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unusual facts about Cannon-class destroyer escort


Cannon-class destroyer escort

Of the 116 ships ordered 44 were canceled and six commissioned directly into the Free French Forces.


3D Bomb Alley

The player controls an anti-aircraft cannon, located at his or her point-of-view, with a crosshair on the screen.

Albatros L 77v

Three of the aircraft saw service performing armament trials in Lipetsk in the Soviet Union; these included one aircraft testing a free-mounted 20 mm cannon.

Arsenal-Delanne 10

This arrangement gave the gunner a clear field of fire for his planned armament of two 7.5 mm machine guns, which was to be supplemented by a 20 mm cannon firing through the propellor hub and two more machine guns in the wing.

AS-90

Haubicoarmata "Krab" - (eng. Howitzer-cannon Crab) Licensed "Braveheart" turret on a Polish chassis UPG, with modern "Azalia" BMS.

Berezin B-20

In 1946, an electrically-fired version was created for the turrets of the Tupolev Tu-4 bomber until the Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannon became available.

Bernard-René de Launay

The thirteen years that he spent in this position were uneventful, though on 19 December 1778 he reportedly made the faux pas of failing to fire the cannon of the Bastille as a salute on the birth of a daughter (Madame Royale) to King Louis XVI.

Bombardment of Qui Nhơn

United States naval forces under James F. Schenck went to Cochinchina to search for missing American citizens but were met with cannon fire upon arriving.

Bridge Street, Sydney

It includes the obelisk designed by Francis Greenway and constructed in 1818; the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort erected in 1883; the cannon and anchor from HMS Sirius, the anchor having been placed on its pedestal in 1907; and the men's lavatory built in 1908, which features stucco and a glazed dome.

Carolyn Chute

She was the leader of a group which was known as the Second Maine Militia and is a fierce defender of the Second Amendment, keeping an AK-47 and a small cannon at her home in Maine.

Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr

A memorial to Catrin stands in Cannon Street Garden, where the church formerly stood; the statue was designed by Nic Stradlyn-John and sculpted by Richard Renshaw, and was unveiled in 2001 by Siân Phillips.

Charles W. King

Cannon were fired from the hilltops of the Miura Peninsula as soon as the ship approached Uraga, in compliance with the 1825–42 Shogunal order that any approaching Western ships, apart from Dutch ones, should be fired upon.

Charlie Cannon

Cannon served 3½ years in the U.S. Army during Second World War, and was stationed in the South Pacific.

Cheng Xuechi

Recovered cities Taicang, Kunshan, Wujiang seriesly, promoted Captain General in May 1863, and Cheng created the first Chinese modern Cannon troop.

Clarence Cannon

In 1962 Cannon engaged in an unseemly and well-publicized dispute with Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, another octogenarian Democrat, over obscure matters of parliamentary precedent.

Device Forts

In 1547–8, an inventory was made of crown possessions and this details the cannon and hand-arms of each fort.

Drums in the Deep South

To delay General Sherman's March to the Sea, a local guide can lead a party of men and their disassembled cannon inside caves that lead to the top of Devil's Mountain where a battery of guns can destroy the railroad and the Union troop and supply trains that travel it, buying time for the Confederacy.

Durjoy-class corvette

The LPC are armed with a single 76.2mm NG-16-1 automatic cannon, two twin 25mm cannon mounted amidships, four C-704 surface to surface missiles (SSM) mounted aft, and two forward-mounted six-barreled RDC depth charge rocket launchers.

Edsall

Edsall-class destroyer escort, a class of US Navy ships built for World War II

Emine Ülker Tarhan

She is an outspoken supporter of the 2013 protests and on one occasion sat on the ground to prevent a water cannon vehicle passing, for which act the pianist Fazıl Say suggested she should take over the leadership of the CHP.

Eola, Texas

After the turn of the new century, James Mark Cannon (born circa 1967) relocated from Portland, Oregon, to purchase the abandoned school building and to turn it into a seven-day restaurant known as "Eola School Restaurant".

Ernest Rides Again

After discovering an antique metal plate near a construction site, Ernest shows it to the professor who believes that it came from a giant Revolutionary War cannon called "Goliath", (named after the legendary biblical giant).

Grand Excursion

St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly said the city would make up for that in 2004 by promising, "Church bells will ring, cannons will fire, bands will play, flags will wave and the bridges will be decked with bunting and signs."

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

The cannon was also used on cargo aircraft; specifically, Russian/Soviet Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft were designed to accommodate twin Gsh-23L's in a tail turret.

