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The K-class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913. Intended as large, fast vessels with the endurance and speed to operate with the battle fleet, they gained notoriety and the nickname of "Kalamity class" for being involved in many accidents. Of the 18 built, none were lost through enemy action ...
The LB&SCR K class were powerful 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotives designed by L. B. Billinton for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) in 1913. They appeared shortly before the First World War and the first ten examples of the class did prodigious work during that conflict on munitions, supply and troop trains.
The Barracuda-class submarines (originally the K-1-class submarines) were the product of Project Kayo, a research and development effort begun immediately after World War II by the United States Navy to "solve the problem of using submarines to attack and destroy enemy submarines." They originally had the hull classification symbol SSK, for ...
2 × 16 in (406 mm) tubes aft. K-19 (Russian: К-19) was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit: Projekt-658) class (NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM. The boat was hastily built by the ...
K13. Four 1,440 hp (1.1 MW) electric motors. One 800 hp (600 kW) Vickers diesel generator for charging batteries on the surface. HMS K13 was a steam-propelled First World War K class submarine of the Royal Navy. She sank in a fatal accident during sea trials in early 1917 and was salvaged and recommissioned as HMS K22.
The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau [1] [2] [3] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy. The first version had the Soviet designation Project 877 Paltus ( ‹See Tfd› Russian : Па́лтус , meaning " halibut "), NATO reporting name ...
Childcare. Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom -based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts). [1][2] It may be delivered through a preschool or within a reception year in elementary school. Pre-kindergartens play an important ...
Following the success of his I3 4-4-2 tank locomotive class, Douglas Earle Marsh decided to enlarge the class to create a tank locomotive capable of hauling the heaviest London - Brighton express trains. The first locomotive No. 325 was classified "J1" and completed by Brighton Works in December 1910. It incorporated a Schmidt superheater and ...