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INTERNATIONAL NAVAL REVIEW
NEW YORK HARBOR
July 4, 1976

Over 50 modern naval ships will rendezvous in New York Harbor July 4 for the International Naval Review (INR)sponsored by the United States Navy. 

The review, announced last July by Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf II, is one of the U.S. Navy's major contributions to the bicentennial observance. 

Acknowledgements have been received for naval ships representing 22 countries who will join 20 U.S. Navy ships in the INR. Nine countries will be represented in the INR through the participation of their sail training ships in Operation Sail '76. Several other nations are sending high-ranking officials in observer delegations, and decisions are still pending in a number of other world capitals. 

Led by the 80,000-ton super aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL, the U.S. Navy contingent for the review will include representative ship types, such as missile cruisers, frigates and destroyers, support ships and amphibious vessels. 

The INR ships are scheduled to arrive and anchor in the Hudson River and Upper Bay on Saturday, July 3. The review of naval ships will take place in conjunction with OPSAIL '76 on the following day. The reviewing party, on-board a naval unit of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, will sail down the Hudson River past the anchored warship review lines stretched over the 17-mile span from the George Washington Bridge to the Verrazano Bridge.

The ships will be pierside Monday, July 5, in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey's Hoboken, Jersey City, and Port Newark to host public viewing. On July 6, marching units and bands from the naval ships will participate in a lower Manhattan parade. 

Most of the naval ships are scheduled to depart New York on July 7.  

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THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES HAVE INDICATED THEIR INTENT TO SEND SHIPS TO THE INTERNATIONAL NAVAL REVIEW:

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[[country]] | [[type of ship]] | [[ship]]
ARGENTINA | Training ship* | ARA LIBERTAD (Q-2)
BELGIUM | Training sail ship* | ZENORE GRAMME
BRAZIL | Destroyer | To be announced
CANADA | Destroyer | HMCS IROQUOIS (DD-280)
CHILE | Training ship* | ESMERALDA (HE-43)
COLOMBIA | Training ship* | ARA GLORIA
DENMARK | Frigate | HOMS PEDERSKRAM (F352)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 2 Mine Sweepers | To be announced
FRANCE | Destroyer | DUPERRE (D 633)
       | Frigate | DROGOU (F 783)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY | Destroyer * | To be announced
ISRAEL | 2 Missile boats | To be announced
ITALY | Destroyer | SAN GIORGIO (D 562)
JAMAICA | Patrol boat | FORT CHARLES (P-7)
JAPAN | Training ship | KATORI (TV 3501)
      | Destroyer | NAGATSUKI (DD-167)
MEXICO | To be announced | To be announced
THE NETHERLANDS | Guided missile frigate |  To be announced
     | 2 Frigates | To be announced
NORWAY | Frigate | HNOMS TRONDHEIM (F-302)
PERU | To be announced | To be announced
PORTUGAL | 2 Frigates | To be announced
SPAIN | Frigate | ASURIAS (F-74)
     | Training ship* | JUAN SEBASTIAN 
TURKEY | Destroyer | DE ELCANO
UNITED KINGDOM | Guided missile destroyer | To be announced 
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* Indicates the ship will represent the country in both the International Naval Review and Operation Sail. 
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