Ballast inside the stern helps to keep the RP FLIP upright even during heavy waves. The inside of the ship looks particularly strange, as each utility requires two configurations. This means that ...
You can even see the ship's name - E N D U R A N C E - arced across its stern directly below the taffrail (a hand rail near the stern). And beneath, as bold as brass, is Polaris, the five-pointed ...
Specifically, the U.S. Navy's CG-47/DD-963 Stern Flap R&D Team has received one of the EPA's 1998 Climate Protection Awards, as it was singled out for "Technical Breakthroughs in Ship Energy ...