langs: 20 декабря [ru] / december 20 [en] / 20. dezember [de] / 20 décembre [fr] / 20 dicembre [it] / 20 de diciembre [es]
days: december 17 / december 18 / december 19 / december 20 / december 21 / december 22 / december 23
Lighthouse / Lighthouse
#1 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
- ... vessel, the lighthouse tender Hesperus , was unable to sail from Breasclete , Lewis , as planned on 20 december due to adverse weather; it did not reach the island until noon on 26 December. [8] The lighthouse w ...
#2 Shiriyazaki Lighthouse
Shiriyazaki Lighthouse ( 尻屋埼灯台 , Shiriyazaki tōdai ) is a lighthouse located on the outermost extremity of Cape Shiriyazaki , the northeasternmost point of Honshu , in Higashidōri , Aomori Prefecture , Japan . It received protection as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017. [2] Lighthouse
- ... ility in the area. This was the first fog bell in Japan, but the sound proved to be too weak, so on december 20, 1879 it was replaced by the first fog horn in Japan. [3] Other noteworthy events include the instal ...
#3 Mew Island Lighthouse
Mew Island Lighthouse is an active lighthouse within the Copeland Islands of County Down in Northern Ireland . The current 19th-century tower is the most recent in a series of lighthouses that have been built in the islands, which have helped to guide shipping around the archipelago and into Belfast
- ... 8 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) Characteristic F.Fl(4) W 30s. Listed Building – Grade B+ Designated 20 december 1976 Reference no. HB24/06/034 A number of different fuels, including coal gas , paraffin, and dies ...
#4 Great Tower Neuwerk
The Great Tower Neuwerk is the most significant building of the Neuwerk island, belonging to Hamburg . Completed in 1310, the structure is one of the oldest worldwide that was used as lighthouse (1814–2014) and still standing. This former beacon , watchtower and lighthouse is also the oldest buildin
- ... 4] [5] The towers and beacons of Neuwerk (1825/1831) The tower was only turned into a lighthouse on 20 december 1814. The first lamp was made of 21 hollow wick oil lamps with parabolic reflectors and burned on c ...
#5 Morris Island Light
Morris Island Light is a lighthouse on Morris Island in South Carolina. The light stands on the southern side of the entrance to Charleston Harbor , north of the City of Folly Beach . [2] [3] At 161 ft (49 m), it is the tallest lighthouse in South Carolina. [4] The lighthouse was named to the Nati
- ... w first-order lens was installed in the tower on January 1, 1858. Charleston Light Station, 1914 On december 20, 1813(?), on receiving reports from the lighthouse inspector at Charleston regarding the probable se ...
#6 Cape Blanco Light
Cape Blanco Light is a lighthouse located on Cape Blanco , Oregon , United States in Cape Blanco State Park . This article needs additional citations for verification . ( November 2014 ) Lighthouse Cape Blanco Light Cape Blanco Light Location Oregon Coordinates 42°50′12″N 124°33′48″W [1] Tower Const
- ... green lantern, red dome Heritage National Register of Historic Places listed place Light First lit december 20, 1870 Focal height 256 feet (78 m) Lens First order Fresnel (moved to Tongue Point in Astoria), Seco ...
#7 Scheveningen Lighthouse
De Scheveningen Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Scheveningen , Netherlands . It was designed by Quirinus Harder and activated finished in 1875. Lighthouse Scheveningen Lighthouse Scheveningen Lighthouse Location Scheveningen , Netherlands Coordinates 52°6′15″N 4°16′6″E Tower Constructed 1875 Construct
- ... ngs red tower, white balcony and lantern, green lantern dome Heritage Rijksmonument Light First lit 20 december 1875 Focal height 49 metres (161 ft) Intensity 3,800,000 candela Range 29 nautical miles (54 km) Ch ...
Manufacturer / Manufacturer
#1 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
- ... pril 1900 [181] Lady North 195 Twin Screw Steamer 18 May 1900 [182] Bengali 196 Steel Screw Steamer 20 december 1900 [183] Monte Video 197 Single Screw 3 July 1901 [184] Ingerid 198 Single Screw 19 April 1901 [1 ...
