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unusual facts about Courageous-class battlecruiser


Courageous-class battlecruiser

During her sea trials in November 1916 off the River Tyne, Courageous sustained structural damage while running at full speed in a rough head sea.


Admiral class

Admiral-class battlecruiser, of which four were planned for the Royal Navy near the end of World War I but only one completed

Advent Film Group

Written and directed by Michael Collender, this political drama focuses on the bipartisan forces in Congress and elsewhere that opposed the courageous Congressional struggle against the passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

Agano-class cruiser

As completed, the main armament was the same type of 152 mm (6 inch) gun as used on the Kongō-class battlecruisers, some of these weapons having been removed from the Fusō and Kongō classes during their modernizations in the early and late 1930s, respectively.

Alan Burgess

He wrote The Small Woman (1957), the story of Gladys Aylward, The Longest Tunnel: the true story of World War II's great escape, Seven Men at Daybreak (1960) about Operation Anthropoid, The Lovely Sergeant (1963) about Flora Sandes, Daylight Must Come: The story of a courageous woman doctor in the Congo, a travelogue entitled No Risk - No Romance, and a novel, The Word for Love (1970).

Amagi-class battlecruiser

Amagi and Akagi were both intended for conversion, but an earthquake damaged the hull of Amagi so extensively that the ship was scrapped.

--changed this from Kaga-class--> battleship, but with a thinner armored belt and deck and a modified secondary battery arrangement.

The class design was 820 ft 3 in (250 m) long at the waterline, and 826 ft 1 in (251.8 m) overall.

Battle of Kamdesh

Staff Sergeant Ty Carter, formerly a Marine prior to joining the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions during the Battle of Kamdesh.

Borodino-class battlecruiser

There were suggestions to improve the machinery with geared turbines, turbo-electric drive, or Föttinger's hydraulic transmission, but these were more theoretical than practical.

Clan MacBean

Forbes Macbean, another of the well known military family descended from Reverend Alexander MacBean of Inverness (mentioned above), won a DSO (Distinguished Service Cross) in 1897 when serving as a Major in the Gordon Highlanders, for the gallant and courageous action in taking the heights of Dargai near the border of Afghanistan, in India's old north west province, which is now part of Pakistan.

Claud A. Jones Award

The award is named in memory of Medal of Honor recipient Admiral Claud Ashton Jones for "extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession" as a result of his courageous actions in 1916 while serving as engineer on USS Memphis (CA-10) when she was wrecked in the harbor of Santo Domingo by an unexpected tidal wave.

Daphne Pochin Mould

In 1993 she received an honorary doctorate from University College Cork when she was described as "a scientist and a free spirit, a courageous pioneer and an outstanding woman warrior".

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters (Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla), with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page.

E. J. H. Nash

Bishop David Sheppard remarked that Nash could be "single-minded to the point of ruthlessness" and "courageous in challenging people about their actions or priorities," but that this could become "over-direction"; some even needed to make a complete break in order to be free of his influence.

First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

President George H. W. Bush named the Church the 177th Point of Light for its courageous outreach in community services.

Fly Me Courageous

Fly Me Courageous is the fourth studio album by the Hard Rock/Southern Rock band Drivin' N' Cryin', released on January 8, 1991 by Island Records.

Glen Bowyer

He won a Rising Star nomination, averaged 16 disposals a game over the course of the season as well as taking 120 marks, and was heralded as the club's most courageous player.

Guînes

When the French captured the town of Calais in January 1558, Guisnes held out, by the courageous efforts of the English commander, William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton.

Gunbird

Yuan Nang (ヤンニャン): A strong-willed and courageous woman whose character design is highly influenced by that of Sun Wukong from the Chinese classical story Journey to the West, including a cloud-somersault parody, Ruyi Jingu Bang, and the size-changing headband that was used by the monk Xuánzàng.

Gutsy Gals Inspire Me

Gutsy Gals Inspire Me® is a multimedia company created by Deborah Hutchison that honors courageous women of the past and present through films, awards, and other forms of recognition including an upcoming book series.

Jan Holden

In 1999, one of her twin daughters died from a brain tumour, but she remained cheerful and courageous until her own death in 2005.

John David Crow

This award is voted by the players and given to the 49er who best exemplifies the "inspirational and courageous play" of Len Eshmont.

John F. Burns

Burns was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing "his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina".

Joseph S. Fowler

During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Fowler broke party ranks, along with six other Republican senators, and in a courageous act of political suicide, voted for acquittal.

