Kaiman Class Submarine
Kaiman may refer to: *''Kaiman'', lead ship of the ''Kaiman''-class torpedo boats *''Kaiman'', lead ship of the ''Kaiman''-class submarines * Moisés Kaiman (1913–2012), Polish-born Mexican rabbi * Jonathan Kaiman American journalist See also *Caiman (other) A caiman is an alligatorid in the subfamily Caimaninae. Caiman may also refer to: Arts and media * ''The Caiman'' (in Italian ''Il caimano''), a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti * ''Le Caïman'', a play by Antoine Rault * ...

Kaiman-class Torpedo Boat
The ''Kaiman'' class were high-seas torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1904 and 1910. A total of 24 boats were built by three shipbuilding companies. Yarrow Shipbuilders built the lead ship, Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino of Trieste built 13 boats, and Ganz Works, Ganz-Danubius constructed the remaining 10 boats at their shipyards at Rijeka, Fiume. The class was considered to be a successful design, and all boats saw extensive active service during World War I, undertaking a range of tasks, including escort duties, shore bombardments, and minesweeper, minesweeping. All survived, although several were damaged by naval mines and collisions. One was torpedoed and badly damaged by a French submarine, and two sank an Italian submarine. All the boats were transferred to the Allies of World War I, Allies and scrapped at the end of the war, except for four that were allocated to the Royal Yugoslav Navy, navy of the newly created Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of S ...
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Kaiman-class Submarine
The ''Kaiman'' class consisted of four submarines begun for the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Construction did not commence until after the war was ended and was very protracted with the boats not being completed until 1911 due to numerous defects that resulted in a legal battle between Lake and the Russian Government. The Russians impounded them in 1910 and they had to be rebuilt to remedy some of the defects. Assigned to the Baltic Fleet, they were very active during the early part of the First World War, albeit with little success. They were decommissioned in late 1916 to release their crews for newly constructed submarines. Design and description The ''Kaiman'' class was designed by the American submarine pioneer Simon Lake as enlarged versions of his with more torpedo tubes and a longer range that would enable to cruise of the Japanese coast. The boats displaced surfaced and submerged. They had an overall length of , a beam of , and ...
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Moisés Kaiman
Rabbi Moisés (Moshe) Kaiman (1913 – 22 January 2012) was the rabbi for the Jewish community of Monterrey, Mexico, from 1944 until his death in 2012. Besides his rabbinical duties, he acted as a liaison between the local Jewish community and the city's religious and political figures. He was a contributor to several newspapers and published six books. Biography Born in Szczuczyn, Poland, in an observant Jewish family, he became known for his knowledge and oratory. At 13, he left his home to study at the Rabbinical Seminary in Bialystock. According to anecdotes, his teachers and classmates used to call him "Moshe the sage". At 18, he graduated and received the title of rabbi. Kaiman fled Europe during World War II. His parents and siblings, and his wife's family, were murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Kaiman arrived in Cuba, where he was hired as a rabbi. His children were born while he worked there. In 1944 he moved to Monterrey in Mexico, af ...
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Jonathan Kaiman
Jonathan Kaiman is a journalist specializing in East Asia, especially China. He has also reported on Chinese activity in Africa as a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and has written for ''The New York Times'', The Atlantic, ''Foreign Policy'', and ''Reason'' magazine. A 2001 graduate of The Hudson School in New Jersey, he went on to graduate from Vassar College in 2009 after which he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar investigating the impact of modernization on ethnic folk music in China. From September 2012 to February 2015, he was the China correspondent for ''The Guardian''. From March 2015 through August 2016, he was the Asia correspondent for the ''Los Angeles Times''. In early 2017, ''National Public Radio'' noted that Kaiman was "Granted Rare Access To Pyongyang Celebration." In 2017, he was elected President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China; that same year, he was a Foreign Press Center Japan fellow. From August 2016 until September 201 ...
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