#2 Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd , abbreviated as GRSE , is one of India's leading shipyards , located in Kolkata , West Bengal . [3] It builds and repairs commercial and naval vessels. [4] Presently GRSE has also started building export ships in a mission to expand its business. Indian shi
- ... TS MCGS Barracuda at sea during delivery GRSE delivered the corvette MCGS Barracuda to Mauritius on 20 december 2014. The contract was worth $58.5 million. [17] With this, India will join the elite club of warsh ...
Ship / Ship
#1 HMS Crossbow (D96)
HMS Crossbow was a Weapon-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from 1948 and scrapped in 1972. Weapon-class destroyer HMS Crossbow (D96) moored at Trondheim. May 1961 (IWM). History United Kingdom Name HMS Crossbow Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company Laid down 26 August 1944 Launc
- ... d Kingdom Name HMS Crossbow Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company Laid down 26 August 1944 Launched 20 december 1945 Completed 4 March 1948 Identification Pennant number D96 Fate Sold 14 December 1971, broken up ...
#2 HMS Venus (R50)
HMS Venus was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War . She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company , of Govan , Scotland and launched on 23 February 1943. Frigate of the Royal Navy For other ships with the same name, see HMS Venus . Ven
- ... ssile system. She was sold to Thos. W. Ward for scrapping and arrived at their Briton Ferry yard on 20 december 1972 to be broken up. PUBLICATIONS Colledge, J. J. ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal ...
#3 HMS Laforey (G99)
HMS Laforey was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy . She was commissioned in and served during the Second World War , and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in 1944. She had been adopted by the civil community of Northampton in November 1941. Destroyer of the Royal Navy For other ships with the
- ... orted the troopship Duchess of Atholl out of Liverpool en route to Gibraltar, where they arrived on 20 december . On 21 December Laforey and Lightning carried out rescue operations after the torpedoing of Stratha ...
#4 USS McKean (DD-784)
USS McKean (DD-784) was a Gearing -class destroyer of the United States Navy built by the Todd Pacific Ship Building Company in Seattle , Washington state . Gearing-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see USS McKean . USS McKean (DD-784) in 1952 History United States Name USS McKean
- ... r-picket destroyer. A salvage ship, the submarine rescue ship USS Greenlet , arrived from Sasebo on 20 december , to join the five destroyers and three anti-submarine airplanes at the site of the sinking. A hard ...
#5 Weapon-class destroyer
The Weapon class was a class of destroyers built for the British Royal Navy towards the end of World War II . They were the smaller counterpart to the Battle class (which followed them) and were the first new destroyer designs for the Royal Navy since the Second World War Emergency Programme . 20 sh
- ... r 1945, scrapped on slip Crossbow G96/D96 John I. Thornycroft and Company , Woolston 26 August 1944 20 december 1945 4 March 1948 Broken up, 1972 Culverin G28 27 April 1944 March 1946 not completed Broken up at ...
#6 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-
- ... t as the Type I – Blencathra , Brocklesby and Liddesdale . A final batch of sixteen were ordered on 20 december 1939. Avon Vale – John Brown, Clydebank Badsworth – To the Royal Norwegian Navy as Arendal Beaufort ...
#7 USS Ellyson (DD-454)
USS Ellyson (DD-454/DMS-19) , a Gleaves -class destroyer , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Theodore Gordon Ellyson , a submariner who became the first officer of the U.S. Navy to be designated a naval aviator . Gleaves-class destroyer History United States Name USS Ellyson
- ... Ellyson Namesake Theodore Gordon Ellyson Builder Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Laid down 20 december 1940 Launched 26 July 1941 Commissioned 28 November 1941 Identification DD-454 Decommissioned 19 Oc ...
- ... harge tracks SERVICE HISTORY Ellyson was laid down by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey on 20 december 1940. She was launched on 26 July 1941 sponsored by Miss Gordon Ellyson, daughter of Commander Elly ...
