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Messier 72 [SEP] time of discovery | Messier 72
Messier 72 (also known as M72 or NGC 6981) is a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain on August 29, 1780. French astronomer Charles Messier looked for it on the following October 4, and included it in his catalog. Both decided that it was a faint nebula... | comet of all time. Messier gave the comet a magnitude rating of 2.0, making it easily visible to the unaided eye. Messier also gave the comet an elongation angle of 140 degrees.
Messier came up against opposition from Navy astronomer Joseph Nicholas Delisle, who had employed Messier from October 1751, because Delisle w... | 129,200 | zeroshot-train |
Methylphenidate [SEP] time of discovery | Chemistry Detection in biological fluids.
The concentration of methylphenidate or ritalinic acid, its major metabolite, may be quantified in plasma, serum or whole blood in order to monitor compliance in those receiving the drug therapeutically, to confirm the diagnosis in potential poisoning victims or to assist in th... | to Brookefield", on March 29, 1688; "The Grove Landing", on July 10, 1688; "The Forrest", on Sep. 5, 1694; "Dan" on September 6, 1694; "Brookes Discovery", on Dec. 10, 1695; and "The Prospect", on Dec. 11, 1695. At the time of his death on January 7, 1730 at "Brookefield", Thomas had amassed over 7,000 acres (28 km²) o... | 129,201 | zeroshot-train |
Neodymium [SEP] time of discovery | Neodymium
Neodymium is a chemical element with the symbol Nd and atomic number 60. Neodymium belongs to the lanthanide series and is a rare-earth element. It is a hard, slightly malleable silvery metal, that quickly tarnishes in air and moisture. When oxidized, neodymium reacts quickly to produce pink, purple/blue and ... | Discovery and early history Early classification.
Before the time that ion-exchange methods and elution were available, the separation of the rare earths was primarily achieved by repeated precipitation or crystallisation. In those days, the first separation was into two main groups, the cerium earths (scandium, lantha... | 129,202 | zeroshot-train |
Neptune [SEP] time of discovery | . It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.
Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of ... | (309239) 2007 RW10
, provisionally known as , is a temporary quasi-satellite of Neptune. Observed from Neptune, it would appear to go around it during one Neptunian year but it actually orbits the Sun, not Neptune.
Discovery, orbit and physical properties.
was discovered by the Palomar Distant Solar System Survey on S... | 129,203 | zeroshot-train |
Omega Centauri [SEP] time of discovery | Omega Centauri
Omega Centauri (ω Cen or NGC 5139) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus that was first identified as a non-stellar object by Edmond Halley in 1677. Located at a distance of 15,800 light-years (4,850 pc), it is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way at a diameter of roughly 150 l... | Omega Centauri: Former Core of a Dwarf Galaxy?
- Omega Centauri: Proud Cluster or Sad Remnant?
- Omega Centauri at ESA/Hubble
- Omega Centauri on Wikisky.org
- Omega Centauri, Galactic Globular Clusters Database page
- Omega Centauri at Constellation Guide | 129,204 | zeroshot-train |
Orion Nebula [SEP] time of discovery | nebulous nature of the Orion Nebula is generally credited to French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, on November 26, 1610 when he made a record of observing it with a refracting telescope purchased by his patron Guillaume du Vair.
The first published observation of the nebula was by the Jesuit mathematician ... | discovery in 1860 when Arthur von Auwers discovered the nova T Scorpii.
NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula. NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, is an emission nebula and star-forming region.
Mythology.
In Greek mythology, the myths associated with Scorpio almost invariably als... | 129,205 | zeroshot-train |
Osmium [SEP] time of discovery | isotopes, but it has been observed only for , presumably due to very long half-lives. It is predicted that and can undergo double beta decay but this radioactivity has not been observed yet.
History.
Osmium was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston in London, England. The discovery of osmium... | Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore).
His own name derives from his grandmother Rebecca Smithson, widow of Joshua Hitchling. He attended Beverley Grammar School and there is a plaque over one of the entrances to the present school commemorating his discovery of the two elements, osmium and iridium.
He began to study... | 129,206 | zeroshot-train |
PSR B1257+12 [SEP] time of discovery | by the Executive Committee Working Group Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, including the names of stars adopted during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign. This stellar remnant is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names.
Pulsar.
Pulsar Discovery.
PSR B1257+12 was discovered by the Polish astronomer... | spins 642 times per second and, until the discovery of PSR J1748-2446ad in 2005, was identified as the fastest-spinning pulsar.
In August 1989, the observatory directly imaged an asteroid for the first time in history: 4769 Castalia. The following year, Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan made the discovery of pulsa... | 129,207 | zeroshot-train |
PSR J1719-1438 [SEP] time of discovery | PSR J1719−1438
PSR J1719-1438 is a millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 5.8 ms located about 4,000 ly from Earth in the direction of Serpens Cauda, one minute from the border with Ophiuchus. Millisecond pulsars are generally thought to begin as normal pulsars and then spin up by accreting matter from a binary compa... | on Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system, led to the discovery of Proxima Centauri b, a terrestrial planet with a minimum mass of .
Applications Pulsar planets.
Pulsar planets are planets orbiting pulsars, and several have been discovered using pulsar timing. The radial velocity variations of the pulsa... | 129,208 | zeroshot-train |
Piraeus Athena [SEP] time of discovery | Piraeus Athena
The Piraeus Athena is a bronze statue dated to the fourth century BCE. It currently resides in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
Discovery.
The Piraeus Athena was discovered in 1959, by workers who were drilling underground to install pipes. Bronze was first hit 1.5 meters below the ground; a few day... | SS Athena
Athena was a 50 m long passenger steamship built in 1893 at the Syros (later Neorion) Shipyards. It was the first metal steamship built at this shipyard, and it represented an example of the brief growth of Greek shipbuilding in the late 19th century, before its decline in the next decades. The ship was power... | 129,209 | zeroshot-train |
Plücker surface [SEP] time of discovery | Plücker surface
In algebraic geometry, a Plücker surface, studied by , is a quartic surface in 3-dimensional projective space with a double line and 8 nodes.
Construction.
For any quadric line complex, the lines of the complex in a plane envelop a quadric in the plane. A Plücker surface
depends on the choice of a quadr... | - 1865: On a New Geometry of Space "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" 14: 53–8
Awards.
Plücker was the recipient of the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1866.
See also.
- Plücker's conoid
- Plücker coordinates
- Plücker embedding
- Plücker formula
- Plücker surface
- Plücker matrix
- Timeline of lo... | 129,210 | zeroshot-train |
Promethium [SEP] time of discovery | nuclides were produced that certainly were not radioisotopes of neodymium or samarium, but there was a lack of chemical proof that element 61 was produced, and the discovery was not generally recognized. Promethium was first produced and characterized at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1945 by the separation and analy... | objective measurements of their atomic numbers. Hence, Moseley's discovery demonstrated that the atomic numbers of elements are not just rather arbitrary numbers based on chemistry and the intuition of chemists, but rather, they have a firm experimental basis from the physics of their X-ray spectra.
