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3 unusual facts about Turbine-class destroyer


Turbine-class destroyer

Turbine, Aquilone and Nembo took part in the shelling of Sollum on 14 June 1940.

On 3 July 1942, while escorting three freighters from Taranto to Benghazi along with the Navigatori class destroyer Da Verrazzano, Euro and Turbine shot down two Beaufort bombers.

On 19 June 1944, at Porto Lago, she was badly damaged by an explosion, which was thought to have been sabotage.


Acheron-class destroyer

Three River-class destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy were laid down in British yards, with a further three built in Australia.

Alsedo-class destroyer

On 17 February 1915, the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) passed a navy law authorising a large programme of construction for the Spanish Navy, including three destroyers of British design, the Alsedo class, to be built in Spain at the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) dockyard at Cartagena.

Attic

Various types of turbine ventilators and exhaust fans can also be used to assist with attic ventilation and decrease the required area of passive ventilators.

Ayanami-class destroyer

The Ayanami class was a destroyer class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the late 1950s.The primary purpose was anti-submarine warfare, so this class was classified as "DDK" (hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer) unofficially.

Calcium magnesium acetate

Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) systems are used to convert coal into clean, usable fuel gas which is then used to run gas turbine systems for power generation.

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.

Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer

Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy.

Criterion Wind Project

A lawsuit was filed in December 2010 against the Criterion Wind Project alleging that the project must obtain an Incidental Take Permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for any Indiana bats killed or injured by the turbine blades.

Cross-flow turbine

Vertical axis wind turbines also have the flow pass through the turbine transversely

Daring-class destroyer

The Type 45 destroyers, launched from 2006 onwards, are also known as the Daring class.

DB Class 210

However, the Deutsche Bahn decided that the successor to this locomotive should have a more powerful gas turbine and the AVCO Lycoming T 53-L13 was selected which had already been selected for use in the Bundeswehr Helicopter Bell UH-1 D.

Ehrensköld-class destroyer

In the early 1920s, the Royal Swedish Navy operated 10 destroyers and 29 first class torpedo boats.

Erich Warsitz

On August 27, 1939 Erich Warsitz undertook the world first jet flight with the Heinkel He 178 fitted with Hans von Ohain’s jet engine, the He S 3 turbine.

Friesland-class destroyer

The Friesland Class destroyers were built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1950s.

Gnevny-class destroyer

Four surviving ships from the Pacific Fleet were transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy and served as the Anshan class destroyers.

Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyer

It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy.

Halland-class destroyer

They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).

Hunt-class

Hunt-class destroyer, escort destroyers which served in the Second World War

Hunt-class destroyer

They were named after British fox hunts.

Impavido-class destroyer

The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy (MMI) after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.

Impetuoso-class destroyer

The Impetuoso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy.

Island Generating Station

The Power Station consists of one 254 MW gas turbine (supplied by ABB),

Kidd-class destroyer

All four have been transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy under the Kuang Hua VII program.

Laforey-class destroyer

L and M-class destroyer or Laforey class, a class of 16 Royal Navy destroyers launched from 1939 to 1941

Los Luchadores

The series was about a group of lucha libre wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone) who, along with Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter), fought villains such as the Whelp (voiced by Gary Lam), the pet Chihuahua of a mad scientist who eventually becomes an evil genius through a freak accident.

M-class destroyer

L and M-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched 1939–1942 and that served in World War II

Marcilio Dias-class destroyer, three ships of the Brazilian Navy that served in World War II

Momo-class destroyer

In the movie "Run Silent, Run Deep" Run Silent, Run Deep the US submarine Nerka attacks and sinks a Japanese destroyer called  Momo.

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.

Napier Oryx

The engine was developed by the Aero Gas Turbine Division of Napier in conjunction with Percival, later Hunting Percival.

Omega-class destroyer

This design bore similarities to Syd Mead's design of the Leonov, a fictional Russian space ship that appeared in the 1984 movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Oriani-class destroyer

She was given to the French Navy as a war reparation, where she served as the D'Estaing until 1954

PacWind

During the "I Spy Bill Nye" episode of Living With Ed, Ed Begley, Jr. has a 'SeaHawk' (500w) model turbine installed on the roof of his house.

Q and R-class destroyer

Three Q class ships were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy upon completion, with two further ships being handed over in 1945.

Robert Waring Stoddard

The Stoddards owned Wyman-Gordon, a major company that manufactured forgings for the automotive, aerospace and gas turbine industries.

Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Rolls-Royce has seven risk and revenue sharing partners on the Trent 900: Industria de Turbo Propulsores (low pressure turbine), Hamilton Sundstrand (electronic engine controls), Avio S.p.A. (gearbox module), Marubeni Corporation (engine components), Volvo Aero (intermediate compressor case), Goodrich Corporation (fan casings and sensors) and Honeywell (pneumatic systems).

Rye House power station

Rye House has three single-shaft Siemens V94.2 gas turbines (generating 150MW each) rotating at 3000rpm and three Babcock Energy steam generators (receiving exhaust gas at 540C) connected to one 250MW steam turbine.

S and T-class destroyer

The Hazemeyer design had been brought to Britain by the Dutch minelayer Willem van der Zaan that escaped German occupation in May 1940.

Sazanami

Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1898), a Ikazuchi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Russo-Japanese War

Shirane-class destroyer

The Shirane class are also the first Japanese ships to be fitted with 3D radars, the NEC OPS-12.

On 27 October 2009, the JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan.

Shiratsuyu-class destroyer

Initially the shields were made from Duralumin to save weight, but these quickly corroded and had to be replaced.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

A third version, Project 956EM, later developed for the People's Liberation Army Navy was the latest development of this class.Chinese media called the ship "carrier killer".

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

Swan Hunter

Also in 1903 the Company took a controlling interest in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which was an early licensed manufacturer of Parsons turbine engines, which enabled the Mauretania to achieve its great speed.

U class

U and V-class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943

W-class destroyer

V and W-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers built late in World War I

Weapon-class destroyer

This problem proved fatal for Battleaxe, when she was unable to manoeuvre quickly enough to prevent herself being rammed by the frigate HMS Ursa in the Clyde in 1962.


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