USS Porter (DD-356) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named for Commodore David Porter and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter Operational history Construction. Porter was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in ...

A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems, usually called simply a carrier) is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport. A common carrier offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided …

Radio Common Carrier or RCC was a service introduced in the 1960s by independent telephone companies to compete against AT&T's IMTS. RCC systems used paired UHF 454/459 MHz and VHF 152/158 MHz frequencies near those used by IMTS. RCC based services were provided until the 1980s when cellular AMPS systems made RCC equipment obsolete.

The Commencement Bay-class escort aircraft carriers were the last class of escort carriers built for the US Navy in World War II.. The ships were based on the Maritime Commission type T3 Tanker hull, which gave them a displacement of approximately 23,000 tons and a length of 557 feet (170 m).Unlike most earlier escort carrier classes, which were laid down as something …

Porter Airlines (stylized in all lowercase as porter) is a regional airline headquartered at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on the Toronto Islands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Porter Aviation Holdings, formerly known as REGCO Holdings Inc., Porter operates regularly scheduled flights between Toronto and locations in Canada and the United States using Canadian-built …

The Porter-class destroyers were a class of eight 1,850-ton large destroyers in the United States Navy.Like the preceding Farragut-class, their construction was authorized by Congress on 26 April 1916, but funding was delayed considerably. They were designed based on a 1,850-ton standard displacement limit imposed by the London Naval Treaty; the treaty's tonnage limit …

The Avenger-class escort carrier was a class of escort carriers comprising three ships in service with the Royal Navy during the Second World War and one ship of the class in the United States Navy called the Charger Type of 1942-class escort carrier. [page needed] All three were originally American type C3 merchant ships in the process of being built at the Sun …

Delta Air Lines, Inc., typically referred to as Delta, is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier.One of the world's oldest airlines in operation, Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations in 52 countries on ...

Jean-Baptiste Carrier, né le 16 mars 1756 à Yolet, près d'Aurillac, et mort guillotiné le 16 décembre 1794 (26 frimaire an III) à Paris, est un homme politique français, un des acteurs de la Révolution française, et particulièrement de la Terreur.Son nom reste associé aux massacres, fusillades et noyades de Nantes qu'il ordonna entre décembre 1793 et février 1794.

Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller (road roller) manufacturer. Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862, and developed a steam engine three years later in 1865. By the early 1900s, the company had become the largest manufacturer of steamrollers (road rollers) in the world. The company used a rampant horse as …