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Nabob

D77 - Ameer-class escort carrier
CVE-41 Edisto

"Important, influential person". From a term used in India under the Mogul Empire, referring to the governor of an area.

Nassau

CVE-16 - Bogue-class escort carrier

LHA-4 - Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship

"A sound off the coast of Florida."

Natoma Bay

CVE-62 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

"A bay in the Graham Islands off the southwest coast of Alaska, approximately 45 miles south-southwest of Ketchikan."

Nehenta Bay

CVE-74 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

Small bay off Clarence Strait, extreme south Alaska, about 15 miles from Ketchikan.

"A bay in Alaska."

New Orleans

Ship of the Line

Protected Cruiser

CA-32 - New Orleans-class heavy cruiser

LPH-11 - Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship

LPD-18 - San Antonio-class amphibious transport (dock)

"Largest city of Louisiana, New Orleans was the scene of Andrew Jackson's great victory at the close of the War of 1812, in which small naval forces under Commodore David Patterson played a large role; and of a key naval action in the Civil War, in which Admiral David Farragut opened the southern Mississippi to Union forces."

Niantic

CVE-46
D03 HMS Ranee - Ameer-class escort carrier

YTB-781 - Natick-class harbor tug

"A city, river and bay in Connecticut."

Nimitz

CVN-68 - Nimitz-class nuclear supercarrier

Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966), commander of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II.

Note: Nimitz was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Texas, about 70 miles from San Antonio, the home of The Carrier Project. Fredericksburg is the site of the National Museum of the Pacific War and the Nimitz Museum.

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