the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and disposal.
Naval warfare of World War I Naval combat in World War I was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, to blockade the Central Powers by sea, and the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade or to establish an effective blockade of the United Kingdom and France with submarines and raiders.
Naval War College The Naval War College (NWC) is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The college is located in Newport, Rhode Island.
Naval War College (Japan) The Naval War College ( Kaigun Daigakkō; Short form: 海大 Kaidai) of the Empire of Japan was founded in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1888, the same year the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy moved from Tsukiji to Etajima, Hiroshima. It was establish to modernize and Westernize the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Naval War College Review The Naval War College Review is a quarterly publication of the United States Navy's Naval War College for the discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime services, established in 1948. Articles are related to the academic and professional activities of the Naval War College, and are intended to inform, stimulate, and challenge readers, and to serve as a catalyst for new ideas.
Naval Weapons Station Charleston Naval Weapons Station Charleston is a base of the United States Navy located on the west bank of the Cooper River, in Charleston County, South Carolina, north of Charleston. It contains 12,000 acres (48 km²).
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach is a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility located in Seal Beach, California with detachments in Concord, Fallbrook, and San Diego, all also in California. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has recommended that the Inland portion of the Concord detachment be closed and the Tidal section of the detachment be transferred to the United States Army.
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is a United States Navy base in York County and James City County in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It provides a weapons and ammunition storage and loading facility for ships of the US Atlantic Fleet.
Navamorales Navamorales is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 71 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 142 people.
Navan Navan (An Uaimh in Irish, meaning "The Cave") is the administrative Capital of County Meath, Ireland. Situated on the N3 National Primary Road, it is the 9th largest and fastest growing town in Ireland according to Census 2002 statistics which state the population of the town increased by 51.
Navanax inermis Navanax inermis is a species of opisthobranch mollusc, related to nudibranchs from the eastern Pacific Ocean. It has been suggested that this species should be moved to the Aglaja genus, but the name Navanax is still used in most popular works.
Navarath A prominent character in Jack Vance's Demon Princes series, Navarath is a mad poet whose works are very interesting in and of themselves. The following is an example of such sayings which characterizes Jack Vance's writing style: "Not now, not tomorrow, not in the total scope of the future nor anytime thereafter do I wish to make your acquaintance.
Navaratnas Navaratnas (Sanskrit dvigu nava-ratna- "nine gems") was a term applied to a group of nine extraordinary people in a king's court in India. Two such well-known groups are Akbar's darbar and that of Vikramaditya.
Navarch Navarch is a Greek word meaning "leader of the ships," which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral. Not all states gave their naval commanders such a title; Athens, for instance, placed its fleet under the command of generals (strategoi) holding the same title as those who commanded its land forces.
Navarin (1891) The Navarin (Наварин - after the battle of Navarino) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. Based on the British Trafalgar class battleship, she was built by the Galerniy Yard St Petersburg.
Navarre Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community in Spain. Its official Spanish-language name is Comunidad Foral de Navarra', Basque Nafarroako Foru Erkidegoa (for an explanation of foral, see fuero).
Navarredonda de la Rinconada Navarredonda de la Rinconada, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, is a village and municipality in the western province of Salamanca in Spain. It is located 68 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 267 people.
Navarrese Company The Navarrese Company was a company of mercenaries, mostly from Navarre and Gascony, which fought in Greece during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, in the twilight of Frankish power in the dwindling remnant of the Latin Empire. "Navarrese Company" is an informal, modern, somewhat innaccurate, term for these soldiers.
Navarro College Navarro College is a community college located south of Dallas in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas The school opened its doors in 1946 and currently features an enrollment of about 4,000 students and a faculty of 254.
Navarro River Redwoods State Park Navarro River Redwoods State Park is a state park consisting of an 11-mile stretch of second-growth redwood forest on the banks of the Navarro River in Mendocino County, California. The park may be reached via California State Route 128, which runs through the park along the north bank of the river.
Navarth Navarth, generally referred to as 'the mad poet', is a character in The Palace of Love (pub. 1967), the third of the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance, though his writings are occasionally referred to in other, unrelated novels by Vance (eg Araminta Station).
Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge protects coral reef ecosystems, native wildlife and plants, and provides opportunities for scientific research on and around Navassa Island (see that article for the territorial history of Navassa). The National Wildlife Refuge is located 35 miles (56 km) west of the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti.
Nave's Topical Bible Nave's Topical Bible is a book written by Orville James Nave (1841-1917) and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. It is a topical concordance of the Bible, and contains Biblical references to over 20,000 topics.
Navel fetishism Navel fetishism is typically a sexual fetish where an individual is strongly attracted to the human navel (also known as, and is referred to by most 'navel fetishists' as the belly button). Navel fetishism is often related to stomach fetishism (alvinolagnia).
Navel piercing Navel piercing aka belly button piercing is a type of body piercing, far more common among women than men, where the skin surrounding the navel is pierced and jewelry is inserted. Depending on the amount of skin available for piercing, it may heal quickly and with few problems, like an ear piercing, or it may heal more like a surface piercing, with the associated rejection risks and extended healing time.
Navesink Maritime Heritage Association The Navesink Maritime Heritage Association (NMHA) is a non-profit educational organization that promotes appreciation and preservation of New Jersey's Navesink River communities' maritime heritage, including history, skills, watercraft, artifacts and associated arts, crafts, and sciences.
Navi Mumbai International airport The new international airport, which is to come up at Kopra-Panvel area, is been built through public-private partnership (PPP) — with private sector partner getting 74% equity while Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Govt of Maharashtra (through City and Industrial Development Corporation or CIDCO) holding 13% each.
Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport Undertaking or NMMT Undertaking is the local transport service operated by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation in the city of Navi Mumbai and adjoining areas; Dombivli, Badlapur, Uran, Panvel, Thane and Mulund (in Mumbai, India). They have a fleet of 200 buses operated from two depots, Turbhe and Aasudgaon.
Navi Rawat Navi Rawat (born Navlata Rawat on June 5, 1977 in Malibu, California) is an American actress of Indian and German descent (her father is Indian, her mother is German). She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Navia Navia is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It lies on the Cantabrian Sea, and is bordered by the municipalities of Villayón to the south, Valdés to the east, and Coaña to the west.
Navia Dratp Navia Dratp (pronounced (nah-vee-ah drap) according to the official website) (Japanese: ăŠă´ă‚Łă‚˘ă€€ă‰ă©ăă—) is a collectible miniatures game with similarities to shogi, the Japanese equivalent of chess.
Navidad Bank Navidad Bank is an area in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the Territory of Turks & Caicos. It is a shallow underwater area composed of coral and sand that almost reaches the ocean's surface, but is wholly submerged.
NaviDrive The NaviDrive system is voice-activated radio, CD player, telephone, and navigation system (GPS) all in one unit, assembled in Citroën vehicles(Citroën C8, C6, C5, C4 and C3). It includes a special function for reading back incoming text messages and dedicated buttons for dialling up the emergency or recovery services (to whom it can indicate the car position).
Navier-Stokes equations The Navier-Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, are a set of equations that describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. These equations establish that changes in momentum in infinitesimal volumes of fluid are simply the product of changes in pressure and dissipative viscous forces (similar to friction) acting inside the fluid.
Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness A $1,000,000 prize was offered in May 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute to whoever proves first the following statement about the Navier-Stokes equations. These equations describe the flow of nearly all practical fluids, but can be extremely complicated and difficult to solve.
Navies of landlocked countries A landlocked navy is a naval force operated by a country which does not have a coastline. While such countries are obviously unable to develop a sea-going blue-water navy, they may still deploy armed forces on major lakes or rivers.
Navigability A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep and wide enough for a vessel to pass and there are no obstructions, like rocks, trees and low bridges. Shallow rivers may be made navigable by the installation of locks that increase & regulate water depth.
Navigable river A navigable river is a river which can be navigated by boat. Often, it refers to a river which has a certain status, requiring bridges over it to be a certain height or have movable sections, and may be regularly dredged to maintain a certain depth.
Navigation Navigation is the art and science of determining ones position so as to safely travel to a desired destination. Different techniques have evolved over the ages in different cultures, but all involve locating ones position compared to known locations or patterns.