In addition, Mosele... | 129,211 | zeroshot-train |
Pyrgi Tablets [SEP] time of discovery | Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets, found in a 1964 excavation of a sanctuary of ancient Pyrgi on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy (today the town of Santa Severa), are three golden leaves that record a dedication made around 500 BC by Thefarie Velianas, king of Caere, to the Phoenician goddess ʻAshtaret. Pyrgi was the port ... | in a Semitic, more specifically Canaanite language (very closely related to Hebrew, and also relatively close to Aramaic and Ugaritic); hence there was no need for it to be "deciphered." And while the inscription can certainly be read, certain passages are philologically uncertain on account of perceived complications ... | 129,212 | zeroshot-train |
Rutherfordium [SEP] time of discovery | California. The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the element was disputed between Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 that International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established rutherfordium as the official name for the element.
History.
History Discovery.
Ruth... | known nuclide rutherfordium-261. However, between 2001 and 2005, the GSI team studied the reaction Cm(Mg,5n)Hs, and were able to confirm the decay data for hassium-269 and rutherfordium-261. It was found that the existing data on rutherfordium-261 was for an isomer, now designated rutherfordium-261m.
In May 2009, the J... | 129,213 | zeroshot-train |
Sagittarius Star Cloud [SEP] time of discovery | Sagittarius Star Cloud
The Sagittarius Star Cloud (also known as Messier 24 and IC 4715) is a star cloud in the constellation of Sagittarius, approximately 600 light years wide, which was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It is sometimes known as the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud to distinguish it from the Great Sa... | ...151
- IV Stars...161
- V Carving out the Universe...210
- VI The Solar System...237
- VII Beginnings and Endings...276
- Index...290
There are 32 pages of photographic plates:
Plates.
- I The Discovery of Pluto - Facing Page...16
- II The Milky Way in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross...17
- III The Milky Way ... | 129,214 | zeroshot-train |
Samarium [SEP] time of discovery | Samarium was discovered in 1879 by the French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran and named after the mineral samarskite from which it was isolated. The mineral itself was earlier named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thereby became the first person to have a chemical element ... | Discovery and early history Early classification.
Before the time that ion-exchange methods and elution were available, the separation of the rare earths was primarily achieved by repeated precipitation or crystallisation. In those days, the first separation was into two main groups, the cerium earths (scandium, lantha... | 129,215 | zeroshot-train |
Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal [SEP] time of discovery | Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal
The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin as the 8th satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Sextans. It is also an elliptical galaxy, and displays a redshift because it is receding from the Sun at 224 km/s (72 km/s f... | words, dwarf spheroidal galaxies could be prevented from achieving equilibrium due to the gravitational field of the Milky Way or other galaxy that they orbit. For example, the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy has a velocity dispersion of 7.9±1.3 km/s, which is a velocity dispersion that could not be explained solely by... | 129,216 | zeroshot-train |
Sierpinski triangle [SEP] time of discovery | triangle in 1915. However, similar patterns appear already in the 13th-century Cosmati mosaics in the cathedral of Anagni, Italy, and other places of central Italy, for carpets in many places such as the nave of the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, and for isolated triangles positioned in rotae in several chu... | 's Game of Life. For instance, the Life-like cellular automaton B1/S12 when applied to a single cell will generate four approximations of the Sierpinski triangle. A very long one cell thick line in standard life will create two mirrored Sierpinski triangles. The time-space diagram of a replicator pattern in a cellular ... | 129,217 | zeroshot-train |
Sperlonga sculptures [SEP] time of discovery | Sperlonga sculptures
The Sperlonga sculptures are a large and elaborate ensemble of ancient sculptures discovered in 1957 in the grounds of the former villa of the Emperor Tiberius at Sperlonga, on the coast between Rome and Naples. As reconstructed, the sculptures were arranged in groups around the interior of a large... | sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed by three sculptors including an Agesander.
Sculptures.
The name Agesander is only found in ancient literature in Pliny the Elder, but occurs in several inscriptions, though between them these certainly refer to a number of different individuals. Until the discovery at ... | 129,218 | zeroshot-train |
Speyer wine bottle [SEP] time of discovery | Speyer wine bottle
The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It is considered the world's oldest known bottle of wine.
History.
The Speyer wine bottle most likely holds wine, and was orig... | known as "the world's oldest existing bottle of wine". The bottle has been dated between 325 and 350 AD and is the oldest known unopened bottle of wine in the world. Since its discovery, it has been exhibited at the Wine Museum section of the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, always displayed in the same l... | 129,219 | zeroshot-train |
Spillings Hoard [SEP] time of discovery | Spillings Hoard
The Spillings Hoard () is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on Friday 16July 1999 in a field at the Spilling farm northwest of Slite, on northern Gotland, Sweden. The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of before conservation and consisted of, among other things, 14,2... | only to the Spillings Hoard found on Gotland, Sweden.
The coins in the hoard are from three sources, represented in the proportions 5:1:1. Viking kingdoms of eastern England are represented in the largest portion; the other two portions are of Alfred's Kingdom of Wessex and of coins from foreign sources, which include ... | 129,220 | zeroshot-train |
The Geysers [SEP] time of discovery | Wappo people, and the Lake Miwok people. The Wappo also collected sulfur which they called "te'ke" and a Wappo village, named "tekena'ntsonoma" ("teke" sulphur + "nan" well containing water + "tso" ground + "no'ma" village) was located about southeast of Cloverdale and on the present-day Sulphur Creek.
The Geysers were... | series of missions including Ulysses, Mars 96, Cluster, Cassini, Rosetta, BepiColombo, and Solar Orbiter. His magnetometer on the Cassini Saturn orbiter found the first signatures that led to the discovery of geysers on the moon Enceladus.
During this time he also was a co-investigator on the magnetometer team led by M... | 129,221 | zeroshot-train |
Venus of Brassempouy [SEP] time of discovery | France. Two caves near the village, 100 metres from each other, were among the first Paleolithic sites to be explored in France. They are known as the "Galerie des Hyènes" (Gallery of the Hyenas) and the "Grotte du Pape" (the "Pope's Cave"). The Venus of Brassempouy was discovered in the Pope's Cave in 1894, accompanie... | Venus of Brassempouy
The Venus of Brassempouy (French: "la Dame de Brassempouy", meaning "Lady of Brassempouy", or "Dame à la Capuche", "Lady with the Hood") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. About 25,000 years old, it is one of the ... | 129,222 | zeroshot-train |
Venus of Savignano [SEP] time of discovery | Venus of Savignano
The Venus of Savignano is a Venus figurine made from soft greenstone (serpentine) dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, which was discovered in 1925 near Savignano sul Panaro in the Province of Modena, Italy.
