langs: 12 декабря [ru] / december 12 [en] / 12. dezember [de] / 12 décembre [fr] / 12 dicembre [it] / 12 de diciembre [es]
days: december 9 / december 10 / december 11 / december 12 / december 13 / december 14 / december 15
Lighthouse / Lighthouse
#1 Western Channel Pile Light
Western Channel Pile Light , also known as the West Wedding Cake due to its shape, is an active pile lighthouse located at the Sydney Harbour , New South Wales , Australia , off Georges Head at Mosman . It marks the western end of the Sow and Pigs Reef . It collapsed in December 2006 and was reconst
- ... ns in the harbour. [4] The lighthouse was due for replacement in 2007, and a budget was set, but on 12 december 2006 it collapsed, [4] as one or two of the supporting piles broke. [3] The Sydney Ports Corporatio ...
#2 Flannan Isles Lighthouse
Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, one of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland . It is best known for the mysterious disappearance of its keepers in 1900. [3] Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland Lighthouse Flann
- ... has developed of the existence of unusual log book entries. They supposedly have Marshall saying on 12 december that there were "severe winds the likes of which I have never seen before in twenty years". He also ...
#3 Kauhola Point Light
Kauhola Point Lighthouse was located near Kapa'au , on the "Big Island" of Hawaii , near the northern tip of the island. [1] [2] Lighthouse Kauhola Point Light station Coordinates 20°14′43″N 155°46′19″W 1987 lighthouse Constructed 1897 Markings white (tower) Deactivated 1933 1917 lighthouse Co
- ... d First lit 2009 Focal height 116 m (381 ft) Range 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) Characteristic Fl W 15s On december 12, 2009, this structure was demolished due to erosion near its base. SEE ALSO Hawaii portal Engineerin ...
Manufacturer / Manufacturer
#1 Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. (stock symbol CAT ) is an American Fortune 100 corporation that designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets, and sells machinery , engines , financial products , and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. It is the world's largest construction-equipment manuf
- ... eby succeeded Douglas R. Oberhelman as CEO and Dave Calhoun became non-executive chairman. [140] On december 12, 2018, Umpleby was named chairman of the board as well, reversing Caterpillar's previous decision to ...
#2 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. ( 三菱重工業株式会社 , Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-kaisha , informally MHI ) is a Japanese multinational engineering , electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo , Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group and its automobil
- ... I is the majority shareholder of the new company, with Toyota Motor Corporation owning 10%. [35] On december 12, 2012, MHI acquired Pratt & Whitney Power Systems , the small gas turbine business of United Technol ...
#3 Gourlay Brothers
Gourlay Brothers was a marine engineering and shipbuilding company based in Dundee , Scotland. It existed between 1846 and 1908. Gourlay Brothers and Company (Dundee) Ltd. Type Private limited company Industry Marine engineering Shipbuilding Predecessor Gourlay, Mudie & Co. (1846-1853) Gourlay Broth
- ... a 19 170 tons 30 July 1863 [20] The Cohen 774 tons Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 12 december 1863 [21] Tararua 1864 Grampian 20 Panama and New Zealand Mail Boat Company 21 April 1864 [22] Stor ...
- ... mship Company, Dundee 19 June 1883 [104] Loch Tay 115 1310 tons Loch Line Company, Dundee Steamship 12 december 1882 [105] Eden Hall 116 3610 tons Alexander and Radcliffe’s Hall Line, Liverpool Iron Screw Steame ...
Ship / Ship
#1 German World War II destroyers
At the outbreak of the Second World War Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers ( Ger : Zerstörer ) in service, while another one was just being completed. [1] These 22 vessels – comprising 3 classes (Type 34, 34A and 36) – had all been built in the 1930s, making them modern vessels (no destr
- ... : DeSchiMAG Bremen, 6 June 1941 Launched: 2 October 1942 Commissioned: 22 September 1943 Fate: sunk 12 december 1944 mine, Gulf of Finland Z36 Laid down: DeSchiMAG Bremen, 15 September 1941 Launched: 15 May 1943 ...