Navigation and Air Electronics Training Squadron RNZAF NATS (Navigation and Air Electronics Training Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force) was a squadron based at the now-decommissioned RNZAF Wigram. Equipped with 3 Fokker Friendship F27 Mk120's, NATS had the responisibility of training navigators and flight engineers.
Navigation Acts The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which, beginning in 1651, restricted foreign shipping. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American Revolutionary War.
Navigation controls In human-computer interaction, navigation controls are an arrangement of (word/icon) forms within the user interface of a specific system. This system can be a computer-based application, an application on a wireless device (like a cell-phone), a GPS appliance (in your car or your backpack), or any manner of system that requires human-computer interaction with a stored program.
Navigation light A Navigation light is a coloured source of illumination on an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel, used to signal a craft's position, heading, and status. Commonly, their placement is mandated by international conventions or civil authorities.
Navigation mesh A navigation mesh is an abstract data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in path-finding through large spaces. Meshes that do not map to static obstacles in the environment they model offer the additional advantage that agents with access to the mesh will not consider these obstacles in path-finding, reducing computational effort and making collision detection between agents and static obstacles moot.
Navigation research Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general. It can be defined as "The process of determining and maintaining a course or trajectory to a goal location" (Franz, Mallot, 2000).
Navigational aid A navigational aid or Navaid is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or aviation travel. Common types of such aids include lighthouses, buoys, fog signals, and daybeacons.
Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project The Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project (NAHSTE) is an effort by the University of Edinburgh and the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) to make manuscripts and other documents available on the Web.
Navigational deflector In the Star Trek fictional universe, the navigational deflector is a device found on many Starfleet ships capable of warp travel, generally noticeable by its foremost location on many ships' engineering hulls and its soft blue glow. The navigational deflector is used while moving at faster-than-light speeds to prevent damage to ships' hulls from micrometeors and friction from the microscopic objects and extremely thin gas found in interstellar space.
Navigational file manager In computing, a navigational file manager is a file manager that uses a "navigational" metaphor to represent filesystem locations. It is the dominant style of file manager for desktop computers, being used, for example, in most recent Microsoft Windows products.
Navigational instruments Navigational instruments refers to the instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the present position and to determine the speed, direction etc.
Navigator Badge The Navigator Badge is a military qualification badge of the United States Armed Forces which was first created during the Second World War. The current USAF badge is designated by Air Force Instructions as the Navigator/Observer Badge and is issued to rated officers in both rating categories.
Navigator of the Seas Completed in 2002, Navigator of the Seas is one of Royal Caribbean International's five Voyager class cruise ships. She was once one of the largest in the fleet and still ranks among the largest passenger ships in the world.
Navigator Program The Navigator Program is a long term NASA project charged with over-seeing all missions related to the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets. It also seeks to further understand how galaxies, stars and planets form.
Navigators Insurance Cycling Team Navigators Insurance Cycling Team (UCI Code: NIC) is an elite professional road bicycle racing cycling team based in the United States. The Navigators team focuses on USA Cycling's National Racing Calendar and UCI Americas Tour events.
Naviglio di Bereguardo Situated in Lombardy, Italy, the Naviglio di Bereguardo was a navigable canal, part of the Navigli system. It leaves the Naviglio Grande at Abbiategrasso, heading in a southerly direction to Bereguardo (a distance of about 18 Km).
Naviglio di Paderno The Naviglio di Paderno was a navigable canal of the Navigli system in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. Approximately 3 Km long, it was built to bypass the rapids on the River Adda in the Paderno section of the river.
Naviglio Grande The Naviglio Grande is a canal in Lombardy, Northern Italy, joining the Ticino river near Tornavento (23 km south of Sesto Calende) to the Porta Ticinese dock, also known as the Darsena, in Milan. It drops 34 m over 49.
Naviglio Martesana The Naviglio Martesana was a navigable canal in the Lombardy region, Northern Italy. Running from the Adda river, in the vicinity of Trezzo sull'Adda, to Milan, it was also known as Naviglio Piccolo and it is part of the system of navigli of the Milan area.
Naviglio Pavese The Naviglio Pavese is one of the canals making up the Navigli system in Lombardy, Italy. Once navigable, it is 33 Km long and connected the city of Milan to Pavia, and through a flight of 6 locks to the River Ticino.
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