Kamel Sajid

Sajid was described by Ra'ad al-Hamdani during the Iraqi Perspectives Project as a courageous and honest person, but not a particularly competent commander, who often shrugged responsibility.

Kirov class

Kirov-class battlecruiser, Project 1144 Orlan missile-armed cruisers built for the Soviet Navy in 1980 and serving now in the Russian Navy;

Kongō-class battlecruiser

After serving as a transport and support-ship during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kirishima escorted the aircraft carrier strikeforce bound for the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Kronshtadt-class battlecruiser

Battleship 'B' was redesignated as Project 25 and given the task of destroying Treaty cruisers and German pocket battleships.

Little Manila, Stockton, California

These courageous Filipino farm workers and labor leaders are the unsung heroes behind the success of the UFW and its iconic leader Cesar Chavez.

Mackensen-class battlecruiser

At the launching ceremony, dockyard workers named the ship Noske, after Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske.

Martin Welz

Special mention, 2002 Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity & Courageous Journalism.

Mehman Aliyev

In 2012 Aliyev received the Human Rights House Network Award, for his "tireless and courageous and long-standing work for the freedom of expression in Azerbaijan".

Mel McInnes

He no-balled Doug Wright three balls in succession for overstepping, and this courageous act may have led to his first Test appointment the following year.

Moltke-class battlecruiser

However, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, along with the Construction Department, argued that increasing the number of guns from 8 to 10 would be preferable, as the 28 cm guns had been deemed sufficient to engage even battleships.

The Turkish government attempted to preserve the ship as a museum, including an offer to West Germany to sell the ship back in 1963, but none of the efforts were successful.

Navy Distinguished Public Service Award

The late former Rep. John Murtha (R-Pa) received the award in 2009 for his “courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy.

O-class battlecruiser

In war, these forces would collaborate with the three battlecruisers by occupying convoy screens while U-boats and one or more of the O class took out the cargo-carrying merchant ships.

O'Lawlor

As punishment for their courageous battles to protect their religious faith and national independence, the Lawlor chieftains who survived the infamous Massacre of Mullaghmast in 1577 were, with the O'More, dispossessed of their property and forced to settle in County Kerry where some descendants remain.

Operation Marne Courageous

Operation Marne Courageous was conducted by the United States 101st Airborne Division and Iraqi Security Forces between 16 - 19 November 2007 in Anbar province, Iraq.

Paddy Chew

Prof. Roy Chan, who knew Chew since he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1995 and who worked closely with him on several AIDS awareness projects, said: "Paddy was a very outspoken person. He had a lot of guts to do what he did. He was selfless and courageous. He did not do it for himself, but for society."

Petro Poroshenko

Swedish economist and one-time Ukraine national government advisor Anders Åslund has described Poroshenko as an "uncommonly courageous" man willing to challenge the Yanukovych family's near-stranglehold on Ukrainian economic power and support the pro-EU protest movement.

Pingat Keberanian Polis

No further medals were awarded until the year 2003 when six medals were awarded to a crew of Police Coast Guard officers led by DSP1 Tan Wee Wah Stephen who responded and conducted rescue efforts after a collision of the Republic of Singapore Navy's RSS Courageous and a merchant ship, ANL Indonesia which occurred on 3 January 2003.

Rene Mederos

He travelled to both North and South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh trail with the liberation forces, experiencing first-hand the brutal conditions of war and the courageous response of the Vietnamese people.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

He worked on a book-length project entitled Prisoners of Conscience: Public Intellectuals in a Time of Crisis, which examines the courageous stance of four public figures—Anna Akhmatova, Albert Camus, Langston Hughes, and George Orwell—during the tumultuous period of 1914-45.

Santiago Carrillo

His own courageous personal behaviour during the failed coup d'état was remarkable − he was, together with outgoing prime minister Suárez and defence minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, one of the three MPs not to obey the rebels' orders to lie down, choosing to sit and have a cigarette (as shown in the surviving TV footage of that day).

Solstice Wood

Like her relative the courageous Rois Melior, the hero of Winter Rose, it is only Sylva, who is part fairy herself, who is able to cross the border into the other realm to rescue him and return peace to their ancestral home

Superfantozzi

So Ugo to be more courageous and discovers the sword Excalibur to participate in a duel between knights.

Tariq Alhomayed

The Washington Post editor Jim Hoagland characterised Almohayed in 2009 as "a courageous columnist".

Xanana Gusmão

In 2000, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for being "Courageous and principled leader for the independence of the East Timorese people".


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