With in height, in width and in depth, and with a weight of , it's one of the largest known ... | , Paolo Graziosi made a stylistic comparison between the Venus of Savignano and other figurines such as the "Venus of Trasimeno", the figurines from Balzi Rossi in Ventimiglia and the recently discovered (1940) "Venus of Chiozza di Scandiano" in Reggio Emilia; due to that, he again confirmed the Upper Paleolithic age o... | 129,223 | zeroshot-train |
Vidovdanka [SEP] time of discovery | Vidovdanka
Vidovdanka is a Late Mesolithic anthropomorphic figurine (cult image) made of terracotta regarded as symbol of the Vinča culture, which flourished in prehistoric Serbia in 5500 BC. It was excavated at deep at Vinča, Serbia on the day of Vidovdan (hence the name) in 1930. It stands tall. | to Brookefield", on March 29, 1688; "The Grove Landing", on July 10, 1688; "The Forrest", on Sep. 5, 1694; "Dan" on September 6, 1694; "Brookes Discovery", on Dec. 10, 1695; and "The Prospect", on Dec. 11, 1695. At the time of his death on January 7, 1730 at "Brookefield", Thomas had amassed over 7,000 acres (28 km²) o... | 129,224 | zeroshot-train |
WASP-12 [SEP] time of discovery | WASP-12
WASP-12 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star located approximately 1300 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. WASP-12 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun. Its planet WASP-12b has a retrograde orbit around WASP-12. Two red dwarf companions have been detected around WASP-12. Both have spectral types o... | a mean distance of 0.0142 AU every 0.813475 days (19.5234 hours); this orbital period, at the time of WASP-43b's discovery, was the second-shortest orbit yet detected, surpassed only by WASP-19b. In addition, WASP-43b had the closest orbit to its host star (among Hot Jupiters) at the time of its discovery, comparable o... | 129,225 | zeroshot-train |
Wireworld [SEP] time of discovery | Wireworld
Wireworld is a cellular automaton first proposed by Brian Silverman in 1987, as part of his program Phantom Fish Tank. It subsequently became more widely known as a result of an article in the "Computer Recreations" column of "Scientific American". Wireworld is particularly suited to simulating electronic log... | value of one) in any direction, both orthogonal and diagonal.
These simple rules can be used to construct logic gates (see below).
Applications.
Entities built within Wireworld universes include Langton's Ant (allowing any Langton's Ant pattern to be built within Wireworld) and the Wireworld computer, a Turing-complete... | 129,226 | zeroshot-train |
843 Nicolaia [SEP] time of discovery | 843 Nicolaia
843 Nicolaia is an asteroid of the main-belt discovered by H. Thiele on 30 September 1916. It was a lost asteroid for 65 years before being rediscovered by Astronomisches Rechen-Institut at Heidelberg in 1981. | the time these results were published, only the nine numbered minor planets 330 Adalberta, 473 Nolli, 719 Albert, 724 Hapag, 843 Nicolaia, 878 Mildred, 1009 Sirene, 1026 Ingrid, and 1179 Mally remained unobserved since their discoveries:
- Other notable recoveries
- While studying in Chicago in 1928, Zhang Yuzhe discov... | 129,227 | zeroshot-train |
Elk's Head of Huittinen [SEP] time of discovery | Elk's Head of Huittinen
Elk's Head of Huittinen (, also known as Moose's Head) is a Mesolithic moose head figurine of soapstone found in 1903 from Huittinen in the province of Satakunta, Finland. The sculpture is dated to between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago. It is placed in the permanent exhibition of National Museum of ... | Finns 29.7%
- Centre Party 24.1%
- National Coalition Party 18.1%
- Social Democratic Party 13.9%
- Left Alliance 7.2%
- Green League 3.4%
- Christian Democrats 3.1%
International relations.
International relations Twin towns — Sister cities.
Huittinen is twinned with:
- Keila, Estonia
- Odda, Norway
- Stenungsund, Swe... | 129,228 | zeroshot-train |
Farnese Hercules [SEP] time of discovery | for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome (dedicated in 216 AD), where the statue was recovered in 1546, and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. The heroically-scaled "Hercules" is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, and has fixed the image of the mythic hero in the European imagination.
The "Far... | Palazzo Farnese, the Farnese family's palatial residence in Rome. This sculpture is dated to the Severian period (A.D. 222-235).
Unlike the discoveries of the Farnese Hercules and the Latin Hercules from this excavation, which were documented as to their location, the only reference to this grouping is from a 1595 engr... | 129,229 | zeroshot-train |
Penicillin [SEP] time of discovery | of this group may not actually be allergic. Serious allergies only occur in about 0.03%. Those who are allergic to penicillin are most often given cephalosporin C because of its functional groups. All penicillins are β-lactam antibiotics, which are some of the most powerful and successful achievements in modern science... | the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with a British discovery, penicillin.
Awards and honours.
Fleming's discovery of penicillin changed the world of modern medicine by introducing the age of useful... | 129,230 | zeroshot-train |
Psyb0t [SEP] time of discovery | Psyb0t
Psyb0t or Network Bluepill is a computer worm discovered in January 2009. It is thought to be unique in that it can infect routers and high-speed modems.
Progress.
Psyb0t was first detected in January 2009 by Australian security researcher Terry Baume in a Netcomm NB5 ADSL router/modem. Then, in early March, it ... | public attention to it in later March which probably caused its operator to shut it down. Also DroneBL successfully attempted to bring its command-and-control and its DNS servers down.
Description.
Psyb0t targets modems and routers with little-endian MIPS processor running on Mipsel Linux firmware. It is a part of botn... | 129,231 | zeroshot-train |
Ötzi [SEP] time of discovery | Copper Age) Europeans. His body and belongings are displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.
Discovery.
Ötzi was found on 19 September 1991 by two German tourists, at an elevation of on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border. The tou... | his coat. The discovery of the arrowhead prompted researchers to theorize Ötzi died of blood loss from the wound, which would probably have been fatal even if modern medical techniques had been available. Further research found that the arrow's shaft had been removed before death, and close examination of the body foun... | 129,232 | zeroshot-train |
Dysprosium [SEP] time of discovery | Dysprosium
Dysprosium is a chemical element with the symbol Dy and atomic number 66. It is a rare earth element with a metallic silver luster. Dysprosium is never found in nature as a free element, though it is found in various minerals, such as xenotime. Naturally occurring dysprosium is composed of seven isotopes, th... | Discovery and early history Early classification.