#8 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
- ... service until 1959. [1] Destroyer of the Royal Navy History United Kingdom Name HMS Hursley Ordered 20 december 1939 Builder Swan Hunter , Tyne and Wear , United Kingdom Laid down 21 December 1940 Launched 25 Ju ...
- ... h charges , 2 throwers, 3 racks CONSTRUCTION Hursley was ordered with 15 others of the same type on 20 december 1939 as part of the War Emergency Programme. The ship was laid down by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on 2 ...
#9 Japanese destroyer Kuwa (1944)
Kuwa ( 桑 , " Mulberry ") was one of 18 Matsu -class escort destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II . Destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy Sister ship Momi , 4 September 1944 History Empire of Japan Name Kuwa Namesake Mulberry Builder Fujinagata Shipyards , Osaka Laid d
- ... History Empire of Japan Name Kuwa Namesake Mulberry Builder Fujinagata Shipyards , Osaka Laid down 20 december 1943 Launched 25 May 1944 Completed 15 July 1944 Stricken 10 February 1945 Fate Sunk by gunfire, 3 ...
#10 USS Benham (DD-796)
USS Benham (DD-796) was a Fletcher -class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1960. She was then transferred to Peru where she served as BAP Villar (DD-71) until being scrapped in 1980. Fletcher-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see U
- ... ethlehem Steel Company , Staten Island Laid down 23 April 1943 Launched 30 August 1943 Commissioned 20 december 1943 to 18 October 1946 24 March 1951 to 30 June 1960 Stricken 15 January 1974 Fate Loaned to Peru, ...
- ... k ; sponsored by Mrs. Harold Benham, wife of a grandson of Rear Admiral Benham; and commissioned on 20 december 1943. WORLD WAR II 1944 After fitting out at New York , Benham conducted her initial shakedown trai ...
#11 USS Twiggs (DD-591)
USS Twiggs (DD-591) , a Fletcher -class destroyer , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Marine Major Levi Twiggs (1793 – 1847). Fletcher-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see USS Twiggs . USS Twiggs (DD-591), in camouflage paint, 23 February 1945. History
- ... rce flights out of Leyte augmented escort protection of the convoy. Twiggs retired to the Palaus on 20 december . Twiggs sortied from Kossol Roads on 1 January 1945 protecting a large task force intended for the ...
#12 USS McGowan
USS McGowan (DD-678) was a Fletcher -class destroyer of the United States Navy , named for Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan (1870 – 1934). Fletcher-class destroyer USS McGowan (DD-678) History United States Name McGowan Namesake Samuel McGowan Builder Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. , Kearny, N.J. La
- ... uilding & Dry Dock Co. , Kearny, N.J. Laid down 30 June 1943 Launched 14 November 1943 Commissioned 20 december 1943 Decommissioned 30 November 1960 Stricken 1 October 1972 Fate Transferred to Spain , 1 December ...
- ... November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Rose McG. Cantey, sister of Rear Admiral McGowan, and commissioned 20 december 1943. WORLD WAR II Post shakedown training completed in time to participate in the Marianas campaig ...
#13 Soviet destroyer Kharkov
Kharkov ( Russian : Ха́рьков ) was one of six Leningrad -class destroyer leaders built for the Soviet Navy during the 1930s, one of the three Project 1 variants. Completed in 1938, she was slightly damaged during the Raid on Constanța a few days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 Ju
- ... rom Novorossisk and Tuapse to Sevastopol between 7–13 December, the 79th Naval Rifle Brigade on 19–2 20 december and the 354th Rifle Division between 21–22 December, bombarding German positions in the interim. [19 ...
- ... ilov on a mission to bombard Axis positions on Feodonisi and bombarded Yalta during the night of 19/ 20 december . On the night of 4 February 1943, the Soviets made a series of amphibious landings to the west of N ...
