Photo, left: USS Cheng Ho (IX-52), named for Cheng He (1371–1433), a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. Cheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.
Cheng He was born into a Muslim family in the Hui people. However, his religious beliefs became all-embracing and eclectic in his adulthood. The Liujiagang and Changle inscriptions suggest that Zheng He's devotion to Tianfei (Mazu) (the patron goddess of sailors and seafarers) was the dominant faith to which he adhered, reflecting the goddess' central role to the treasure fleet. He was the great-great-great-grandson of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar, a Persian who served in the administration of the Mongol Empire and was the Governor of Yunnan during the early Yuan Dynasty.
由香港亞金船廠建造, 曾經歷偷襲珍珠港
See Hour 4, Blocks A & B, Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels by Ken W Sayers. Uncommon Warriors recounts the histories of some of the most obscure, unusual and specialized vessels the U.S. Navy has ever operated—those designated AG (Miscellaneous Auxiliary) and IX (Miscellaneous Unclassified Unit). 
 
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Hour One
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 1, Block A: Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. by Larry Berman (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 1, Block B: Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. by Larry Berman (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 1, Block C: Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. by Larry Berman (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 1, Block D: Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. by Larry Berman (4 of 4)
 
Hour Two
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 2, Block A: A Plain Sailorman in China: The Life of and Times of Cdr. I.V. Gillis, USN, 1875-1943 by Bruce Swanson, Vance H. Morrison, Don H. McDowell and Nancy Norton Tomasko (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 2, Block B: A Plain Sailorman in China: The Life of and Times of Cdr. I.V. Gillis, USN, 1875-1943 by Bruce Swanson, Vance H. Morrison, Don H. McDowell and Nancy Norton Tomasko (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 2, Block C: A Plain Sailorman in China: The Life of and Times of Cdr. I.V. Gillis, USN, 1875-1943 by Bruce Swanson, Vance H. Morrison, Don H. McDowell and Nancy Norton Tomasko  (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 2, Block D: A Plain Sailorman in China: The Life of and Times of Cdr. I.V. Gillis, USN, 1875-1943 by Bruce Swanson, Vance H. Morrison, Don H. McDowell and Nancy Norton Tomasko  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 3, Block A: Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) by David Curtis Skaggs (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 3, Block B: Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) by David Curtis Skaggs  (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 3, Block C: Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) by David Curtis Skaggs  (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 3, Block D: Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) by David Curtis Skaggs  (4 of 4)
 
 
Hour Four
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 4, Block A:  Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels by Ken W Sayers (1 of 2)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 4, Block B: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels by Ken W Sayers (2 of 2)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 4, Block C: Float Planes and Flying Boats: The U.S. Coast Guard and Early Naval Aviation by Capt. Robert B. Workman Jr. USCG (Ret.) (1 of 2)
Sunday 15 June  2014  / Hour 4, Block D: Float Planes and Flying Boats: The U.S. Coast Guard and Early Naval Aviation by Capt. Robert B. Workman Jr. USCG (Ret.) (2 of 2)
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