- ... DeSchiMAG Bremen, 15 September 1941 Launched: 15 May 1943 Commissioned: 19 February 1944 Fate: sunk 12 december 1944 mine, Gulf of Finland Z43 Laid down: DeSchiMAG Bremen, 1 May 1942 Launched: 22 September 1943 ...
#2 HMS Holcombe
HMS Holcombe was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy . She was named after the Holcombe Hunt in Lancashire. She was the first and thus far only ship of the Royal Navy named HMS Holcombe. British destroyer HMS Holcombe History United Kingdom Name HMS Holcombe Ordered 23 August 1940 Buil
- ... missioned 16 September 1942 Identification Pennant number : L56 Fate Torpedoed and sunk by U-593 on 12 december 1943 off the Algerian coast. General characteristics Type Type III Hunt-class destroyer Displacemen ...
- ... nvolved in escorting the invasion fleet for Operation Husky . LOSS Whilst escorting convoy KMS34 on 12 december 1943 her sister ship HMS Tynedale was torpedoed and sunk off Jijel , Algeria, by U-593 commanded by ...
#3 USS Allen M. Sumner
USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) , was the lead ship of her class of destroyers . The ship was named for Allen Melancthon Sumner , a United States Marine Corps captain , who was killed in action during World War I . Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) in April 1959 History Unite
- ... one, long-range—in excess of 9,000 yards (8,200 m) —approach by an enemy aircraft on 6 December. On 12 december , she departed San Pedro Bay and joined the screen of TG 78.3, bound for the landings on Mindoro Isl ...
#4 I-class destroyer
The I-class destroyers were a group of nine destroyers , including a flotilla leader , built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Four similar ships were ordered by the Turkish Navy , of which two were purchased for the Royal Navy, bringing the number of these ships British service to 11—although th
- ... ly 1937 Sunk by German bombers, 26 September 1943 Isis Yarrow & Company , Scotstoun 5 February 1936 12 december 1936 2 June 1937 Mined and sunk off Normandy beaches , 20 July 1944 Ivanhoe [lower-alpha 1] 12 Febr ...
#5 HMS Verulam (1917)
HMS Verulam was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy . She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on 3 October 1917. She struck a mine off the island of Seiskari in the Gulf of Finland on the night between 3–4 September 1919, and sank killing 16 crew. [1] Destroyer of the Royal Na
- ... A Mk.II 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes The sunken destroyer was given to the state of Finland on 12 december 1919 together with her sister ship Vittoria ; however, when salvage efforts began in 1925, it was f ...
#6 Japanese destroyer Murakumo (1928)
Murakumo ( 叢雲 , ”Massed Clouds” ) [1] was the fifth of twenty-four Fubuki -class destroyers , built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I . When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. [2] They served as first-line destroyers through the 19
- ... and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island. From 4 December to 12 december , she covered Japanese landings at Kota Bharu in Malaya . From 16 December, Murakumo was assigned to ...
#7 HMS Kipling (F91)
HMS Kipling (F91) was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Destroyer of the Royal Navy History United Kingdom Name HMS Kipling Builder Yarrow , Scotstoun Laid down 20 October 1937 Launched 19 January 1939 Commissioned 12 December 1939 Identification Pennant number : F91 Fat
- ... Kipling Builder Yarrow , Scotstoun Laid down 20 October 1937 Launched 19 January 1939 Commissioned 12 december 1939 Identification Pennant number : F91 Fate Sunk on 11 May 1942, by Luftwaffe bombers at 32°23′24 ...
- ... otstoun on 20 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939, by Kipling's daughter, and commissioned on 12 december 1939. On 11 October 1940, Kipling , along with another six destroyers, escorted the battleship HMS ...
