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unusual facts about ''Annibal'' class



A. L. Beattie

Baldwin Locomotive Works recommended a camelback design to solve the problem, but Beattie conceived the idea of an enhanced 4-6-0 truck to support a wide Wootten firebox.

American Ship Hull numbers

For example the Perth class guided missile destroyers that were built for the Royal Australian Navy in Bay City, Michigan were given the hull numbers DDG-25, DDG-26, and DDG-27; but these hull numbers were not assigned to any American destroyers after the Australian Navy had changed those to its own identification numbers.

Amphibious warfare ship

Earlier ships which played a similar role to the current vessels as the heart of an amphibious assault included five Iwo Jima class Landing Platform Helicopter vessels, built in the 1950s and 1960s, and various converted fleet and escort carriers.

Anticosti-class minesweeper

After conversion, the Anticosti class was used for minesweeping training in preparation for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project, what would later become the Kingston class of patrol vessels in the late 1990s.

Ashizuri-class combat support ship

The Ashizuri was planned to support for two large-sized carriers (Akagi, Kaga and Shōkaku class) in the battlefield.

ASV Wyatt Earp

Based on the Royal Australian Navy's Fantome class survey launches, Wyatt Earp was built specifically for hydrographic survey duties in Antarctic waters.

Wyatt Earp is a smaller version of the Fantome class survey launches used by the Royal Australian Navy, modified for operations in Antarctic waters.

Burak-class corvette

Burak-class corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), aka B-class corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions.

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

The Royal Australian Navy had three Charles F. Adams class units constructed to their own specifications (these ships were designated the Perth class).

Cheng Kung-class frigate

The Cheng Kung class was initially fitted with 8 x Hsiung Feng II ship-to-ship missiles, instead of the Harpoon missiles that the Oliver Hazard Perry class use.

Design 1047 battlecruiser

The plan for three battlecruisers was authorized in February 1940; they, along with two light cruisers of the Eendracht class

Emergency Shipbuilding program

All the ships to be built were collectively called the Ocean class and to be of an existing British design for 5-hatch cargo ships of about 10,000 tons' load displacement and 11 knots' service speed using obsolete, but readily available, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine and coal-fired Scotch-type fire tube boilers.

Feilding and District Steam Rail Society

The society has restored or is presently restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction currently being a tank locomotive, WAB 794.

French ship Annibal

Annibal (1779-1794), a 74 gun ship of the line, lead ship of Annibal class

German torpedo boat T-36

Built by Schichau of Elbing, T-36 was the last of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats, sometimes referred to as the Elbing class.

H-class submarine

Danish H class submarine also known as Havmanden class - 407 tonne submarines of the 1930s serving in the Danish Navy

Halifax Shipyard

In 1992, Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was the successful bidder for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project which would build what is today known as the Kingston class or the MCDV.

Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon

On 14 August the same year, he took over command of the Hermes class sixth-rate sloop HMS Valorous and sailed her to the West Indies.

Lerici-class minehunter

The class design has also been used as the basis for ships of the Royal Malaysian Navy (as the Mahamiru class), the Nigerian Navy, the United States Navy (as the Osprey class), the Royal Australian Navy (as the Huon class), and the Royal Thai Navy (as the Lat Ya class).

The six Ganggyeong (Swallow) class ships of the Republic of Korea Navy are an unlicensed derivative of the Lerici class.

Levens

The Duke of Savoy Charles Emmanuel then revoked Annibal's command and ordered him and his son André to follow the Duke to the Turin court.

Open Marxism

In the 1970s and 1980s, 'state-derivationist' debates around the separation of 'the economic' and 'the political' under capitalism unfolded in the San Francisco-based working group Kapitalistate and the Conference of Socialist Economists journal Capital & Class, involving many of the theorists of Open Marxism and significantly influencing its theoretical development.

Paul Foerster

In the Flying Dutchman (FD) class he was successful with Stephen Bourdow (Silver 1992), and then in the 470 Class with Bob Merrick (silver, 2000) and Kevin Burnham (gold, 2004).

Robotech Armed Forces

The Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comic series and the movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles introduced the Shimakaze class (a battlecruiser slightly larger than the Tristar class), the Crusade-class dropship, and the Ark Angel-class colony ships.

Russian 12 inch 40 caliber naval gun

They were installed on seventeen battleships starting with Sissoi Veliky and Tri Sviatitelia and ending with the Andrei Pervozvanny class.

Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov

In December 1996, the People's Republic of China bought two Sovremenny class destroyers, and the income from this sale made it possible to pay for the $169 million repairs to the Ustinov.

The Manitowoc Company

The Marinette shipyard, Marinette Marine, built the first Freedom class littoral combat ship for the United States Navy, and the United States Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw.

Torpedo gunboat

A number of torpedo gunboats, such as the Alarm class and the Dryad class, were built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s and the 1890s; similar vessels were also constructed or otherwise acquired by a number of European nations and Japan.

Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel

The eight to ten vessels of this class, specially designed to operate in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, will replace the João Coutinho and Baptista de Andrade class corvettes — currently being decommissioned —, and the small patrol boats of the Cacine class in their primary fisheries protection role (SIFICAP) and in their search and rescue (SAR) roles.

Yakovlev Yak-44

The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, resembling the United States Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, and intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers.


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