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List Of Sunken Aircraft Carriers
With the advent of heavier-than-air flight, the aircraft carrier has become a decisive weapon at sea.Bishop & Chant, p. 1 In 1911 aircraft began to be successfully launched and landed on ships with the successful flight of a Curtiss Model D, Curtiss Pusher aboard .Bishop & Chant, p. 8 The British Royal Navy pioneered the first aircraft carrier with floatplanes, as flying boats under performed compared to traditional land based aircraft.Bishop & Chant, p. 9 The first true aircraft carrier was ,Polmar, p. 30 launched in late 1917 with a complement of 20 aircraft and a flight deck long and wide. The last aircraft carrier sunk in wartime was the , in Kure Harbour in July 1945. The greatest loss of life was the 2,046 killed on —a converted passenger liner with a small flight deck, carrying the Imperial Japanese Army's 64th Infantry Regiment. Submarines were the biggest enemy of aircraft carriers, having sunk eighteen throughout the World War II, Second World War. Most notably, t ...
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IJN Carrier Amagi Capsized Off Kure In 1946
IJN may refer to: * International Justice Network, a human rights organization * Imperial Japanese Navy, the navy of Japan from 1868 until it was dissolved in 1945 * ''IJN (wargame), IJN'', a 1978 wargame about naval combat in the Pacific during World War II * Institut Jean Nicod, a French interdisciplinary research center * Institut Jantung Negara, National Heart Institute of Malaysia * Intermountain Jewish News, an international weekly newspaper publication located in Denver, Colorado * Kalabari language (ISO 639-3 code ijn) {{disambig ...
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List (nautical)
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ...
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Battle Of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Japanese Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto suffered a decisive defeat by the United States Pacific Fleet, U.S. Pacific Fleet near Midway Atoll, about northwest of Oahu. Yamamoto had intended to capture Midway and lure out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet, especially the aircraft carriers which had escaped damage at Pearl Harbor. Before the battle, Japan desired to extend its Pacific defense perimeter, especially after the Doolittle Raid, Doolittle air raid of Tokyo in April 1942, and to clear the seas for attacks on Midway, Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii. A related Japanese Aleutian Islands campaign, attack on the Aleutian Islands began one day earlier, on 3 June. The Japanese strike force at Midway, known ...
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Japanese Aircraft Carrier Akagi 01
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Sparviero
Sparviero is Italian for Sparrowhawk Sparrowhawk (sometimes sparrow hawk) may refer to several species of small hawk in the subfamily Accipitrinae The Accipitrinae are the Family (biology), subfamily of the Accipitridae often known as the "true" hawks. The subfamily contains 73 s .... It can refer to: * Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero * Operation Sparviero, the Italian Army contribution to ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan * Pasotti F.9 Sparviero, an Italian four seat low wing touring aircraft * Pro.Mecc Sparviero, an Italian ultralight aircraft * Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero, a three-engined Italian medium bomber * Sparviero class patrol boat {{disambig ...
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Blockship
A blockship is a ship deliberately sunk to prevent a river, channel, or canal from being used as a waterway. It may either be sunk by a navy defending the waterway to prevent the ingress of attacking enemy forces, as in the case of at Portland Harbour in 1914; or it may be brought by enemy raiders and used to prevent the waterway from being used by the defending forces, as in the case of the three old cruisers , and scuttled during the Zeebrugge raid in 1918 to prevent the port from being used by the German navy. An early use was in 1667, during the Dutch Raid on the Medway and their attempts to do likewise in the Thames during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, when a number of warships and merchant ships commandeered by the Royal Navy were sunk in those rivers to attempt to stop the attacking forces. An even earlier use are the six 11th century Skuldelev ships in Roskilde Fjord, sunk to protect Roskilde from northern Vikings. They are now on display in the Viking Ship Museu ...
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Decima Flottiglia MAS
The ''Decima Flottiglia MAS'' (''Decima Flottiglia Motoscafi Armati Siluranti'', also known as ''La Decima'' or Xª MAS) (Italian for "10th Torpedo-Armed Motorboat Flotilla") was an Italian flotilla, with marines and commando frogman unit, of the ''Regia Marina'' (Royal Italian Navy). The acronym '' MAS'' also refers to various light torpedo boats used by the Regia Marina during World War I and World War II. ''Decima MAS'' was active during the Battle of the Mediterranean and took part in a number of daring raids on Allied shipping. These operations involved surface speedboats (such as the raid on Souda Bay), human torpedoes (the raid on Alexandria) and ''Gamma'' frogmen (against Gibraltar). During the campaign, ''Decima MAS'' took part in more than a dozen operations which sank or damaged five warships (totalling 78,000 tons) and 20 merchant ships (totalling 130,000 GRT). In 1943, after the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ousted, Italy left the Tripartite Pact. So ...
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Genova
Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean: it is the busiest city in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the history of commerce and trade in Europe, becoming one of the largest naval powers of the continent and considered among the wealthiest cities in the world. It was also nicknamed ''la Super ...
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CV Aquila LaSpezia Jun51 NAN5-63
CV, Cv, or cv may refer to: *Curriculum vitae, a summary of academic and professional history and achievements CV, Cv, or cv may also refer to: Businesses and organisations * Cargolux (IATA designator CV), a Luxembourg cargo airline * , a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities * Central Vermont Railway, a railway that operated in the New England states * Christian Voice (UK), a UK advocacy group * , a Brazilian criminal organization * , a student group at Columbia University Computing and electronics * Capacitance voltage profiling, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices * Computer vision, methods of extracting information and meaning from images and video * Constant voltage source, electrical description * CV/Gate, a control voltage and gate solution * Cross-validation (statistics), a method to separate data in machine learning Literature and media * ''CV'' (novel), a novel by Damon Knight * Character voice, or CV * CV Netwo ...
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HMS Biter (D97) Underway C1943
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Biter''. Another was planned: * was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and sold in 1802. * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1805. *HMS ''Biter'' was to have been a class wooden screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1846 but was cancelled in 1849. * was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855. She became a coal hulk in 1865 and was later renamed ''T16''. She was sold in 1904. * was a tender, previously the War Department vessel ''Sir William Reid''. She was transferred in 1905 and sold in 1923. * was an escort carrier launched in 1940. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease in 1942, transferred to the French Navy in 1945 and renamed ''Dixmude'', used as an accommodation ship from 1956 and was returned to the US Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful nav ...
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Sao Paulo At Sea (11522051596)
SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of Yugoslavia Science and technology * Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. ** Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, which assigns SAO catalogue entries * Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS) * Session-At-Once, a recording mode for optical discs Transportation * Saco Transportation Center, a train station in Saco, Maine, U.S., station code SAO * Sahel Aviation Service, Mali, ICAO airline code SAO * Airports in Greater São Paulo, Brazil, IATA airport code SAO People * Ligi Sao (born 1992), a Samoan rugby league player * Ron Sao, Western Australian politician Other uses * Sao (moon), a satellite of Neptune * Sao ...
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