Before the time that ion-exchange methods and elution were available, the separation of the rare earths was primarily achieved by repeated precipitation or crystallisation. In those days, the first separation was into two main groups, the cerium earths (scandium, lantha... | 129,233 | zeroshot-train |
Fornax Dwarf [SEP] time of discovery | Fornax Dwarf
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa on photographic plates taken by the 24 inch (61 cm) Bruce refractor at Boyden Observatory, shortly after he discovered the Sculp... | 2MASS J02431371−2453298
2MASS J02431371−2453298 (abbreviated to 2MASS 0243−2453) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T6, located in the constellation Fornax about 34.84 light-years from Earth.
Discovery.
2MASS 0243−2453 was discovered in 2002 by Adam J. Burgasser et al. from Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), conducted ... | 129,234 | zeroshot-train |
Mersenne Twister [SEP] time of discovery | Mersenne Twister
The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). It is by far the most widely used general-purpose PRNG. Its name derives from the fact that its period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.
The Mersenne Twister was developed in 1997 by and . It was designed specifically to rectify mos... | , a significant decrease compared to the original's 2.5 KiB of state. However, it has a period of 2−1, far shorter than the original, so it is only recommended by the authors in cases where memory is at a premium.
External links.
- The academic paper for MT, and related articles by Makoto Matsumoto
- Mersenne Twister h... | 129,235 | zeroshot-train |
BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5) [SEP] vessel class | BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)
The BRP "Datu Sikatuna" (PF-5) was one of the three ex-USN s that served with the Philippine Navy, the others being and .
History.
Commissioned in the US Navy as the in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for transatlantic convoys. She served in the Pacific... | these upgrades, she was formally commissioned to the Philippine Navy in 1980, and formed the backbone of the Philippine Fleet together with 2 of her sister ships and other ex-US Navy destroyer escorts. She was reclassified as BRP "Datu Sikatuna" (PF-5) in July 1980, now using the "BRP" ship naming standard and carrying... | 129,236 | zeroshot-train |
Brazilian submarine Humaitá (S20) [SEP] vessel class | Brazilian submarine Humaitá (S20)
Brazilian submarine "Humaitá" (S20) was an "Oberon"-class submarine in the Brazilian Navy.
Design and construction.
The submarine, built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at their shipyard in Barrow, was laid down on 3 November 1970, and launched on 5 October 1971. She was commis... | , serving the Amazonas town
- Humaitã River, a river in southern Brazil.
Military.
- Fortress of Humaitá, a strategic defence system in Paraguay, 1854–1868
- Passage of Humaitá, the 1868 naval operation during the Paraguayan War in which the fortress was bypassed by the Brazilian fleet
- Siege of Humaitá, the 1868 mili... | 129,237 | zeroshot-train |
Carnival Breeze [SEP] vessel class | Carnival Breeze
Carnival Breeze is a "Dream"-class cruise ship of Carnival Cruise Line which was laid down on 20 November 2008, launched on 16 September 2011 and completed on 3 June 2012.
Concept and construction.
"Carnival Breeze" is the third and last "Dream"-class ship built for Carnival but Costa Crociere also oper... | its homeport is now Galveston. On May 10, 2010, Carnival selected a name for their new "Dream"-class vessel in 2012 - "Carnival Breeze".
On 26 October 2012, it was announced that Carnival had ordered a brand new 133,500 GT ship for their Carnival Cruise Line brand. This ship, built by Fincantieri, was the largest ship ... | 129,238 | zeroshot-train |
Carnival Splendor [SEP] vessel class | Carnival Splendor
Carnival Splendor is the sole ship of the "Splendor" class, a smaller, modified version of the Concordia-class cruise ship, operated by Costa. She entered service on 2 July 2008. At , she was the largest ship in Carnival Cruise Line until "Carnival Dream" debuted in September 2009. "Carnival Splendor"... | A retractable macrodome was also added for the main pool. Another notable difference is the enlargement of its spa facilities. Each ship has a 21,000-ft (2,000-m) wellness facility. Additional spa cabins were also included into the "Concordia" class.
Carnival operates only a single vessel in this class, "Carnival Splen... | 129,239 | zeroshot-train |
Celebrity Constellation [SEP] vessel class | Celebrity Constellation
GTS "Celebrity Constellation is a "Millennium"-class cruise ship of Celebrity Cruises. She was originally named Constellation", but renamed in May 2007. Her three sister ships are the "Celebrity Infinity", "Summit", and "Millennium".
She was built at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St.... | Marella Explorer 2
Marella Explorer 2, formerly Celebrity Century & SkySea Golden Era, was the lead ship of the "Century"-class of cruise ships for Celebrity Cruises, and the co-flagship of the Celebrity fleet, along with "Millennium"-class ship "Celebrity Constellation", and the newest "Solstice"-class, "Celebrity Ref... | 129,240 | zeroshot-train |
Celebrity Equinox [SEP] vessel class | Celebrity Equinox
Celebrity Equinox is a "Solstice"-class cruise ship built by Meyer Werft in Germany. "Celebrity Equinox" is the second of the five "Solstice"-class vessels, owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She is a sister ship of "Celebrity Solstice", "Celebrity Eclipse", "Celebrity Silhouette" and the "Celeb... | Celebrity Silhouette
Celebrity Silhouette is a , owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises.
History.
"Celebrity Silhouette" is the fourth ship in the "Solstice" class, her sister ships being "Celebrity Equinox", "Celebrity Eclipse", "Celebrity Solstice" and "Celebrity Reflection". "Solstice", "Equinox", and "Eclipse" ent... | 129,241 | zeroshot-train |
Celebrity Reflection [SEP] vessel class | Celebrity Reflection
Celebrity Reflection is the fifth, final, and largest , her sister ships being "Celebrity Equinox", "Celebrity Eclipse", "Celebrity Solstice" and "Celebrity Silhouette". "Solstice", "Equinox", "Eclipse" and "Silhouette" entered service in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively. "Reflection" was la... | Celebrity Equinox
Celebrity Equinox is a "Solstice"-class cruise ship built by Meyer Werft in Germany. "Celebrity Equinox" is the second of the five "Solstice"-class vessels, owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She is a sister ship of "Celebrity Solstice", "Celebrity Eclipse", "Celebrity Silhouette" and the "Celeb... | 129,242 | zeroshot-train |
Celebrity Summit [SEP] vessel class | Celebrity Summit
Celebrity Summit is a "Millennium"-class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises and as such one of the first cruise ships to be powered by more environmentally friendly gas turbines. Originally named Summit, she was renamed with the "Celebrity" prefix in 2008.
Construction.