#8 Russian destroyer Marshal Vasilyevsky
Marshal Vasilevsky was a Udaloy -class destroyer of the Russian Navy . [2] Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy Marshal Vasilevsky in 1986 History Russia Name Marshal Vasilevsky (Маршал Василевский) Namesake Aleksandr Vasilevsky Builder Severnaya Verf , Saint Petersburg Laid down 22 April 1979
- ... 9 December 1981 by Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg . She was commissioned on 8 December 1983. On december 12, 1983, the naval ensign was raised for the first time. January 18, 1984 she was included in the KSF. ...
#9 Hunt-class destroyer
The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy . The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War , particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys . They were named after British fox hunts . The modern Hunt-
- ... the Type I design. Atherstone Builder: Cammell Laird , Birkenhead Laid down: 8 June 1939 Launched: 12 december 1939 Completed: 23 March 1940 Fate: Paid off October 1945 and broken up 25 November 1957. Berkeley ...
- ... roken up 15 August 1958. Hambledon Builder: Swan Hunter , Wallsend Laid down: 8 June 1939 Launched: 12 december 1939 Completed: 8 June 1940 Fate: Paid off December 1945 and broken up 4 February 1958. Holderness ...
- ... 946 and broken up 11 September 1957. Cottesmore Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders , Scotstoun Laid down: 12 december 1939 Launched: 5 September 1940 Completed: 29 December 1940 Fate: Paid off 28 February 1946. Sold t ...
- ... y 1939 Launched: 5 June 1940 Completed: 2 December 1940 Fate: Sunk by the German submarine U-593 on 12 december 1943. Whaddon Builder: Stephens , Linthouse Laid down: 27 July 1939 Launched: 16 July 1940 Complete ...
- ... ferred to Greece as Kanaris Haydon – Vickers-Armstrongs Holcombe – Stephens – Torpedoed by U-593 on 12 december 1943 Limbourne – Stephens – Torpedoed by T-22 October 1943 Melbreak – Swan Hunter Modbury – Swan Hu ...
#10 HMS Hursley (L84)
HMS Hursley was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy . She is the only Royal Navy ship to have carried this name. Hursley is a village in Hampshire . Commissioned in 1942, she served in the Mediterranean, before being transferred to the Hellenic Navy in No
- ... . [1] After V-E Day she was transferred on loan to the Royal Hellenic Navy and remained there until 12 december 1959 when she reverted to Royal Navy control and was placed on the Disposal List. The ship was sold ...
#11 USS Blue (DD-744)
USS Blue (DD-744) , an Allen M. Sumner -class destroyer , was the second United States Navy ship of that name, for Lieutenant Commander John S. Blue (1902–1942). Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see USS Blue . History United States Name Blue Namesake John S. Blue B
- ... en June and September, she returned to Pacific Reserve Fleet and was decommissioned at San Diego on 12 december 1949. KOREA Blue was again placed in commission 15 September 1950 and reported to Destroyer Divisio ...
#12 Indomito-class destroyer
The Indomito class was a class of destroyers of the Italian Royal Navy ( Italian : Règia Marina ) before and during World War I . Six were built at Naples by Societa Pattison between 1910 and 1913. They were the first large Italian destroyers and the first fitted with steam turbines . The class is s
- ... 1913 Sunk 4 December 1915 by a mine from German U-boat UC-14 Irrequieto (IR) Pattison, Naples 1910 12 december 1912 1913 Stricken 11 October 1937
#13 HMS Brecon (L76)
HMS Brecon was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War , one of two ships in the fourth subgroup of the class, built to a radically different design from other ships in the Hunt class. Destroyer of the Royal Navy For other ships with the same name, see HMS B
- ... ruary 1941 Launched 27 June 1942 Commissioned 18 December 1942 Decommissioned Paid off into reserve 12 december 1945 Motto By luck and good guidance Honours and awards Atlantic 1943 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Sout ...
