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Pegaso-class Torpedo Boat
The ''Pegaso'' class was a class of 18 Italian sea-going steam-powered torpedo boats built between 1904 and 1909. They served in the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War, when one was sunk, and continued in use until the 1920s. Design In 1904, four High-Seas Torpedo Boats were laid down at the Pattison shipyard of Naples, to a design licensed from the British shipbuilder John I. Thornycroft & Company, Thornycroft. They were powered by two Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, triple expansion steam engines fed by two Thornycroft coal-fired water-tube boilers which gave driving two shafts and allowing the contract speed of to be reached. Two funnels were fitted. Torpedo armament consisted of three torpedo tubes, with a gun armament of two QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss, 57 mm/43 guns and one QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss, 47 mm/43 gun.Fraccaroli 1970, p. 78. While these four ships (known as the ''Perseo'' series) were built, launching and completing in 1905–06, work bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Calipso (1909)
''Calipso'' was the name of at least two ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1909 and discarded in 1927. * , a launched in 1937 and sunk in 1940. {{DEFAULTSORT:Calipso Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Pallade (1906)
''Pallade'' was the name of at least two ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1906 and discarded in 1923. * , a launched in 1937 and sunk in 1943. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pallade Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Procione (1905)
''Procione'' was the name of at least two ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1905 and discarded in 1924. * , an launched in 1937 and scuttled in 1943. {{DEFAULTSORT:Procione Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Pegaso (1905)
''Pegaso'' was the name of at least two ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1905 and discarded in 1923. * , an launched in 1936 and scuttled in 1943. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pegaso Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stromboli
Stromboli ( , ; scn, Struògnuli ) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the four active volcanoes in Italy. It is one of the eight Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc north of Sicily. Strabo writes that people believed that this is where Aeolus lived. The island, with an area of , represents the upper third of the volcano. Its population was about 500 . The volcano has erupted many times and is constantly active with minor eruptions, often visible from many points on the island and from the surrounding sea, giving rise to the island's nickname "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean". Etymology Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek name , (Στρογγύλη) which was derived from (, "round"), after the volcano's round, conical appearance when seen from a distance. Height and shape Stromboli is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the three active vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Perseo (1905)
''Perseo'' has been borne by at least three ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1905 and sunk in 1917. * , a launched in 1935 and sunk in 1943. * , a launched in 1978. Sold to Peru in 2006 and renamed ''Coronel Bolognesi''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Perseo Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto D'Ascoli
Porto d'Ascoli (Ascoli's Harbour) is a modern residential quarter of San Benedetto del Tronto in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche region. History It commemorates in its name the building of a port, in 1245, at the end of Tronto river, built for the concession of Frederick II for the town of Ascoli Piceno. Still 1935 it has been part of Monteprandone, but it passed to the municipality of San Benedetto due to its urban expansion. Geography Porto d'Ascoli is situated at the end of Tronto river, on the Riviera delle Palme (Marche), in the south of San Benedetto del Tronto and close to its urban area. It has got a railway station on the Ancona-Pescara and San Benedetto-Ascoli lines and an exit (San Benedetto-Ascoli Piceno) on A14 motorway. Between San Benedetto del Tronto and Porto d'Ascoli it lies the Riviera della Palme stadium home of Sambenedettese football club. Natural environment To the south of Porto d'Ascoli and on the Tronto river lies the Sentina, a nature re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neapolitan Frigate Torquato Tasso
Neapolitan means of or pertaining to Naples, a city in Italy; or to: Geography and history * Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city * Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and High Middle Ages * Kingdom of Naples * Kingdom of the Two Sicilies * Neapolitan Republic (other), various entities * Neapolitan War * Naples, Florida, which took its designation from the Italian city Music * Music of Naples or Neapolitan dance * Canzone Napoletana or Neapolitan song * Neapolitan School of music * Neapolitan chord (also known as Neapolitan sixth), the first inversion of a major chord built on the lowered second (supertonic) scale degree * Neapolitan scale * Neapolitan mass, a cantata-style mass Food * Neapolitan cuisine, a historical cuisine of Naples that date back to the Greco-Roman period to the modern days * Neapolitan ice cream, a mixture of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream side-by-side in the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minesweeper (ship)
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. History The earliest known usage of the naval mine dates to the Ming dynasty.Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 203–205. Dedicated minesweepers, however, only appeared many centuries later during the Crimean War, where they were deployed by the British. The Crimean War minesweepers were rowboats trailing grapnels to snag mines. Minesweeping technology picked up in the Russo-Japanese War, using aging torpedo boats as minesweepers. In Britain, naval leaders recognized before the outbreak of World War I that the development of sea mines was a threat to the nation's shipping and began efforts to counter the threat. Sir Arthur Wilson noted the real threat of the time was blockade aided by mines and not invasion. The function of the fishing fleet's trawlers with their trawl gear was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Torpedo Boat Spica (1905)
''Spica'' has been borne by at least four ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: * , a launched in 1905 and discarded in 1923. * , a launched in 1934. Sold to Sweden in 1940 and renamed HSwMS ''Romulus''. Decommissioned in 1958. * , an captured before launch by Germany in 1943. She was renamed ''TA45'' and launched in 1944. Sunk in 1945. * , a launched in 1989. {{DEFAULTSORT:Spica, Italian ship Italian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; grc-x-classical, Ἑλλήσποντος, translit=Hellēspontos, lit=Sea of Helle), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey. Together with the Bosporus, the Dardanelles forms the Turkish Straits. One of the world's narrowest straits used for international navigation, the Dardanelles connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and Mediterranean seas while also allowing passage to the Black Sea by extension via the Bosporus. The Dardanelles is long and wide. It has an average depth of with a maximum depth of at its narrowest point abreast the city of Çanakkale. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