She was built i... | Solstice-class cruise ship
The Solstice class is a class of cruise ships primarily operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. The class is constructed by Meyer Werft of Germany. At present, there are five active "Solstice"-class ships: the lead vessel of the class, "Celebrity Solstice";... | 129,243 | zeroshot-train |
Costa Concordia [SEP] vessel class | Costa Concordia
Costa Concordia () was a built in 2004 by the Fincantieris Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by the Costa Crociere subsidiary of Carnival Corporation. It was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy on 13 January 2012 due to a collision with a submerged rock; the ... | Free Enterprise"
- ex-
- MV "Janra"
- MV "Repubblica di Genova"
- MSC "Napoli"'s separated stern section
- Barge "Larvik Rock"
- Fishing trawler "Nieuwpoort 28"
- Fishing vessel "Sandy Point"
- MS "Costa Concordia"
- Jackup work barge "Sep Orion"
External links.
- FFPV "Rocknes" salvage
- Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December ... | 129,244 | zeroshot-train |
Costa Diadema [SEP] vessel class | Costa Diadema
Costa Diadema is a "Dream"-class cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere. The ship was ordered in October 2012 and was delivered to Costa on October 25, 2014.
"Costa Diadema" is the largest vessel flying an Italian flag and currently Costa Crociere's flagship. It was launched on 15 November 2013 by her "ma... | Costa Fascinosa
Costa Fascinosa is a "Concordia"-class cruise ship that was ordered in October 2007 for Costa Crociere. Based on the "Concordia" class design, "Costa Fascinosa" was constructed by Fincantieris Marghera shipyard in Venice. Part of a five-ship expansion of the Costa Crociere fleet, the vessel entered serv... | 129,245 | zeroshot-train |
Costa Fascinosa [SEP] vessel class | Costa Fascinosa
Costa Fascinosa is a "Concordia"-class cruise ship that was ordered in October 2007 for Costa Crociere. Based on the "Concordia" class design, "Costa Fascinosa" was constructed by Fincantieris Marghera shipyard in Venice. Part of a five-ship expansion of the Costa Crociere fleet, the vessel entered serv... | Costa Favolosa
Costa Favolosa is a cruise ship ordered for Costa Crociere in October 2007. Based on the "Concordia" class design, "Costa Favolosa" was laid down by Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard on 5 November 2009 and launched on 6 August 2010. Part of a five-ship expansion of the Costa Crociere fleet, the vessel ente... | 129,246 | zeroshot-train |
Costa Pacifica [SEP] vessel class | Costa Pacifica
Costa Pacifica is a "Concordia"-class cruise ship for Costa Crociere. She was handed over to Costa Crociere on 29 May 2009. Her sister ships, "Costa Concordia" and "Costa Serena", were launched in 2006 and in 2007, with "Costa Favolosa" and "Costa Fascinosa" launched in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Concep... | ", for Princess Cruises; and "Costa Pacifica", for Costa Cruises. The four ships, and the options, were simultaneously ordered by Carnival Corporation for US$3 billion.
The "Carnival Dream" then launched at Monfalcone on 24 October 2008. The ship was delivered on 17 September 2009, eleven months after her launch, at th... | 129,247 | zeroshot-train |
Costa Serena [SEP] vessel class | Costa Serena
Costa Serena is a "Concordia"-class cruise ship for the Italian cruise line, Costa Crociere. The name Serena was intended to symbolize harmony and serenity.
"Costa Serena" was constructed by Fincantieri in Sestri Ponente. She had an older sister ship, "Costa Concordia", launched in 2005. The ship, along wi... | Costa Pacifica
Costa Pacifica is a "Concordia"-class cruise ship for Costa Crociere. She was handed over to Costa Crociere on 29 May 2009. Her sister ships, "Costa Concordia" and "Costa Serena", were launched in 2006 and in 2007, with "Costa Favolosa" and "Costa Fascinosa" launched in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Concep... | 129,248 | zeroshot-train |
French ironclad Invincible [SEP] vessel class | French ironclad Invincible
The French ironclad "Invincible" was the second of the three wooden-hulled s built for the French Navy in 1858–62. The ships of the "Gloire" class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the length of... | the Tiwi Islands, Australia
Transportation and craft.
Transportation and craft Ships.
- "Hector" (ship), the vessel that carried the first Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia in 1773
- "Hector" (steamboat 1897), a fishing and tug boat
- Hector class ship of the line, a French Navy class
- French ship "Hector" (1756), le... | 129,249 | zeroshot-train |
French ironclad Normandie [SEP] vessel class | French ironclad Normandie
The French ironclad "Normandie" was the third and last of the three wooden-hulled s built for the French Navy in 1858–62. The ships of the "Gloire" class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the len... | a Royalist French army unit created in 1616
Ships.
- French ship "Normandie" (1835), a Seine ferry built at Le Havre in 1835,
- French ironclad "Normandie", in service 1862–71
- "Normandie"-class battleship, five ships planned for use by the French Navy in World War I but never completed
- SS "Normandie", an ocean line... | 129,250 | zeroshot-train |
German destroyer Z6 Theodor Riedel [SEP] vessel class | German destroyer Z6 Theodor Riedel
The German destroyer "Z6 Theodor Riedel" was a built for the "Kriegsmarine" during the mid-1930s. At the beginning of World War II in September 1939, the ship laid defensive minefields to the North Sea. She covered her sister ships over the next few months as they laid offensive minef... | :
- "Desaix" (ex-German destroyer Z5 "Paul Jacobi") 1946–1954
- "Kléber" (D603) (ex-German destroyer Z6 "Theodor Riedel") 1946–1957
- Type 1936A-class and 1936A (Mob)-class destroyer
- "Marceau" (D601) (ex-German destroyer Z31) 1946–1958
- "Hoche" (D602) (ex-German destroyer Z25) 1946–1958
- "Léopard" (ex-German destro... | 129,251 | zeroshot-train |
German submarine U-203 [SEP] vessel class | German submarine U-203
German submarine "U-203" was a German Type VIIC submarine U-boat built for Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" for service during World War II.
Built as yard number 632 of Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft AG in Kiel, she was laid down on 28 March 1940, launched on 4 January 1941 and commissioned on 18 Feb... | USNS "Mission San Fernando" (T-AO-122), renamed USNS "Vanguard" in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
- ST "Vanguard", a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named "Empire Pine"
- "Ocean Vanguard", a British freighter sunk in 1942 by the German submarine German submarine "U-515"
- "Vanguard"-class submarine, the Roya... | 129,252 | zeroshot-train |
German submarine U-750 [SEP] vessel class | German submarine U-750
German submarine "U-750" was a German Type VIIC submarine U-boat built for Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" for service during World War II.
Design.
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. "U-750" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. S... | USNS "Mission San Fernando" (T-AO-122), renamed USNS "Vanguard" in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
- ST "Vanguard", a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named "Empire Pine"
- "Ocean Vanguard", a British freighter sunk in 1942 by the German submarine German submarine "U-515"
- "Vanguard"-class submarine, the Roya... | 129,253 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Albany (ACPB 86) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Albany (ACPB 86)
HMAS "Albany" (ACPB 86), named for the city of Albany, Western Australia, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale" class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-di... | of the Royal Navy
- HMAS "Albany" (ACPB 86), an Armidale–class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy
- MV "Empire Albany", later renamed "Albany"
- USS "Albany", the name of five ships of the US Navy, all named for Albany, New York
Transportation Road.
