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D68 Road (Isle Of Man)
D68 may refer to: *D. 68, String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, composed by Franz Schubert in 1813 *D-68, a Soviet 115mm tank gun. *D68 enterovirus, a member of the family Picornaviridae *HMAS Vampire (D68), V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) *HMS Barrosa (D68), later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy *HMS Gibraltar (D68), British large aircraft carrier design of World War II See also *2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak {{Letter-Number Combination Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D68 Enterovirus
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is a member of the ''Picornaviridae'' family, an enterovirus. First isolated in California in 1962 and once considered rare, it has been on a worldwide upswing in the 21st century. It is suspected of causing a polio-like disorder called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). Virology EV-D68 is one of the more than one hundred types of enteroviruses, a group of ssRNA viruses containing the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses. It is unenveloped. Unlike all other enteroviruses, EV-D68 displays acid lability and a lower optimum growth temperature, both characteristic features of the human rhinoviruses. It was previously called human rhinovirus 87 by some researchers. Since the year 2000, the original virus strains diversified and evolved a genetically distinct outbreak strain, clade B1. It is Clade B1, but not older strains, which has been associated with AFM and is neuropathic in animal models. Epidemiology Since its discovery in 1962, EV-D68 had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Vampire (D68)
HMAS ''Vampire'' was a V and W-class destroyer, V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Launched in 1917 as HMS ''Wallace'', the ship was renamed and commissioned into the RN later that year. ''Vampire'' was loaned to the RAN in 1933, and operated as a depot tender until just before World War II. Reactivated for war service, the destroyer served in the Mediterranean as part of the Scrap Iron Flotilla, and was escorting the British warships and during Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, their loss to Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea in December 1941. ''Vampire'' was sunk on 9 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft while sailing with the aircraft carrier from Trincomalee. Construction The destroyer was one of five V and W-class destroyer#Admiralty V class leaders, Admiralty V-class flotilla leaders ordered by the RN in the 1916–17 construction program.Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 143 Originally, there were to be differences in desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Barrosa (D68)
HMS ''Barrosa'' (D68) was a later or 1943 fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy. Design and construction The Battle-class was developed as a result of operational experience in the early years of the Second World War, which had shown that the Royal Navy's existing destroyers had inadequate anti-aircraft protection, and in particular, lacked a modern dual-purpose main gun armament, capable of dealing with both surface targets and air attack, with guns lacking the high elevation mountings necessary to deal with dive bombers. The resulting design was armed with two twin 4.5 inch high-angle gun-turrets of a new design mounted forward and a heavy close-in anti-aircraft armament, with 16 Battle-class destroyers ordered under the 1942 construction programme. For the 1943 construction programme, 24 Battle-class destroyers of a revised design (known as "1943 Battles") were ordered, with four destroyers (''Barrosa'', , ''Talavera'' and ''Trincomalee'') to be built by the Scottish shipbui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Gibraltar (D68)
The ''Malta''-class aircraft carrier was a British large aircraft carrier design of World War II. Four ships were ordered in 1943 for the Royal Navy, but changing tactical concepts, based on American experience in the Pacific War, caused repeated changes to the design, which was not completed before the end of the war. All four ships were cancelled in 1945 before they were laid down. Background In July 1942 the Royal Navy formed the Future Building Committee, chaired by the Deputy First Sea Lord, to examine the fleet's requirements for the rest of the war. Tasked with anticipating the Navy's readiness and requirements for January 1944, the committee realised that a major expansion of naval aviation was required, which meant that more aircraft carriers would be needed. Many factors combined to drive up the size of these new carriers, notably the increasing size and speed of aircraft and the desire to increase the numbers of aircraft aboard fleet carriers. Another important consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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