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HMT City Of Edinburgh II
HMT ''City of Edinburgh II'' was a trawler of the same name, launched at Dundee in late December 1907 and completed and registered in January 1908. She had a Gross Tonnage of 300 tons. She served during World War I and was wrecked in 1952. War service The Admiralty requisitioned ''City of Edinburgh'' in 1914, but then returned her to her owners. On 10 January 1915 the Admiralty again requisitioned her for war service. She received a 6-pounder gun and operated out of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, as an auxiliary patrol vessel. ''City of Edinburgh'' helped transport the Liverpool Rifles from Southampton to Le Havre on 24 February 1915. When the troop-transport was torpedoed on 24 April 1917 (Anzac Day , image = Dawn service gnangarra 03.jpg , caption = Anzac Day Dawn Service at Kings Park, Western Australia, 25 April 2009, 94th anniversary. , observedby = Australia Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands New ...), ''City of Edinburgh'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMT City Of Edinburgh Ship's Bell, Museum Of Liverpool
HMT may refer to: Science * Hexamethylenetetramine * Histamine N-methyltransferase * Histone methyltransferase * Host modulatory therapy Places * Ham Street railway station, in England * Hang Mei Tsuen stop, Hong Kong * Hemet-Ryan Airport, California, United States Organizations and Companies * HMT Limited (Hindustan Machine Tools Limited), an Indian watch manufacturer * Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, a music and theatre school in Germany * Zurich School of Music, Drama, and Dance, later merged into Zurich University of the Arts Other * Hamtai language, spoken in Papua New Guinea * Royal Navy ship prefixes: ** His Majesty's Trawler (see trawlers of the Royal Navy) ** Hired Military Transport, troopship ** ship prefixes A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara ( es, Sahara Español; ar, الصحراء الإسبانية, As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958 then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976. It had been one of the most recent acquisitions, as well as one of the last remaining holdings, of the Spanish Empire, which had once extended from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies. Between 1946 and 1958, the Spanish Sahara was amalgamated with the nearby Spanish-protected Cape Juby and Spanish Ifni to form a new colony, Spanish West Africa. This was reversed during the Ifni War when Ifni and the Sahara became provinces of Spain separately, two days apart, while Cape Juby was ceded to Morocco in the peace deal. Spain gave up its Saharan possession following Moroccan demands and international pressure, mainly from United Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishing Vessels Of Spain
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from fish stocking, stocked bodies of water such as fish pond, ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include gathering seafood by hand, hand-gathering, spearfishing, spearing, fish net, netting, angling, bowfishing, shooting and fish trap, trapping, as well as destructive fishing practices, more destructive and often illegal fishing, illegal techniques such as electrofishing, electrocution, blast fishing, blasting and cyanide fishing, poisoning. The term fishing broadly includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid) and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in aquaculture, controlled cultivations (fish farming). Nor is it normally applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
