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HMS Comet (1910)
HMS ''Comet'' was one of 20 s built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1911 she saw active service in the First World War. Design and description The ''Acorn'' class marked a return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard did their own detailed design so that ships often varied in size.Gardiner & Gray, p. 74 The ''Acorn''s had an overall length of , a beam of , and a deep draught of . The ships displaced at deep load and their crew numbered 72 officers and ratings.Friedman, p. 295 The destroyers were powered by a single Parsons steam turbine that drove three propeller shafts using steam provided by four Yarrow boilers. The engines developed a total of and were designed for a speed of . ''Comet'' reached a speed of from during her sea trials. The ''Acorn''s had a range of at a cruising speed of . The primary armament of the ships consisted of a pair of BL M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great January Comet Of 1910
The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylight Comet,. was a comet which appeared in January 1910. It was already visible to the naked eye when it was first noticed, and many people independently "discovered" the comet. At its brightest, it outshone the planet Venus, and was possibly the brightest comet of the 20th century. Discovery The comet came to solar conjunction about 1 degree from the Sun on 17 December 1909 but was still about 1 AU from the Sun. In January the comet brightened rather suddenly, and was initially visible from the Southern Hemisphere only. A number of individuals claimed "discovery", but the comet is thought to have been first spotted by diamond miners in the Transvaal Colony, Transvaal before dawn on January 12, 1910, by which time it was already a prominent naked-eye object of apparent magnitude −1 with a declination of −29 (i.e. best seen from the Southern Hemisphere). The first person to study the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