- Albany (1903 automobile), an early British automobile
- Albany... | 129,254 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Ararat (ACPB 89) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Ararat (ACPB 89)
HMAS "Ararat" (ACPB 89), named for the town of Ararat, Victoria, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-displacemen... | HMAS Wollongong (ACPB 92)
HMAS "Wollongong" (ACPB 92), named for the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale" class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. T... | 129,255 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155)
HMAS "Ballarat" (FFH 155) is an "Anzac"-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The frigate was laid down in 2000 and commissioned into the RAN in mid-2004. Since entering service, "Ballarat" has been involved in border protection as part of Operation Relex II, was deployed to the Gulf... | The Doctor Blake Mysteries" (2012–2017) is set in Ballarat and also mostly shot there. The series was picked by the Seven Network, which proposes to make several telemovies without the Blake character, picking up the story line after his death, leaving his widow Jean.
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been na... | 129,256 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Black Snake [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Black Snake
HMAS "Black Snake" was a Snake-class junk built for the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was launched in 1944 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 30 December 1944. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) and was paid off on 3 November 1945, befo... | HMAS Mother Snake
HMAS "Mother Snake" was an auxiliary vessel operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. She was launched in 1944, as Australian Army AV 1354 "Murchison" transferred to the RAN and commissioned on 23 May 1945. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department and was p... | 129,257 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Childers (ACPB 93) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Childers (ACPB 93)
HMAS "Childers" (ACPB 93) is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Named for the towns of Childers, Queensland and Childers, Victoria, "Childers" is the only ship in the RAN to be named after two towns.
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are ... | side of the central enclosed roundel in Brompton Cemetery, London.
See also.
- Childers, Queensland, town named after Childers
- HMAS Childers (ACPB 93), Australian ship named after the town
Biography.
- "The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Hugh C.E. Childers", Spencer Childers, 1901
- "The Educational Activiti... | 129,258 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Diamond Snake [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Diamond Snake
HMAS "Diamond Snake" was a Snake-class junk built for the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was launched in 1945 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 23 July 1945. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department and was paid off on 19 October 1945, before bei... | HMAS Mother Snake
HMAS "Mother Snake" was an auxiliary vessel operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. She was launched in 1944, as Australian Army AV 1354 "Murchison" transferred to the RAN and commissioned on 23 May 1945. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department and was p... | 129,259 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Geelong (FCPB 215) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Geelong (FCPB 215)
HMAS "Geelong" (FCPB 215), named for the city of Geelong, Victoria, was a "Fremantle" class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
Starting in the late 1960s, planning began for a new class of patrol boat to replace the "Attack" class, with designs calling for i... | Dressmaker (2015) was filmed in and around Little River.
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named after Geelong, HMAS "Geelong" (J201) and HMAS "Geelong" (FCPB 215).
The 2011 movie Contagion mentions the Australian Animal Health Laboratory located in Geelong.
Public services.
Public services Education.
Ge... | 129,260 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Glenelg (ACPB 96) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Glenelg (ACPB 96)
HMAS "Glenelg" (ACPB 96), named for the city of Glenelg, South Australia is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-di... | In May 2018, the BRP "Dioscoro Papa" participated in the "Third Combined Maritime Security Activity" with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) along with the BRP "General Mariano Alvarez" (PS-38), BRP "Anastacio Cacayorin" (PC-381), BRP "Cebu" (PS-28) and BRP "Filipino Flojo" (PC-386). The RAN sent the vessels HMAS "Albany"... | 129,261 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Huon (D50) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Huon (D50)
HMAS "Huon" (D50), named after the Huon River, was a of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Originally to be named after the River Derwent, the ship was renamed before her 1914 launch because of a naming conflict with a Royal Navy vessel.
"Huon" was commissioned into the RAN in late 1915, and after complet... | twelve "Arafura"-class offshore patrol vessels based on the Lürssen OPV80 design, to replace 26 small vessels of the Armidale, Huon, Leeuwin and Paluma classes. Construction started in November 2018, with the first vessel, HMAS Arafura to enter service in Q4 2021.
- "Project SEA 1429 Phase 2" is upgrading the "Collins"... | 129,262 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Larrakia (ACPB 84) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Larrakia (ACPB 84)
HMAS "Larrakia" (ACPB 84) is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-displacement vee hull is fabricated from alumini... | HMAS Larrakia
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS "Larrakia", after the Larrakia Aborigines:
- HMAS "Larrakia", an air-sea rescue and patrol vessel operated during World War II
- , an "Armidale"-class patrol boat commissioned in 2006 and operational as of 2016
Battle honours.
Ships named HMAS "L... | 129,263 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Maitland (ACPB 88) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Maitland (ACPB 88)
HMAS "Maitland" (ACPB 88), named for the city of Maitland, New South Wales, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The sem... | HMAS Wollongong (ACPB 92)
HMAS "Wollongong" (ACPB 92), named for the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale" class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. T... | 129,264 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Nestor (G02) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Nestor (G02)
HMAS "Nestor" (G02) was an N-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in Scotland, "Nestor" was commissioned in February 1941; although manned by Australians and commissioned as an Australian warship, she remained the property of the Royal Navy.
Entering service in 1941, "Nestor" spen... | Napier (G97)
1208. HMAS Nepal (G25)
1209. HMAS Nestor (G02)
1210. HMAS Nizam (G38)
1211. HMAS Norman (G49)
1212. HMAS Parkes
1213. HMAS Parramatta (U44)
1214. HMAS Patricia Cam
1215. HMAS Perth (D29)
1216. HMAS Pirie (J189)
1217. HMAS Platypus (1917)
1218. HMAS Quadrant (G11)
1219. HMAS Quality (G62)
1220. HMAS Queenbo... | 129,265 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Orion [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Orion
HMAS "Orion" (S 61) was an "Oberon" class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of six submarines ordered by the RAN during the 1960s, "Orion", named after the constellation in a break from ship-naming tradition, was built in Scotland and commissioned in 1977. "Orion" was one of two Oberon-class ... | Goulburn", Bathurst-class corvette
- HMAS "Huon", River-class torpedo-boat destroyer
- HMAS "J1", J-class submarine, refit
- HMAS "Kangaroo", Bar-class boom defence vessel
- HMAS "Karangi", Bar-class boom defence vessel
- HMAS "Koala", Bar-class boom defence vessel
- HMAS "Kookaburra", Net-class boom defence vessel
- H... | 129,266 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Ovens [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Ovens
HMAS "Ovens" (S 70) was an "Oberon"-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was one of six "Oberon"s built for the Royal Australian Navy by the Scottish Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, and entered service in 1969. The vessel was named for Irishman and Australian explorer John Ove... | encompassing the district
Places Elsewhere.