- ... ptember to attend the surrender of the Japanese occupying forces . Brecon returned to Portsmouth on 12 december 1945 to be paid-off and was placed into Reserve status. POSTWAR & FATE Brecon remained in Reser ...
#14 HMS Verulam (R28)
HMS Verulam was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War . Frigate of the Royal Navy For other ships with the same name, see HMS Verulam . Verulam anchored in the Clyde , December 1943 History United Kingdom Name HMS Verulam Ordered 1 September 1941
- ... red 1 September 1941 Builder Swan Hunter Laid down 26 June 1942 Launched 22 April 1943 Commissioned 12 december 1943 Decommissioned 1970 Identification Pennant number R28/F29 Honours and awards Arctic 1944 Norma ...
#15 USS Moale
USS Moale (DD-693) was the second Allen M. Sumner -class destroyer of the United States Navy . Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Moale History United States Name Moale Namesake Edward Moale, Jr. Builder Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Laid down 5 August 1943 Launched 16 January 1944 Comm
- ... d three dead and twenty-five wounded. Allen M. Sumner recorded no fatalities but had 11 wounded. On 12 december , Moale shifted to TG 77.3 and took up a screening position with the Mindoro assault force. On 15 De ...
#16 HMS Derwent (L83)
HMS Derwent was a Hunt-class Type III destroyer escort of the Royal Navy . She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs , in Barrow-in-Furness , and served during the Second World War . In March 1943, she was badly damaged while anchored in Tripoli harbour by aircraft and beached to prevent her from sinking.
- ... ype 128 sonar . [8] [9] Derwent was laid down at Vickers Armstrong 's Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 12 december 1940, was launched on 22 August 1941, and was completed on 24 April 1942. [3] [10] SERVICE HISTORY ...
#17 HMS Wolverine (1910)
HMS Wolverine was a Beagle -class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 15 January 1910. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead . Destroyer of the Royal Navy For other ships with the same name, see HMS Wolverine . HMS Wolverine History United Kingdom Name HMS Wolverine Builder Cammell Laird
- ... e HMS Wolverine Builder Cammell Laird , Birkenhead Launched 15 January 1910 Fate Sunk in collision, 12 december 1917 General characteristics Class and type Beagle -class destroyer Length 274 ft (84 m) Beam 28 ft ...
- ... lla now based at Buncrana , near Lough Swilly in the north of Ireland in October 1917. [31] [32] On 12 december 1917, Wolverine sank following a collision with the fleet sweeping sloop Rosemary off the northwest ...
#18 SMS Triglav
SMS Triglav [Note 1] was one of six Tátra -class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine ( Austro-Hungarian Navy ) shortly before the First World War . Completed in August 1914, the ship participated in an unsuccessful attempt to recapture a small island in the Central Adria
- ... in 1914 and early 1915 between the Entente Cordiale and the Central Powers . [5] From 9 November to 12 december , Triglav had her propeller shaft bearings replaced. [6] BOMBARDMENT OF ANCONA Main article: Bombard ...
#19 Leningrad-class destroyer
The six Leningrad -class destroyer leaders were built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s. They were inspired by the contre-torpilleurs built for the French Navy . They were ordered in two batches of three ships each; the first group was designated Project 1 and the second Project 38. These ships
- ... 2 June 1943. [17] Leningrad was part of the third evacuation convoy from Hanko to Leningrad from 9–1 12 december but was forced to turn back by damage from nearby mine explosions. [18] For most of the rest of the ...
#20 USS Kimberly (DD-521)
USS Kimberly (DD-521) was a Fletcher -class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947, then from 1951 to 1954. In 1967, she was transferred to the Republic of China Navy where she served as ROCS An Yang (DD-18/DDG-918) until 1999. The destroyer was sunk as a target in 2003.
- ... fore sailing 6 October via the Philippines , Suez Canal and the Mediterranean . Arriving Norfolk on 12 december , Kimberly operated along the Atlantic coast and Caribbean on training exercises until she arrived i ...