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The vessels of the Navy shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy under direction of the President according to the following rule: Sailing-vessels of the first class shall be named after the States of the Union, those of the second class after the rivers, those of the third class after the principal cities and towns and those of the fourth class as the President may direct.
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Metomkin may refer to:
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here. (See ship namesake paragraph.)
- 1 2 Niebuhr, David H. (1993). "The Metompkin Islands: A Case Study in Ownership and Management of a Dynamic Barrier System". Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539617654 – via College of William & Mary.
- ↑ Byrnes, Mark R.; Gingerich, Kathryn J. (1987). "Cross-island profile response to Hurricane Gloria". Coastal Sediments. 2: 1486–1502.
- ↑ Theberge, N.B. (1992). "An inventory of state owned lands along the Atlantic coast of Accomack and Northampton Counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia, A public record prepared for state and local use". Department of Ocean and Coastal Law: 7–8 – via Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
- ↑ "Metomkin". history.navy.mil. Naval History and Heritage Command. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
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