- Ovens, County Cork, a village in Ireland
- Ovens Auditorium, an auditorium in Charlotte, North Carolina
People.
- Denis Ovens (born 1957), English darts player
- Gilbert Ovens (1884 or 1885 to 1963), English footballer
- John Ovens (1788–1825), Australian civil engineer and... | 129,267 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Pirie (ACPB 87) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Pirie (ACPB 87)
HMAS "Pirie" (ACPB 87), named for the city of Port Pirie, South Australia, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-di... | photographer, civic leader and peace activist
Places.
- Pirie Peninsula, Laurie Island, British Antarctic Territory
- Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Ships.
- HMAS "Pirie" (J189), a Royal Australian Navy Second World War corvette
- HMAS "Pirie" (ACPB 87), a patrol boat
See also.
- Port Pirie (disambiguation), a... | 129,268 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Sea Snake [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Sea Snake
HMAS "Sea Snake" was an auxiliary junk built for the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was launched in 1945 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 31 March 1945. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department and was paid off on 27 November 1945, before being hand... | HMAS Larrakia
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS "Larrakia", after the Larrakia Aborigines:
- HMAS "Larrakia", an air-sea rescue and patrol vessel operated during World War II
- , an "Armidale"-class patrol boat commissioned in 2006 and operational as of 2016
Battle honours.
Ships named HMAS "L... | 129,269 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Tarakan (L3017) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Tarakan (L3017)
HMAS "Tarakan" (L3017) was a Mark III Tank Landing Ship, or LST(3), that served in the Royal Navy (RN) during 1945 and 1946 and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1946 until 1954.
History.
The ship was laid down on 7 April 1944 for the RN by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company at Hebburn-on-Tyne i... | Tarakan (disambiguation)
Tarakan is an island city in North Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Tarakan may also refer to:
- Mount Tarakan, a volcano in the Halmahera islands
- Battle of Tarakan (1942), a battle in World War II
- Battle of Tarakan (1945), a battle in World War II
- HMAS Tarakan (L 129), a heavy landing craft commis... | 129,270 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Warrnambool (FCPB 204) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Warrnambool (FCPB 204)
HMAS "Warrnambool" (FCPB 204), named after the city of Warrnambool, Victoria, was a "Fremantle"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
Starting in the late 1960s, planning began for a new class of patrol boat to replace the "Attack" class, with designs... | HMAS Wollongong (FCPB 206)
HMAS "Wollongong" (FCPB 206), named for the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, was one of fifteen "Fremantle" class patrol boats to operate with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). "Wollongong" is the only RAN vessel to have appeared in two television series, portraying a fictional "Fremantle"... | 129,271 | zeroshot-train |
HMAS Wollongong (ACPB 92) [SEP] vessel class | HMAS Wollongong (ACPB 92)
HMAS "Wollongong" (ACPB 92), named for the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale" class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. T... | HMAS Pirie (ACPB 87)
HMAS "Pirie" (ACPB 87), named for the city of Port Pirie, South Australia, is an "Armidale"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction.
The "Armidale"-class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons. The semi-di... | 129,272 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Belleville [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Belleville
HMCS "Belleville" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Belleville, Ontario. After the war she was sold to the Dominican Navy and served with them until 1972.
Background.... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,273 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Camrose [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Camrose
HMCS "Camrose" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She was named for Camrose, Alberta.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Camrose" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were different from earlier and more tradition... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,274 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Forrest Hill [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Forest Hill
HMCS "Forest Hill ( HMCS "Forrest Hill) was a modified that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was originally laid down by the Royal Navy as HMS "Ceanothos" but was never commissioned into the RN, b... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,275 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Grou [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Grou
HMCS "Grou" was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as an ocean convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Jean Grou, a Roman Catholic martyr from Pointe-aux-Trembles, Quebec. The town's name was considered to lon... | and English. The plaque itself has been missing in recent years (through 2009), but the following is its English inscription:
The register of Point-aux-Trembles of Montreal, dated 2 November 1694, completed the history of that battle. An English translation of that text follows,
According to Jean Martin, Ph.D., Directo... | 129,276 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Hawkesbury [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Hawkesbury
HMCS "Hawkesbury" was a modified that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Hawkesbury, Ontario.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Hawkesbury" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy d... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,277 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS La Malbaie [SEP] vessel class | HMCS La Malbaie
HMCS "La Malbaie" was a Royal Canadian Navy revised which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for La Malbaie, Quebec. She was originally named "Fort William" but her name was changed before commissioning.
Backgr... | HMCS Fort William
Two Canadian naval units have been named HMCS "Fort William".
- (I) was a Second World War renamed "La Malbaie" before commissioning.
- (II) was a Second World War sold to Turkey in 1957 and renamed "Bodrum". | 129,278 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Merrittonia [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Merrittonia
HMCS "Merrittonia" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Merritton, Ontario. Her name was altered at the request of the town council. She was originally named HMCS "Poin... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,279 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Moose Jaw [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Moose Jaw
HMCS "Moose Jaw" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. Together with , she achieved the RCN's first U-boat kill of the war. She was named after Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Moose Jaw" serving with the Royal Cana... | .
References Bibliography.
- HMCS "Moose Jaw" (K164) on uboat.net
- HMCS "Moose Jaw" (K164) on the Juno Beach Centre website
- HMCS "Moose Jaw" on the Arnold Hague database at convoyweb.org.uk.
External links.
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive | 129,280 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS North Bay [SEP] vessel class | HMCS North Bay
HMCS "North Bay" was a modified that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for North Bay, Ontario.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "North Bay" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy durin... | HMCS Goose Bay
HMCS "Goose Bay" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1998. "Goose Bay" is the eighth ship of her class which is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. She is the first vessel to be named "Goose Bay". The coastal defence vessel is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARL... | 129,281 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Oakville [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Oakville
HMCS "Oakville" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war she was sold to the Venezuelan Navy. She was named after Oakville, Ontario.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Oakville" se... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,282 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Peterborough [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Peterborough
HMCS "Peterborough" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Peterborough, Ontario. After the war she was sold to the Dominican Navy.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes li... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,283 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Pictou [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Pictou
HMCS "Pictou" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought mainly in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Pictou" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World W... | Pictou (disambiguation)
Pictou is a Canadian town in Nova Scotia.
Pictou may also refer to:
- Pictou County, Nova Scotia, one of Nova Scotia's 18 counties.
- HMCS "Pictou" (K146), a "Flower"-class corvette.
- Pictou (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia.
