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In the late 1970s, the class received new armament, most notably Penguin, RIM-7 Sea Sparrow and Mark 32 torpedo launchers. Another modernization was carried out in the 1980s. During 1995 and 1996, after HNoMS Oslo experienced an engine failure, and subsequently sank after sailing in heavy weather, the rest of the class was once again modernized ...
Their ships served the Oslo – Kristiansand – Stavanger – Bergen – New York route. [ 1 ] On 27 April 1939, Oslofjord collided with the American 160-foot (48.8 m) pilot boat Sandy Hook in the North Atlantic Ocean west of Sandy Hook , New Jersey , off the Ambrose Lightship at 40°27.556′N 073°49.490′W / 40.459267°N 73.824833 ...
The submarine film is a subgenre of war film in which most of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against enemy submarines or submarine-hunter ships, or against other problems ranging from disputes amongst the crew, threats ...
MS Oslofjord was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1949 by Netherlands Dock and Shipbuilding Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands for Norwegian America Line.As built she was 16,844 gross register tons, and could carry 620 passengers.
Cozzi also stated that although people assume Starcrash was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars, the design of the picture and its script were developed prior to the release of Star Wars. [6] The film's producer and screenwriter, Nat Wachsberger, and his son, producer Patrick Wachsberger, who had just developed the American ...
The Oslo trilogy (Norwegian: Oslo-trilogien) consists of the Norwegian drama films Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and The Worst Person in the World (2021). The three standalone films are all set in Oslo and feature the actor Anders Danielsen Lie in a leading role.
The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Laconia during World War II by a German U-boat, which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
The rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman occurred between 29 August and 1 September 1973 after their Vickers Oceanics small submersible Pisces III was trapped on the seabed at a depth of 1,575 feet (480 m), 150 miles (240 km) off Ireland in the Celtic Sea.