Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Attack-class patrol boat 14 October West Germany: Blohm + Voss: Hamburg: Polar Colombia: Polar-Ecuador-class reefer ship For Hamburg Süd [25] 19 October United Kingdom: Upper Clyde Shipbuilders: Clydebank: Antrim: County-class destroyer 30 October United Kingdom: Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore: Perso: Tanker: For Shell-Mex & B.P. Ltd ...
The Sa'ar 2 class ("Shalechet") is a class of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie shipyard based on Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's Jaguar-class fast attack craft. Three of the ships class were converted from Sa'ar 1-class patrol boats in 1974.
After World War II, Gilera dominated Grand Prix motorcycle racing, winning the 500 cc road racing world championship six times in eight years. [6] Facing a downturn in motorcycle sales due to the increase in the popularity of automobiles after the war, Gilera made a gentleman's agreement with the other Italian motorcycle makers to quit Grand Prix racing after the 1957 season as a cost-cutting ...
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1967 Ship State Description Bjorn Lohse West Germany: The ship caught fire at Lisbon and was declared a constructive total loss. The ship was scrapped in March 1967. [2] Filia Greece: The Liberty ship collided with Tayga (flag unknown) of Mocha, Yemen and was beached. She was declared a constructive total loss. [3]
[4] [5] The boat had a complement of five crewmen and could carry up to eight soldiers. The boat was powered by two 430 hp General Motors 12V71 diesel engines giving a top speed of 14.8 knots and it expelled its exhaust directly into the water reducing noise and smoke emissions, making it the quietest river patrol craft. The boat carried some ...
Egyptian Navy - 7 boats (1962–67), retired in the early 1990s; The Egyptian Navy built 6 derivative boats equipped with western weapons and electronics in the early 1980s as the October class Indonesian Navy - 12 boats (1961–65) Iraqi Navy - 3 boats (1972) Myanmar Navy - 6 boats donated between 1969 and 1974, all retired between 1998 and 2002.
The list of modern world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the 'superboat' era – the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over 45 feet (14 m) in length, and soon three- and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable 35-to-40 ...
1967: Car / passenger ferry Netherlands [240] MV Lion: 1967: Ferry United Kingdom [241] HMS Renown: 1967: Nuclear submarine Royal Navy [242] MV Ulster Queen: 1967: Ferry United Kingdom [243] HMS Revenge: 1968: Nuclear submarine Royal Navy [242] HMS Conqueror: 1969: Nuclear submarine Royal Navy [244] MV Gazana: 1971: LPG carrier United Kingdom ...