- Pictou (provincial electoral distri... | 129,284 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Port Arthur [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Port Arthur
HMCS "Port Arthur" was a Royal Canadian Navy revised which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Port Arthur, Ontario.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Port Arthur" serving with the Royal Canadian Nav... | The vessel was laid down on 26 August 1942 by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Ltd. at Port Arthur, Ontario and launched 3 May 1943. The ship was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 18 May 1944 at Port Arthur.
Background.
The class to which she belonged had been designed to overcome certain weaknesses which ha... | 129,285 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Poundmaker [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Poundmaker
HMCS "Poundmaker" was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. It saw action as a convoy escort during the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for the Poundmaker Cree Nation of Saskatchewan. After the war she was sold to Peru and renamed "Teniente Fer... | 1952, discarded 1966.
- BAP "Teniente Ferré" (1944) F-3, in 1959 FE-3, in 1960 FE-66. ex-HMCS "Poundmaker" (1947–1966) Purchased 1947, and initially known as "Teniente Ferré", but by 1954 or 1955 as "Ferré", modernised with new guns and fire control in US 1952, discarded 1966.
"Carvajal" (modified "Lupo") class, 2,500 ... | 129,286 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Rimouski [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Rimouski
HMCS "Rimouski" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named after Rimouski, Quebec.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Rimouski" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second... | HMCS Onondaga (S73)
HMCS "Onondaga" (S73) is an that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Built in the mid-1960s, "Onondaga" operated primarily with the Maritime Forces Atlantic until her decommissioning in 2000 as the last Canadian "Oberon".
Several plans for the disposal of the submarine w... | 129,287 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Runnymede [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Runnymede
HMCS "Runnymede" was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for York, Ontario, however due to possible confusion with , her name reflects a connection with that commun... | ,
Dundas Street between Runnymede and Keele is the heart of the Maltese diaspora.
HMCS "Runnymede", a World War II Royal Canadian Navy vessel, was named after the Runnymede neighbourhood.
See also.
- Scarlett Road
External links.
- Roads reveal history of city's early settlers | 129,288 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Smiths Falls [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Smiths Falls
HMCS "Smiths Falls" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Smiths Falls, Ontario. She was the last Flower-class corvette to enter service with the RCN.
Background.
Flowe... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,289 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS St. Lambert [SEP] vessel class | HMCS St. Lambert
HMCS "St. Lambert" was a modified that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Saint-Lambert, Quebec.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "St. Lambert" serving with the Royal Canadian N... | Sep Lambert
Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert (3 August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland – 21 April 1959 in Dublin) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921, including seven first-class matches.
Lambert was educated at Rathmines School ... | 129,290 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS St. Pierre [SEP] vessel class | HMCS St. Pierre
HMCS "St. Pierre" was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action as a convoy escort during the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec, whose name was shortened due to its length. After the war she was sold to P... | HMCS Porte St. Louis (YMG 183)
HMCS "Porte St. Louis" was a gate vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Construction and career.
"Porte St. Louis" was built by George T. Davie & Sons, Lauzon, being laid down on 21 March 1951 and launched on 23 July 1952. She was commissioned on 29 August 1952 and like her sister ships, too... | 129,291 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Stellarton [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Stellarton
HMCS "Stellarton" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Stellarton, Nova Scotia. After the war she was sold to the Chilean Navy.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,292 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Strathroy [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Strathroy
HMCS "Strathroy" was a modified that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Strathroy-Caradoc, Ontario. After the war she was sold to the Chilean Navy.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like ... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,293 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Trentonian [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Trentonian
HMCS "Trentonian" was a modified that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic and the English Channel as a convoy escort. She was named for Trenton, Ontario, though due to a naming conflict with another vessel, her name was chan... | 1988 in memory of the fallen of all conflicts, with a special memorialization to the lives lost in the sinking of HMCS "Trentonian", a ship named for the city of Trenton and lost during World War II.
Design.
A broken column suggests lives cut off early. For the 1988 rededication, two benches were added; one for "rededi... | 129,294 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Weyburn [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Weyburn
HMCS "Weyburn" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She was sunk by mine in 1943.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Weyburn" serving with the Royal C... | for HMCS Spikenard, sunk on February 11, 1942 with a loss of 77;
- Weyburn Road for HMCS Weyburn, sunk on February 22, 1943 with a loss of 5.
There are many websites describing the ships. One of the more detailed ones is www.uboat.net. | 129,295 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Windflower [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Windflower
HMCS "Windflower" was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Windflower" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were different from earlier and more tradit... | 1284. HMCS Sioux (R64)
1285. HMCS Skeena (D59)
1286. HMCS Snowberry (K166)
1287. HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
1288. HMCS Stratford (J310)
1289. HMCS Sudbury (K162)
1290. HMCS Suderoy
1291. HMCS Summerside (K141)
1292. HMCS Ungava (J149)
1293. HMCS Vegreville (J257)
1294. HMCS Windflower (K155)
1295. HMHS Newfoundland
1296. H... | 129,296 | zeroshot-train |
HMCS Woodstock [SEP] vessel class | HMCS Woodstock
HMCS "Woodstock" was a Royal Canadian Navy revised that took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Woodstock, Ontario.
Background.
Flower-class corvettes like "Woodstock" serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during ... | HMCS Edmonton
HMCS "Edmonton" is a that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1997. "Edmonton" is the fourth ship of its class, all of which were built for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. The ship is the first vessel to use the designation HMCS "Edmonton". The ship is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ... | 129,297 | zeroshot-train |
HMS Alaric (P441) [SEP] vessel class | HMS Alaric (P441)
HMS "Alaric" (P441), was an "Amphion"-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird laid down in May 1944 and launched 18 February 1946.
Design.
Like all Amphion-class submarines, "Alaric" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. It had a total length of , a beam leng... | P417/S67)
- "Ambush" (P418)
- "Anchorite" (P422)
- "Andrew" (P423/S63)
- "Affray" (P421)
- "Aeneas" (P427/S72)
- "Alaric" (P441)
- "Artemis" (P449/S49)
- "Artful" (P456/S96)
- "Acheron" (P411/S61)
- "Ace" (P414)
- "Achates" ( | 129,298 | zeroshot-train |
HMS Anguilla (K500) [SEP] vessel class | HMS Anguilla
HMS "Anguilla" (K500) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom in commission from 1943 to 1946 that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy as the "Tacoma"-class patrol frigate USS "Hallowell" (PF-72), later renamed USS "Machias" (PF-72), and was transferred... | Transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 15 October 1943, the ship served in the Royal Navy as HMS "Anguilla" (K500) on patrol and escort duty until 1946. On 29 April 1945, while escorting Convoy RA-66 outbound from the Soviet port of Murmansk, she joined the frigates and in sinking the German submarine "U... | 129,299 | zeroshot-train |
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