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SMS Lacroma
SMS ''Tiger'' was a torpedo cruiser built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the mid-1880s. An enlarged and improved version of the , she was part of a program to build up Austria-Hungary's fleet of torpedo craft in the 1880s. The ''Panther'' class, purchased from a British shipyard, was acquired in part to gain experience building cruisers of the type; this provided the basis for the design of ''Tiger''. She was keel laying, laid down at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in October 1886, she was ship launching, launched in June 1887, and was completed in March 1888. The ship was armed with a battery of four guns and three torpedo tubes, and was capable of speeds in excess of . ''Tiger''s career was fairly uneventful; for the majority of her active duty career, she was activated only for the summer training maneuvers in June and July. She participated in a major cruise to Germany in 1890, which saw numerous visits to other countries along the way. In 1897, she took par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMS Tiger NH 88919
Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text messages. An intermediary service can facilitate a text-to-voice conversion to be sent to landlines. SMS technology originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers that used standardized phone protocols. These were defined in 1986 as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) series of standards.GSM Doc 28/85 "Services and Facilities to be provided in the GSM System" rev2, June 1985 The first SMS message was sent on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a test engineer for Sema Group, sent "Merry Christmas" to the Orbitel 901 phone of colleague Richard Jarvis. SMS rolled out commercially on many cellular networks that decade and became hugely popular worldwide as a method of text communication. By the end of 2010, SMS w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
