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HMS Una
HMS ''Una'' was a British U-class submarine, of the second group of that class, built at Chatham Dockyard. She was laid down on 7 May 1940 and was commissioned on 27 September 1941. Career She spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean from early 1942, where she sank the Italian tanker ''Luciana'', the Italian fishing vessel ''Maria Immacolata'', and the Italian merchants and ''Petrarca''. Controversially, the ''Lucania'' was a tanker which had been granted immunity by the Admiralty, as she was to serve as a replenishment ship for an Italian ship repatriating civilians from East Africa; the submarine's commander, Lieutenant D.S.R. Martin, was ill and had not read the Admiralty signal before departure. She also damaged two sailing vessels and the Italian merchant ''Cosala'' (the former Yugoslavian ''Serafin Topic''). The damaged Italian ship was grounded, but declared a total loss and eventually sank during a storm. She was unlucky on numerous occasions, unsucc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Una and UNA may refer to: People * Una (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Arts and entertainment * Una (film), ''Una'' (film), a 2016 drama * ''Una'', a 1981 novel by Momo Kapor * ''The Una'', a woman's rights magazine, launched 1853 * UNA (band), ''UNA'' (band), an American electronica band * Una (song), "Una" (song), by Sponge Cola, 2004 Rivers * Places * Una, Bahia, Brazil * Una, Himachal Pradesh, India ** Una district ** Una, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency ** Una Himachal railway station * Una, Gujarat, India ** Una, Gujarat Assembly constituency * Una, Mississippi, United States * Uña, Castile-La Mancha, Spain * Una National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina * 160 Una, an asteroid named after the Faerie Queene character Businesses and organisations Political groups * United for a New Alternative, Argentina * United Nationalist Alliance, Philippines * United Nationalities Alliance, Myanmar * United Negros Alliance, Philippin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British U-class Submarine
The British U-class submarines (officially "War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull") were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War. The class is sometimes known as the ''Undine'' class, after the first submarine built. A further development was the British V-class submarine of 1942. At the start of the Second World War the U class was, with the British S and T-class submarines, the Dutch and German Type VII one of the most advanced submarine classes in service. Background The Royal Navy was limited to no more than of submarines by the London Naval Treaty of 1930. The tonnage limit led to proposals for smaller submarines which was also prompted by trials with larger submarines demonstrating that they were easier to find and lacked manoeuvrability. By coincidence the First World War-vintage H-class submarines used for training in anti-submarine warfare were reaching the end of their useful service. The Rear-Admiral Subma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submarine
A submarine (often shortened to sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) The term "submarine" is also sometimes used historically or informally to refer to remotely operated vehicles and Autonomous underwater vehicle, robots, or to medium-sized or smaller vessels (such as the midget submarine and the wet sub). Submarines are referred to as ''boats'' rather than ''ships'' regardless of their size. Although experimental submarines had been built earlier, submarine design took off during the 19th century, and submarines were adopted by several navies. They were first used widely during World War I (1914–1918), and are now used in many navy, navies, large and small. Their military uses include: attacking enemy surface ships (merchant and military) or other submarines; aircraft carrier protection; Blockade runner, blockade running; Ballistic missile submarine, nuclear deterrenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British 21 Inch Torpedo
There have been a number of 21-inch (53.3cm) torpedoes in service with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Torpedoes of 21-inch calibre were the largest torpedoes in common use in the RN. They were used by surface ships and submarines; aircraft used smaller British 18-inch torpedo, 18-inch torpedoes. Mark I The first British 21-inch torpedo came in two lengths, "Short" at , and "Long" at . The explosive charge was of guncotton, increased later to . The torpedoes were first deployed in the field in 1912 and primarily used by the s throughout most of their service during the First World War. Specifications: Mark I Short * Entered service: 1910 * Weight: * Length: * Explosive charge: Guncotton, Wet guncotton * Range and speed: at , at Mark I Long * Entered service: 1910 * Weight: * Length: * Explosive charge: Guncotton, Wet guncotton * Range and speed: at , at Mark II The Mark II, a prolific series of torpedoes used during the First World War, entered service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QF 3 Inch 20 Cwt
The QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German Zeppelins airships and bombers and on the Western Front in World War I. It was also common on British warships in World War I and submarines in World War II. 20 cwt referred to the weight of the barrel and breech, to differentiate it from other 3-inch guns (1cwt = 1 hundredweight = , hence the barrel and breech together weighed ). While other AA guns also had a bore of , the term ''3-inch'' was only ever used to identify this gun in the World War I era, and hence this is what writers are usually referring to by ''3-inch AA gun''. Design and development The gun was based on a prewar Vickers naval QF gun with modifications specified by the War Office in 1914. These (Mk I) included the introduction of a vertical sliding breech-block to allow semi-automatic operation. When the gun recoiled and ran forward after firing, the motion also opened the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The sea was an important rout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Una
HMS ''Una'' was a British U-class submarine, of the second group of that class, built at Chatham Dockyard. She was laid down on 7 May 1940 and was commissioned on 27 September 1941. Career She spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean from early 1942, where she sank the Italian tanker ''Luciana'', the Italian fishing vessel ''Maria Immacolata'', and the Italian merchants and ''Petrarca''. Controversially, the ''Lucania'' was a tanker which had been granted immunity by the Admiralty, as she was to serve as a replenishment ship for an Italian ship repatriating civilians from East Africa; the submarine's commander, Lieutenant D.S.R. Martin, was ill and had not read the Admiralty signal before departure. She also damaged two sailing vessels and the Italian merchant ''Cosala'' (the former Yugoslavian ''Serafin Topic''). The damaged Italian ship was grounded, but declared a total loss and eventually sank during a storm. She was unlucky on numerous occasions, unsucc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Pedestal
Operation Pedestal (, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as (), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. British ships, submarines and aircraft from Malta attacked Axis powers, Axis convoys to Italian Libya, Libya, during the North African Campaign (1940–1943). From 1940 to 1942, the Axis conducted the Siege of Malta (1940), Siege of Malta, with air and naval forces. Despite many losses, enough supplies were delivered by the British for the population and military forces on Malta to resist, although it ceased to be an offensive base for much of 1942. The crucial supply in Operation Pedestal was fuel, carried by , an American-owned tanker with a British crew. The convoy sailed from Britain on 3 August 1942 and passed through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean on the night of The Axis attempt to prevent the fifty ships of the convoy reaching Malta, using bombers, German E-boats, Italian MAS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Newby
George Eric Newby (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006) was an English travel writer. His works include '' A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'', '' The Last Grain Race'' and '' A Small Place in Italy''. Early life Newby was born in Barnes, London, and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London. His father, George, was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers, and his mother, (Minnie) Hilda (née Pomeroy) had been a dress model at Harrods. Newby was educated at St Paul's School; after leaving school he worked for two years at the Dorland advertising agency until 1938 when, at the age of 18,Nicholas Wroe"Around the world in 80 ways" ''The Guardian'', 9 June 2001. he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer '' Moshulu'' and took part in the " grain race" from Australia to Europe by way of Cape Horn. This voyage was subsequently described in '' The Last Grain Race'' and pictorially documented in ''Learning the Ropes''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And War In The Apennines
''Love and War in the Apennines'' is a 1971 Second World War memoir (with some changes of names and people and places, and some composite characters) by Eric Newby. In the United States the title was changed to ''When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away''. It was dramatised as the 2001 film '' In Love and War'' starring Callum Blue and Barbora Bobuľová. Overview After the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces in 1943, the author left the prisoner-of-war camp in which he had been held for a year, PG 49 at Fontanellato, and evaded the Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the Po River. In enforced isolation, he was sheltered and protected by an informal and highly courageous network of Italian peasants. Newby writes a powerful account of these idiosyncratic and selfless people and also of their bleak and very basic lifestyle. He undergoes a series of bizarre, funny and often dangerous incidents, and in the process meets Wanda, a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmillan Publishers, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and London and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The company's name is derived from a combination of the firm's predecessors. Harper & Brothers, founded in 1817 in New York, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row, which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scotland, Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, founded in 1819 in Glasgow, was acquired by News Corp in 1987 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for the firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain. HarperCollins operates publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
