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List Of Russian Fleet Hospital Ships
This article is a list of Russian Fleet hospital ships inactive, active, and historical. The purpose of a hospital ship is to provide a floating medical treatment facility, historically redundant warships were used in this role, though in modern navies, ships may be purpose-built for the role. Great Northern War (1700–1721) *Perl *Sankt Peterburg, frigate, 1712 *Straford *Svyatoy Nikolai, 1715-1717 Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) *Novaya Nadezhda *Riga *Slava Rossii Seven Years' War (1756–1763) *Shlisselburg *Svyatoy Nikolai *Uriil (Arhangel Uriil) *Urtriya Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) *Merkuriy *Nansi *Nordshteyn *Panteleymon *Providenciya Russo-Swedish War (1788–90) *Chayka *Gus' *Kholmogory *Turukhtan Crimean War (1853–1856) *Chesma, frigate *Kagul, frigate *Mariya, ship of the line *Midiya, frigate *Rostislav, ship of the line *Yagudiil, frigate Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) *Imperatritsa Mariya *Imperator Aleksandr Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) *Tsaritsa Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Treatment
A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different types of therapy. Not all therapies are effective. Many therapies can produce unwanted adverse effects. ''Medical treatment'' and ''therapy'' are generally considered synonyms. However, in the context of mental health, the term ''therapy'' may refer specifically to psychotherapy. History Before the creating of therapy as a formal procedure, people told stories to one another to inform and assist about the world. The term "healing through words" was used over 3,500 years ago in Greek and Egyptian writing. The term psychotherapy was invented in the 19th century, and psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud under a decade later. Semantic field The words ''care'', ''therapy'', ''treatment'', and ''intervention'' overlap in a sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuso Maru
SS ''Fuso Maru'' was a Japanese ocean liner that was torpedoed by the United States Navy submarine in the South China Sea northwest of Cape Mayraira, Luzon, the Philippines, at (), while she was travelling in Convoy MI-11 from Moji, Japan, to Miri, Borneo. Construction ''Fuso Maru'' was laid down in 1907 at the Barcay Curle Co. Ltd. shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. She was launched on 19 March 1908 and was completed in February 1909. She was built for the Russian East Asiatic Steamship Company and was named ''Russia''. She was renamed ''Fuso Maru'' when she was bought by the Japanese company Osaka Shosen K. K. - OSK Line on 24 December 1923. ''Fuso Maru'' was long, with a beam of and a depth of . The ship was assessed at . She had two triple expansion steam engines rated at 7,113 ihp (5,304 kilowatts) and driving two screws. She had two funnels and four masts. Pre-World War II career As ''Russia'', the ship completed her maiden voyage from Libau, Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Portugal (1886)
SS ''Portugal'' (russian: госпитальное судно "Португаль") was a steamship originally built by a French shipping company, but requisitioned for use as a Russian hospital ship during the First World War. On she was sunk by a torpedo from the German U-boat . History She was originally built in 1886 for the Brazil and River Plate Line of the Messageries Maritimes Company. She was chartered or purchased by the Russians for use as a hospital ship in the Black Sea. The ship, serviced to take up wounded soldiers along the sea shore Ardeshen, Rize Port, Fakhtia, Tiribon and Of, the ship could have the chance to make only five voyages, beginning on 27 February 1916. Sinking , 1916, ''Portugal'' was towing a string of small flat-bottomed boats to ferry wounded from the shore to the ship. Off Rizeh, on the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, she had stopped as one of the small boats was sinking and repairs were being made. The ship was not carrying wounded at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Hospital Ship Vpered
HS ''Vpered'' (russian: госпитальное судно "Вперёд") was a Russian hospital ship that was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM ''U-38'' on 8 July 1916. Construction SS ''Vpered'' was built at the Stabilimento Tecnico shipyard in Trieste, Italy, in 1898 for Azov Black Sea Steamship Company. She was launched and completed in the same year. The ship was assessed at . World War I and sinking ''Vpered'' was converted into a hospital ship when World War I broke out and operated in the Black Sea to evacuate wounded Russian soldiers from the Eastern Front. On 8 July 1916, ''Vpered'' was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM ''U-38'' in the Black Sea between Rize and Batum. She sank shortly after. She was not carrying any wounded soldiers at the time, but seven people died in her sinking. Her survivors were saved a short time later.П.Г.Усенко (P.G.Usenko)IСТОРIЇ ВЕЛИКОЇ ВIЙНИ 1914–1917 рр. НА ЧОРН ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Ship
A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. In the 19th century, redundant warships were used as moored hospitals for seamen. The Second Geneva Convention prohibits military attacks on hospital ships that meet specified requirements, though belligerent forces have right of inspection and may take patients, but not staff, as prisoners of war. History Early examples Hospital ships possibly existed in ancient times. The Athenian Navy had a ship named ''Therapia'', and the Roman Navy had a ship named ''Aesculapius'', their names indicating that they may have been hospital ships. The earliest British hospital ship may have been the vessel ''Goodwill'', which accompanied a Royal Navy squadron in the Mediterranean in 1608 and was used to house the sick sent aboard from other ships. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hospital Ships Sunk In World War I
During the First World War, many hospital ships were attacked, sometimes deliberately and sometimes as a result of mistaken identity. They were sunk by either torpedo, mine or surface attack. They were easy targets, since they carried hundreds of wounded soldiers from the front lines. Background A hospital ship (HS) is designated for primary function as a medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces or navies of various countries around the world, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. Hospital ships were covered under the Hague Convention X of 1907. Article four of the Hague Convention X outlined the restrictions for a hospital ship: *The ship should give medical assistance to wounded personnel of all nationalities *The ship must not be used for any military purpose *Ships must not interfere or hamper enemy combatant vessels *Belligerents as designated by the Hague Convention can search any hospital ship to investigate violati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Ships Of Russia
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