Harmonica Frank

He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus play two harmonicas at once, a skill he shared with blues harp players Walter Horton and Gus Cannon's partner Noah Lewis.

Henschel Hs 129

Though equipped with generally unsuitable designs such as the Henschel Hs 123 and cannon-armed versions of the Heinkel He 112, their armament and pilots proved that the aircraft was a very effective weapon even without bombs.

Howard Cannon

Cannon was re-elected with far less difficulty in 1970 (58%), defeating then Washoe County District Attorney William Raggio.

Hughie Cannon

Thornton Hagert (founder of Vernacular Music Research), in 1971, noted Cannon's use of a 12-bar structure.

Inchcolm

An inventory of 8 January 1548 lists the English armaments on the island as; one culverin; one demi-culverin; 3 iron sakers; a brass saker; 2 iron falcons; 3 brass falcons; 4 fowlers; 2 port pieces; 14 bases; 90 arquebuses, 2 chests of bows; 50 pikes; and 40 bills.

Leif Erickson

He guest-starred in several TV series' including Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center, Cannon and The Rockford Files.

Lockheed XF-104

An investigation later showed that one of the 20 mm cannon rounds had exploded in the breech, blowing the bolt out the rear of the gun and through the structure into the forward fuselage fuel cell.

M39 cannon

The M39 was developed by the Springfield Armory, based on the World War II–era design of the German Mauser MG 213, a 20 mm (and 30 mm) cannon developed for the Luftwaffe, which did not see combat use.

Man vs. Cartoon

In the first episode, for example, the students re-create a Rube Goldberg machine featured in Wild About Hurry that begins with a slingshot and involves a large number of steps, culminating in a cannon shot.

MG 151 cannon

It was the prototype for the 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon widely used on German Luftwaffe fighters, night fighters, fighter-bombers, bombers and ground-attack aircraft.

Paul Dietzel

LSU concluded the season with a 21–0 loss to Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl, two months after the top-ranked Tigers beat the third-ranked Rebels 7–3 in Tiger Stadium on Billy Cannon's 89-yard punt return, a play that helped win Cannon the Heisman Trophy.

Reffye 75 mm cannon

The Reffye 75mm cannon (French: Canon de campagne de 5 de Reffye modèle 1873) was a French artillery piece of the 19th century, developed by the French artillery General Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye, superintendent of the works at Meudon.

Reffye 85 mm cannon

The Reffye 85 mm cannon (French: "Canon de campagne de 7 de Reffye modèle 1870") was a French artillery piece of the 19th century, developed by the French artillery General Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye, superintendent of the works at Meudon.

Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico

Such weaponry included 400 Enfield rifles, 45 snider rifles, 110 carbines, 87 handguns and one cannon with 200 shells, culminated from hidden caches on Saint Thomas, Curaçao and Haiti.

Robert Deman

He also acted in popular television series of the '70's, such as Cannon, starring William Conrad, The Blue Knight, starring George Kennedy and To Rome with Love, starring John Forsythe.

Saga Domain

By 1866, the incorporation of British Armstrong Whitworth cannon made the ships at Nagasaki into the first Japanese Western-style ("modern") navy.

Samuel T. Busey

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress, losing to Cannon (who regained his seat).

Snow machine

Snowmaking machines, also known as a "snow cannon" or "snow gun"

SS Georgette

Georgette then fired a warning shot with its 12 pounder (5 kg) cannon, but Anthony pointed at his ship's US flag and sailed away.

Star fort

The French army was equipped with new cannon and bombards that were easily able to destroy traditional fortifications built in the Middle Ages.

The Little Stranger

Peter Cannon in Publishers Weekly writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

Thomas W. Ward

In 1841 he lost his right arm when a cannon misfired during the official celebration of San Jacinto Day.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The UNCLOS replaces the older and weaker 'freedom of the seas' concept, dating from the 17th century: national rights were limited to a specified belt of water extending from a nation's coastlines, usually three nautical miles, according to the 'cannon shot' rule developed by the Dutch jurist Cornelius van Bynkershoek.

Vincenzo Viviani

Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Like the early Yak-1, it had a 20 mm ShVAK cannon firing through the nose spinner and twin 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns on the fuselage(firing through the propeller), but was also fitted with a ShVAK cannon in each wing.

Yubari-class destroyer escort

As the tactical data processing system, they has the OYQ-5 being capable of receiving data automatically from other ships via Link-14 (STANAG 5514; the data link with the Radioteletype).

Zem Zem

Zamzama, a cannon outside Lahore Museum, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim


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