#14 USS Alfred A. Cunningham
USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752) , an Allen M. Sumner -class destroyer , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Alfred Austell Cunningham , a USMC officer and aviator . Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer History United States Namesake Alfred Austell Cunningham Builder Bethlehem Mar
- ... ions near Taiwan with other ships of Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 131. She returned to Long Beach on 20 december 1953. A regular overhaul kept her at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard from February through April 195 ...
#15 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
- ... rom Novorossisk and Tuapse to Sevastopol between 7–13 December, the 79th Naval Rifle Brigade on 19–2 20 december and the 354th Rifle Division between 21–22 December, bombarding German positions in the interim. Bet ...
- ... lov on a mission to bombard Axis positions on Feodonisi and bombarded Yalta during the night of 19–2 20 december On the night of 4 February 1943 the Soviets made a series of amphibious landings to the west of Nov ...
#16 USS Picking
USS Picking (DD-685) , a Fletcher -class destroyer , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Sherwood Picking (1890 – 1941), a submarine commander during World War I . Fletcher-class destroyer History United States Name Picking Namesake Sherwood Picking Builder Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporat
- ... N.Y. Laid down 24 November 1942 Launched 1 June 1943 Commissioned 21 September 1943 Decommissioned 20 december 1945 Recommissioned 26 January 1951 Decommissioned 6 September 1969 Stricken 1 March 1975 Fate Sunk ...
- ... ed for Saipan . Following her return to San Francisco at the end of the war, Picking decommissioned 20 december 1945, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego . 1951 – 1969 Picking off Oahu, 1963. In r ...
#17 USS Schley (DD-103)
USS Schley (DD-103) was a Wickes -class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and later designated, APD-14 in World War II . She was the first ship named in honor of Winfield Scott Schley . Wickes-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see USS Schley . USS Schley underw
- ... ble to do little besides reply with small arms fire. Her overhaul was rushed to completion; and, on 20 december , she took up a patrol station off the channel approaching Pearl Harbor. She operated there and off ...
#18 SMS S17 (1912)
SMS S17 [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] was a V1-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy . The ship was built by Schichau-Werke , at their Elbing shipyard, completing in 1912. S17 served with the German High Seas Fleet during the First World War , taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
- ... 1914 and the Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914. [7] On the night of 19/ 20 december 1914, the two torpedo boats S22 and S23 of the 7th Flotilla stopped the Swedish steamer Argo , susp ...
#19 HMS Viscount (D92)
HMS Viscount was a V-class destroyer (Thornycroft V and W class) of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II . Destroyer of the Royal Navy HMS Viscount sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I92. History United Kingdom Name H
- ... 916 [1] or July 1916 [2] Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company , Woolston , Hampshire [3] Laid down 20 december 1916 [3] Launched 29 December 1917 [3] Completed 4 March 1918 [3] Commissioned 4 March 1918 [1] Dec ...
- ... ramme and was laid down by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston , Hampshire , England , [3] on 20 december 1916. Although broadly similar, Viscount was one of only two V-Class destroyers built by Thornycrof ...
#20 USS Anthony (DD-515)
USS Anthony (DD-515) , a Fletcher -class destroyer , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Marine Sergeant Major William Anthony (1853–1899). Fletcher-class destroyer For other ships with the same name, see USS Anthony . USS Anthony (DD-515) off Mare Island Navy Yard , Califo
- ... tes Name Anthony Namesake William Anthony Builder Bath Iron Works Laid down 17 August 1942 Launched 20 december 1942 Commissioned 26 February 1943 Decommissioned 17 April 1946 Stricken 15 April 1972 Identificati ...
- ... Anthony was laid down on 17 August 1942, at Bath, Maine , by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 20 december 1942; sponsored by Miss Alice Anthony and Miss Frances Anthony, granddaughters of Sergeant Major Wi ...
- ... r to travel to San Diego for a week of refresher training. The destroyer departed the west coast on 20 december with a convoy bound for Hawaii and reached Pearl Harbor on 30 December. 1945 There, she began prepa ...