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Wicher (other)
Wicher may refer to: People * Enos Regnet Wicher * Maria Wicher *Wicher Berkhoff, Dutch name of Vasily Berkov (1794–1870) Vehicles * ''Wicher''-class destroyer * ORP ''Wicher'' ** ORP ''Wicher'' (1928) ** ORP ''Wicher'' (1958) *PZL.44 Wicher Other uses * De Wicher, Kalenberg, Netherlands See also * Witcher (other) *Whicher (other) Whicher may refer to: *Jack Whicher (1814–1881), one of the original members of the Detective Branch at Scotland Yard ** The protagonist of the British TV series ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' is a British ser ... * Whitcher (surname) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enos Regnet Wicher
Enos Regnet Wicher was a professor of physics at Columbia University. He had been married to Rae Kidd, future star of the 1938 nudist movie "The Unashamed," while both were students at the University of Wisconsin 1935-37. During World War II he worked in the Wave Propagation Group at Columbia's Division of War Research and was alleged to have spied for Soviet intelligence with code name "Keen" (also "Kin").Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehrp.198/ref> He was married to Maria Wicher and the stepfather of Flora Wovschin, the most active Soviet spy revealed in the Venona project. Unofficially extradited to Mexico, Enos Wicher taught at Mexico City College. He joined the faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Harvey Mudd College in 1961 and taught there until 1975."Physics Department History" https://physics.hmc.edu/history/ References American spies for the Soviet Union American people in the Venona papers American communists Columbia Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Wicher
Maria Wicher was married to Professor Enos Wicher and was the mother of Flora Wovschin. The family were all spies for the Soviet Union during the 1940s. Maria had previously been married to Dr. William A. Wovschin, Flora's father. Her code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later absorbed by the National Security Agency), which ran from February 1, 1943, until Octob ... is "Dasha". Sources * References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wicher, Maria American spies for the Soviet Union American people in the Venona papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Berkov
Vasily Ivanovich Berkov (Russian: Василий Иванович Берков) (Dutch: Wicher Berkhoff) (21 August 1794 in Vriezenveen, Netherlands – 5 April 1870 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian shipbuilder and from 1829-1870 Director of the Admiralty Shipyard of Saint Petersburg, possibly in the rank of Counter-Admiral.According to Polovtsov (1896-1918), Berkov was "Head of the City Wharfs in Saint Petersburg (начальник с.-петербургской городской верфи)". The biography ends in 1840. According to Janssen and Jonker (ca. 1955), Berkov was "Head of the Naval Wharfs of Saint Petersburg (Chef van de Marinewerven in Sint-Petersburg)" and obtained the "rank and/or title oth possibleof Admiral (titel van Admiraal)". Harmsen (1966), states that Berkov was "Head of the Naval Wharf of St. Petersburg (Chef van de Marinewerf te St. Petersburg)". Hosmar (1976), claims Berkov was "Head of the Naval Wharfs of Kronstadt (Chef der Marinewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicher-class Destroyer
The ''Wicher''-class destroyers were a series of destroyers that served in the Polish Navy during World War II. Two ships of this class were built for the Second Polish Republic by Chantiers Navals Français during the late 1920s. They were modified versions of the s built for the French Navy. History After the World War I, Great War, Poland's shoreline was very short (only ) and there was no need to create a large naval force. Initially consisting merely of four naval trawlers and two Monitor (warship), monitors — all inherited from the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' — in 1924, the Polish Navy was to start the construction of nine submarines. As Poland's greatest possible enemy at that time was perceived to be the Soviet Union, their only task would be to secure supply convoys from France in case of a war. However, due to the economic crisis and the customs war with Germany, this plan had to be abandoned and eventually only three submarines were ordered from France. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORP Wicher
ORP ''Wicher'' (meaning "gale") was a name of two destroyers and one frigate of the Polish Navy: * commissioned in 1930 and sunk during the Invasion of Poland in 1939 * commissioned from the Soviet Union in 1958 and scrapped in 1974 * is a Type 31 frigate The Type 31 frigate or Inspiration class, and formerly known as the Type 31e frigate or General Purpose Frigate (GPF), is a planned class of frigate intended to enter service with the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the 2020s alongside the subm ... currently under construction. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wicher, Orp Polish Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORP Wicher (1928)
} ORP ''Wicher'', the lead ship of the , was a Polish Navy destroyer. She saw combat in the Invasion of Poland, which began World War II in Europe. She was the flagship of the Polish Navy, sunk by German bombers on 3 September 1939. Pre-war history The ship was built at Ateliers et Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, near Caen and construction took 4 years, almost two more than initially planned. The steam turbines were built by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in St. Nazaire, while the armament was mounted in the French Marine arsenal in Cherbourg. The ship was launched on 10 July 1928, but it was not until 8 July 1930, when she was finally commissioned by the Polish Navy in Cherbourg harbour. She was named ORP ''Wicher'' ( pl, gale), in accordance with the French tradition of naming destroyers after meteorological phenomena. A week later she arrived at Gdynia under the command of Commander Tadeusz Morgenstern-Podjazd and became the first modern ship of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORP Wicher (1958)
ORP ''Wicher'' () was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958. She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the ''Skoryy'' ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, . The ship was decommissioned in 1975, and scrapped. One of the 130 mm guns is preserved in the Polish Navy Museum in Gdynia. Remainings of the scrapped vessel were sunk at the beach in Hel as breakwater Breakwater may refer to: * Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach or harbour Places * Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia * Breakwater Island Breakwater Island () is a small island in the Palme ..., where they remain to this day. References 1949 ships Skoryy-class destroyers of the Polish Navy Cold War destroyers of Poland Ships built in the Soviet Union Ships built at Severnaya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Wicher
De Wicher is a drainage mill near the village of Kalenberg, Overijssel, Kalenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands. It is a hollow post windmill of the type called ''spinnenkop'' by the Dutch. The mill is in working order and used to drain the reed beds during winter to improve accessibility for thatching, reed cutters. History The predecessor of the current mill was the last windmill in the current De Weerribben-Wieden National Park. It was dismantled in 1942. By 1980 a foundation called ''Vrienden van de Weerribben'' got the idea of rebuilding this mill. The idea was taken up by Staatsbosbeheer (English: State Forest Management) and by 1982 the construction of the new mill was finished. Description ''De Wicher'' is what the Dutch describe as a ''spinnenkop'' (English: spiderhead mill). It is a small hollow post mill winded by a winch. The mill has common sails. The wooden stocks has a span of and . The stocks and ''brake wheel'' are carried on the ''windshaft'' and drive the ''wallo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witcher (other)
Witcher may refer to: * Witcher (surname) * Witcher Creek, a tributary of the Kanawha River in West Virginia, United States * Witcher Holes Creek, a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota * Dowser, a diviner who attempts to locate underground objects * Witcher, an English translation of the word ''vedmak'', a male witch in Slavic mythology * Witcher, a fictional occupation in Andrzej Sapkowski's novel series ''The Witcher'' See also *Wicher (other) *The Witcher (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whicher (other)
Whicher may refer to: *Jack Whicher (1814–1881), one of the original members of the Detective Branch at Scotland Yard ** The protagonist of the British TV series ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' is a British series of television films made by Hat Trick Productions for ITV, written by Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay. It stars Paddy Considine in the title role of detective inspector Jack Whicher of the Met ...'', based on the police officer * Ross Whicher (1918–2002), Canadian politician * Whicher Range, Western Australia ** Whicher National Park See also * Wicher (other) * Which (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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