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A naval drifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of naval drifters is paralleled by the use of naval trawlers . Fishing trawlers were designed to tow heavy trawls, so they were easily adapted to tow minesweepers, with the crew and layout already suited to the task.
1 × QF 6-pounder (57 mm) gun The CD-class naval drifters were armed naval drifters constructed in 1917 for the Royal Navy in Canada. 100 were ordered for use in British waters during World War I numbered from CD 1 to CD 100 , of which 42 were transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and 18 were transferred to the United States Navy .
1 670 167 700 11 35 4 in gun, 3 × 20 mm Round Table: 8 [13] - 440 137 600 12 35 12-pdr gun, 1 × 20 mm, 2 × MG Military: 9 [14] - 750 193 1000 11 40 4 in gun, 4 × 20 mm Requisitioned: 215 [15] 72 These were ships taken over by the Admiralty
The Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth. A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herring in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in the Netherlands and in many British fishing ports, particularly in East Scottish ports.
On 1 November, the ex-Austro-Hungarian dreadnought flagship Viribus Unitis was sunk – along with the merchant-ship Wien— both at anchor at Pula by limpet mine attached by the crew of an Italian mignatta. The mignatta was the precursor of the human torpedo and was invented by Major of naval engineers Raffaele Rossetti.
Although they were initially given numbers in the same series as the smaller torpedo-boats, they were separated in 1911, with the large torpedo boats numbered from SMS V1, and the older vessels re-numbered with a 'T-'prefix. During the next 20 years a total of 336 such vessels were ordered for the German navy; these vessels are listed in this ...
The Castle-class minesweeper was a highly seaworthy naval trawler adapted for patrol, anti-submarine warfare and minesweeping duties and built to Admiralty specifications. . Altogether 197 were built in the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1919, with others built in Canada, India and later New Zea
It was released on November 1, 2000, [9] and included in Half-Life 's version 1.1.1.0 update, released on June 12, 2002. [10] Ports of the game to OS X and Linux were released through Steam on August 1, 2013. [11] Science and Industry – A team-based multiplayer mod in which players take the roles of security guards at two competing research ...