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German Fleet Tender Adolf Lüderitz
The ''Adolf Lüderitz'' was a depot ship, fleet tender of the Kriegsmarine, sometimes also known as an aviso. She was named after the Bremen Adolf Lüderitz, businessman Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886), whose land acquisition in 1883 in what is now Namibia led to the establishment of the German protected area German South West Africa the following year. Development and design For their growing number of small craft, the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine needed appropriately equipped escort ships for each flotilla, which served the boat crews as accommodation and the boats as fuel, torpedo, mine, ammunition, fresh water and food depot. Initially, from 1927 onwards, the old ''German tender Nordsee, Nordsee'' tender was converted accordingly and replaced by the newly built ''German fleet tender Tsingtau, Tsingtau'' in 1934. In January 1939, the was added as a second ship. In 1938 the Navy ordered two more, but considerably larger and faster S-boat escort ships, the ''Adolf L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Lüderitz
Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (16 July 1834 – end of October 1886) was a German merchant and the founder of German South West Africa, Imperial Germany's first colony. The coastal town of Lüderitz, located in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, is named after him. Early life Lüderitz was born on 16 July 1834 in the German city-state of Bremen to tobacco merchant Adolf Lüderitz and his wife Wilhelmine. He had one younger brother who later became his assistant. After graduating from school, Lüderitz attended the ''Handelsschule'' (Merchant's Gymnasium) in Bremen and then worked as an intern in his father's business. Between 1854 and 1859, he travelled among tobacco bourses in North America. He took up a position in Mexico, but the trader soon went bankrupt. He then bought a tobacco farm himself which was destroyed shortly thereafter during the Reform War. Bankrupt, he returned to Germany in 1859 and entered his father's business. His 1866 marriage to Emilie Louise ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laid Down
Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries from the shipbuilding company and the ultimate owners of the ship. Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber gave way to a central steel beam. Modern ships are most commonly built in a series of pre-fabricated, complete hull sections rather than around a single keel. The event recognized as the keel laying is the first joining of modular components, or the lowering of the first module into place in the building dock. It is now often called "keel authentication" and is the ceremonial beginning of the ship's life, although s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Schnellboot Flotilla
First most commonly refers to: * First, the ordinal form of the number 1 First or 1st may also refer to: Acronyms * Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array * Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope, of the Herschel Space Observatory * For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, an international youth organization * Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global forum Arts and entertainment Albums * ''1st'' (album), by Streets, 1983 * ''1ST'' (SixTones album), 2021 * ''First'' (David Gates album), 1973 * ''First'', by Denise Ho, 2001 * ''First'' (O'Bryan album), 2007 * ''First'' (Raymond Lam album), 2011 Extended plays * ''1st'', by The Rasmus, 1995 * ''First'' (Baroness EP), 2004 * ''First'' (Ferlyn G EP), 2015 Songs * "First" (Lindsay Lohan song), 2005 * "First" (Cold War Kids song), 2014 * "First", by Lauren Daigle from the album '' How Can It Be'', 2015 * "First", by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNoMS Uredd (P41)
HMS ''P41'' was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong. She was transferred to the exiled Exile is either an entity who is, or the state of being, away from one's home while being explicitly refused permission to return. Exile, exiled, exiles, The Exile, or The Exiles may also refer to: Exiles * Babylonian captivity, or Babylonia ... Royal Norwegian Navy before completion and renamed HNoMS ''Uredd''. She and one of the Norwegian B-class submarine, B-class in 1940 have so far been the only Norwegian submarines to have been sunk. Service history Ordered on 11 March 1940, the submarine was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness on 15 October 1940, and launched on 24 August 1941. She was transferred to Norwegian command on 7 December 1941. She served mostly as a patrol craft off the coast of Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied Norway, eventually completing a total of seven successful missions for the Royal Norwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
