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unusual facts about König-class battleship


König-class battleship

In his effort to force the Reichstag to pass the bill, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz threatened to resign from his post as the State Secretary for the Navy.


130 mm/55 B7 Pattern 1913

The first charge of guns was used to equipped the cruiser Svetlana and the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships of the Black Sea Fleet.

6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877

The 6 inch 35 caliber gun formed the standard secondary battery of Imperial Russian Navy pre-dreadnought battleships from mid-1880s to mid-1890s and was used on Ekaterina II and Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships along with Gangut, Dvenadsat Apostolov and Navarin battleships.

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.

Aronszajn tree

The existence of Aronszajn trees (=\aleph 1-Aronszajn trees) was proven by Nachman Aronszajn, and implies that the analogue of König's lemma does not hold for uncountable trees.

Arsenal ship

Some concept artwork of the Arsenal Ship was produced, some images bearing the number "72," possibly hinting at an intent to classify the arsenal ships as a battleship, since the last battleship ordered (but never built) was USS Louisiana (BB-71).

Battle of Bautzen

Finally, generals Wittgenstein and Blücher were ordered to stop at Bautzen by Tsar Alexander I and König Frederick William III.

Bayern-class battleship

Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz used public outcry over the British involvement in the Agadir Crisis of 1911 to pressure the Reichstag into appropriating additional funds for the Navy.

BL 9.2 inch Mk XI naval gun

Lord Nelson-class battleships laid down 1905 & completed 1908 : 4 twin mounts and 2 single mounts.

Black Death Jewish persecutions

In Germany there had already been massacres stirred up by local demagogues: the Roettingen "Knight Rindfleisch," the Rintfleisch massacres (1298), and the innkeeper-knight Arnold von Uissigheim König Armleder ("King Leatherarm") of the Armleder massacres (1336–38).

Braunschweig-class battleship

Braunschweig was laid down at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel in 1901, was launched on 20 December 1902, and commissioned into the fleet on 15 October 1904.

Brock Norman Brock

He lives in the East End of London with his partner Cara Konig-Brock and their two children.

Brown powder

Some Royal Navy ships like the Royal Sovereign-class battleships were commissioned with the already obsolete SBC-based guns, but the subsequent Majestic and Canopus-class battleships were the first to adopt Cordite Mk I.

Canberra Choral Society

Other performances in 2004 included Duruflé's Requiem and Rutter's Gloria, as well as Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (the Solemn Vespers), K339 and Thamos, König in Ägypten (Thamos, King of Egypt), K345 in its final concert for the year.

Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1910 naval gun

It was carried by the dreadnoughts of the Courbet and Bretagne classes as their secondary armament and planned for use in the Normandie-class battleships.

Charlemagne-class battleship

Saint Louis became the flagship of the squadron almost as soon as she reached Toulon and all three participated in a number of port visits and naval reviews.

Der König verneigt sich und tötet

Der König verneigt sich und tötet (The King Bows and Kills) is an essay book in German by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller.

Erzherzog Karl-class battleship

The Erzherzog Karl-class, like the Habsburg-class before them and the Radetzky-class after them were named after archdukes of the Austro-Hungarian Royal Family, specifically Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.

España-class battleship

Following disastrous losses in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain lacked the money to rebuild its navy, so it was not until the Navy Law of 7 January 1908 that a new program authorizing three new battleships—España, Alfonso XIII, and Jaime I—along with other ships, was passed.

Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship

Marcantonio Colonna was laid down on 3 March 1915 at the Odero Shipyard in Sestri Ponente.

Franz König

Until his death, Cardinal König was active in the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Gott ist mein König, BWV 71

(One or two cantatas, for example Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, may have been written at Arnstadt, his previous residence, for performance at Mühlhausen.) Gott ist mein König, along with another cantata (now lost) composed the following year, was written for the annual service that took place on February 4, the day after the city held elections to install a new city council.

Herman Charles Koenig

Koenig was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the last child in the family of Herman Koenig (listed as “Henry König” in the 1870 U. S. Federal Census) and Anna Poggenburg, German immigrants.

Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship

The Germans captured four of these 12-inch and some 130 mm guns in transit in Narvik harbor when they invaded Norway in April 1940.

Ingrid Caven

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King (Ludwig – Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König) (1972) - Lola Montez

Ise-class battleship

Hyūga, for example, mounted a complement of 14 Yokosuka D4Y dive-bombers and 8 Aichi E16A seaplanes.

Johann Gerhard König

In 1778, König was transferred to a post with the British East India Company where he remained until his death, undertaking several scientific journeys and working with notable scientists like William Roxburgh, Johan Christian Fabricius and Sir Joseph Banks.

Johann König

Other works of König are in Paris Louvre, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the art gallery in Berlin, the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe in National Museum of Germanic in Nuremberg and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Johann Samuel König

Johann Samuel König (July 31, 1712, Büdingen – August 21, 1757, Zuilenstein near Amerongen) was a mathematician.

Jonas Totoraitis

He went on to Freiburg University in Switzerland, where he published his doctoral dissertation on the life of King Mindaugas, Die Litauer unter dem König Mindowe bis zum Jahre 1263, the first such work by a Lithuanian scholar.

Julio Deutsch

He studied at the Vienna University of Technology under Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König.

Karl Julius Weber

He received his education at Erlangen and Göttingen, and after some time passed in Switzerland, became, in 1792, private secretary to the Count of Erbach-Schönberg, whom he left in 1799 to accept the post of Government councilor at König in Odenwald.

King Edward VII-class battleship

On 6 January 1916 she struck a mine off Cape Wrath; her engine rooms flooded and she capsized nine hours later and sank without loss of life.

König Ottokars Glück und Ende

König Ottokars Glück und Ende is a tragedy in five acts written by Franz Grillparzer in 1823.

Ludwig von Henk

In the Franco-Prussian War, he commanded the armored frigate König Wilhelm and after war's end became commander of the North Sea naval station.

Lyon-class battleship

The first two were named for cities in France, while the rest honored French admirals Abraham Duquesne and Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

Manning Kimmel

On July 3, 1944, Robalo received an Ultra communiqué, and attempted to intercept a Fuso-class battleship.

Mount Kongō

The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.

Navid

Navíd Akhavan, is an Iranian-German actor best known for his role as Hakan in the German comedy television series König von Kreuzberg

Reina Victoria Eugenia-class battleship

The class, as well as the lead ship, were named for King Alfonso XIII's English queen consort.

Robert Radecke

An artist of ability on pianoforte, organ, and violin, Radecke is best known for his compositions, which include two orchestral overtures, König Johann and Am Strande; the operetta Die Mönchguter (1824); and, above all, for his many songs.

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.

Valerio Olgiati

VALERIO OLGIATI, edited by Laurent Stalder, Texts by Mario Carpo, Bruno Reichlin and Laurent Stalder, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2008 (1st Edition) / Quart Verlag, Luzern 2010 (2nd edition); German: ISBN 978-3-03761-031-2, English: ISBN 978-3-03761-030-5, 192 pages

Will Eisenmann

His opera Der König der dunklen Kammer, based on a work by Rabindranath Tagore, won the Emil Hertzka Prize.


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