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Torpedo-boats Of The German Navy (1871–1919)
Torpedo boats had been operated by the Imperial German Navy (German: ''Kaiserliche Marine'') from the very beginning. The "Imperial Navy" existed between 1871 and 1919. In 1870 there had been 14 tugboats and harbour vessels and 7 rowing boats, which had been armed with spar torpedoes to protect the Elbe and Weser during the Franco-Prussian War. Early torpedo vessels and boats Small torpedo boats – pre-war types 6 boats built at AG Weser, Bremen; 10 boats built at AG Vulcan, Stettin; 6 boats built at Schichau-Werke, Schichau, Elbing. The later USS Somers (TB-22), USS ''Somers'' was built as a private speculation by Schichau in 1897. Small and coastal torpedo boats in World War I Small torpedo boats 60 boats of ''S 7''-class had been built at Schichau, Elbing, 22 boats of ''S 66''-class had been built at Schichau and the boats G 88 and G 89 had been built at Germaniawerft in Kiel. The first boats had been stricken in 1905. The remaining boats had been renamed in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Torpedo Boat Project - 1871
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Torpedoboot S 42
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. These were inshore craft created to counter both the threat of battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and powerful torpedoes, and the overwhelming expense of building a like number of capital ships to counter an enemy's. A swarm of expendable torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. A fleet of torpedo boats could pose a similar threat to an adversary's capital ships, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them. The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to the era's naval strategists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-class Torpedo Boat
The A-class torpedo boats were a class of German single-funnelled torpedo boat/light destroyer designed by the Reichsmarineamt for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War. The A designation was to avoid confusion with older classes and designs. They were known as "coastal torpedo boats" (German: ''Küstentorpedoboote'') to differentiate from larger, ocean-going torpedo boats. Six groups of vessels were built under the class between 1914 and 1918, increasing in displacement from 109 tons to 335 tons. All had a raised forecastle, shallow draught, and carried one (for most) or two (for ''A1''-''A25'') torpedo tubes amidships. ''A1''–''A25'' * ''A2'' and ''A6'' were sunk by British destroyers on 1 May 1915 during the Battle off Noordhinder Bank. * ''A3'' was lost in 1915. * ''A15'' was sunk by French destroyers on 23 August 1915. * ''A13'' was bombed in dock in 1917. * ''A10'' was sunk by mines in 1918. * ''A7'' and ''A19'' were sunk by British an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMS A 68
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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
