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List Of Empire Ships (F)
Suffix beginning with F ''Empire Fabian'' ''Empire Fabian'' was an Empire F type coaster which was built by Henry Scarr Ltd, Hessle, Yorkshire. Laid down as ''CHANT 15'' and renamed ''Fabric 15'' before launch. Launched on 9 July 1944 as ''Empire Fabian'' and completed in July 1944. Sold in 1947 to Booker Brothers, McConnell & Co. Ltd and renamed ''Karani''. To Booker Shipping (Demerara) Ltd in 1950. Sold in 1969 to L Gibbs & M McIntosh, Georgetown, Guyana and renamed ''Gibmac''. ''Empire Fable'' ''Empire Fable'' was an Empire F type coaster which was built by Henry Scarr Ltd, Hessle. Laid down as ''CHANT 16'' and renamed ''Fabric 16'' before launch. Launched on 23 July 1944 as ''Empire Fable'' and completed in August 1944. Sold in 1946 to Cyprian Coastal Line Ltd. Operated under the management of P. Mantovani, Cyprus. Renamed ''Cyprus C'' in 1948. Sold in 1950 to De Malglaive Shipping Ltd, Windsor and renamed ''Yvonne Olivier''. Sold in 1954 to Hellenic Levant Lines Ltd, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire F Type Coaster
A CHANT (from ''Chan''nel ''T''anker) was a type of Prefabrication, prefabricated coastal trading vessel, coastal tank ship, tanker that was built in the United Kingdom during the Second World War due to a perceived need for coastal tankers after the Operation Overlord, invasion of France. Some CHANTs were adapted to carry dry cargos. These were known as the ''Empire F type'' coasters. Although five CHANTs were lost during the war, the majority of the ships saw service post war, lasting into the 1990s. Design The CHANT was developed with experience gained by building the Tug, Inshore and Dock (TID). As with the TIDs, CHANTs were built from prefabricated sections that were manufactured at various factories across the United Kingdom. A total of twenty-eight sections were welded together to make each ship. The largest sections weighed thirteen tons, which enabled them to be delivered by road. To simplify construction, they were built without compound curves, all plates being eithe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goole
Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's Historic counties of England, historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, Goole parish had a population of 20,475. It is north-east of Doncaster, south of York and west of Kingston upon Hull, Hull. The town has the United Kingdom's furthest inland port, being about from the North Sea. It is capable of handling nearly 2 million tonnes of cargo per year, making it one of the most important ports on England's east coast. Goole is twin towns and sister cities, twinned with Złotów in Poland. Goole was informally twinned with Gibraltar in the 1960s; at that time, Gibraltar Court was named in Goole and Goole Court was named in Gibraltar. History Etymology Goole is first attested in 1306, as ''Gull Lewth'' (where ''lewth'' means 'barn', from Old Norse ''hlaða''), and then 1362 as ''Gulle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Sable Island
Cape Sable Island, locally referred to as Cape Island, is a small Canada, Canadian island at the southernmost point of the Nova Scotia peninsula. It is sometimes confused with Sable Island. Historically, the Argyle, Nova Scotia region was known as Cape Sable and encompassed a much larger area than simply the island it does today. It extended from Cape Negro, Nova Scotia, Cape Negro through Chebogue, Nova Scotia, Chebogue. The island is situated in Shelburne County south of Barrington Head, Nova Scotia, Barrington Head, separated from the mainland by the narrow strait of Barrington Passage, but has been connected since 1949 by a causeway. The largest community on the island is the town of Clark's Harbour. Other communities are listed below. At the extreme southern tip is Cape Sable. History Cape Sable was first inhabited by the Mi'kmaq, who called the area and generally the island itself "Kespoogwitik", meaning "where the land ends". Cape Sable Island was charted by explorers f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Submarine U-432
German submarine ''U-432'' was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II. She carried out eight patrols. She sank 20 ships and one warship. Two ships were damaged. She was a member of seven wolfpacks. She was sunk by a French warship in mid-Atlantic on 11 March 1943. Design German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. ''U-432'' had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two AEG GU 460/8–27 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to . The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially, a ''fish''. The term ''torpedo'' originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, ''torpedo'' has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device. While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large ships without the need of large guns, though somet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Norway
The politics of Norway take place in the framework of a parliamentary, representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the Council of State, the cabinet, led by the prime minister of Norway. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the legislature, the Storting, elected within a multi-party system. The judiciary is independent of the executive branch and the legislature. According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Norway was 2023 the second most electoral democratic country in the world. Reporters Without Borders ranked Norway 1st in the world in the 2024 Press Freedom Index. Freedom House's 2020 Freedom in the World report classified Norway as "free", scoring maximum points in the categories of "political rights" and "civil liberties". Constitutional development The Norwegian constitution, signed by the Eidsvoll assembly on 17 May 1814, transformed Norway from being an absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy. The 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay Curle
Seawind Barclay Curle is a British shipbuilding company. History The company was founded by Robert Barclay at Stobcross in Glasgow, Scotland during 1818.Grace's Guide: Barclay Curle In 1862, the company built a large engineering works at Stobcross in Glasgow. In 1876, the company moved their yard down the river to . It was incorporated in 1884 as ''Barclay Curle''. In 1912, Barclay Curle acquired the nearby Elderslie Shipyard in from John Shearer & Sons, to take the excess orders that the firm's existing Clydeholm yard in Whiteinch could not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cargo Ship
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's List of seas, seas and Ocean, oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with crane (machine), cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. Today, they are almost always built of Welding, welded steel, and with some exceptions generally have a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years before being scrapped. Definitions The words ''cargo'' and ''freight'' have become interchangeable in casual usage. Technically, "cargo" refers to the goods carried aboard the ship for hire, while "freight" refers to the act of carrying of such cargo, but the terms have been used interchangeably for centuries. Generally, the modern ocean shipping business is divided into two classes: # Liner business: typically (but not exclusive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Fairbairn
''Kronprinsen'' was a cargo ship that was built as ''Empire Fairbairn'' in 1942 by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was transferred to the Norwegian Government before completion and renamed ''Kronprinsen''. She served until 9 June 1942, when she was torpedoed and damaged by off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was under repair until October 1943. In 1945, she was sold into merchant service. In 1952, she was sold to a Panamanian company and renamed ''Vori''. In 1967, she was sold to a Greek company and renamed ''Lukia M''. She sprang a leak on 10 February 1969, off Barren Island in the South China Sea, and was abandoned. The ship was towed to Shanghai, China, where it was reported that it had been seized by the Chinese Government. Description The ship was built in 1942 by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was yard number 686. The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Kronprinsen
''Kronprinsen'' was a cargo ship that was built as ''Empire Fairbairn'' in 1942 by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was transferred to the Norwegian Government before completion and renamed ''Kronprinsen''. She served until 9 June 1942, when she was torpedoed and damaged by off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was under repair until October 1943. In 1945, she was sold into merchant service. In 1952, she was sold to a Panamanian company and renamed ''Vori''. In 1967, she was sold to a Greek company and renamed ''Lukia M''. She sprang a leak on 10 February 1969, off Barren Island in the South China Sea, and was abandoned. The ship was towed to Shanghai, China, where it was reported that it had been seized by the Chinese Government. Description The ship was built in 1942 by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was yard number 686. The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
