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World of Warships is a naval warfare-themed free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by the Belarusian game company Wargaming. [1] Players control warships of choice and can battle other random players on the server , play cooperative battles against bots , or participate in an advanced player versus environment (PvE) battle ...
Scuttled a second time 3 May 1945, scrapped 1952. [6] Four Norwegian Sleipner -class destroyers, HNoMS Gyller (1938), HNoMS Odin (1939), HNoMS Tor (1939), & HNoMS Balder (1939) were captured in 1940. All four ships saw service in the Kriegsmarine. Four French Flower-class corvettes, Arquebuse, Hallebarde, Sabre, & Poignard were captured in 1940 ...
Janes Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of each country's navy, coast guard, associated vessels, weapons, and aircraft. Included are ship names, construction data, size, speed, range, complement, engineering, armament, and sensors. This is generally followed by relevant commentary. Often referred to as the "Bible" of the world's navies ...
Design: 15 rpm. Muzzle velocity. 2,600 ft/s (790 m/s) initial. Sights. Optical telescope. The Mark 12 5"/38-caliber gun was a United States dual-purpose naval gun, but also installed in single-purpose mounts on a handful of ships. The 38- caliber barrel was a mid-length compromise between the previous United States standard 5"/51 low-angle gun ...
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
The game of Battleship is thought to have its origins in the French game L'Attaque played during World War I, although parallels have also been drawn to E. I. Horsman's 1890 game Basilinda, [1] and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. [3] The first commercial version of the game was Salvo, published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company.
The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of nine light cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1935 and 1938. Armed with five triple 6-inch (152 mm) gun turrets (three forward, two aft), they mounted more main battery guns than any other standard US cruiser. The Brooklyn -class ships were all commissioned between 1937 and 1939, in the ...
Motor torpedo boats [139] Vosper 73 ft motor torpedo boat [140] Fairmile D motor torpedo boat [141] Motor gun boats [142] Fairmile C motor gun boat [143] Steam Gun Boat [144] High-speed launch [145] High-speed launches type boats or HSL were operated only by the Royal Air Force Marine Branch to rescue downed RAF aircrew at sea.