Peresvet was the lead ship of the three pre-dreadnought battleships of the Peresvet class built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo- Japanese War of 1904–05, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the Siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami. Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defence ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars
1845:
Captain John Franklin (engraving shown) departed Greenhithe, England, on an expedition to the Canadian Arctic; all 129 men were later lost when their ships became icebound in Victoria Strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition
2015:
A corroded oil pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California, spilled 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the U.S. West Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
gnomon: 1. An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. 2. An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. 3. The index of the hour circle of a globe. 4. (geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. 5. (mathematics, by extension) A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomon
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. --Edward de Bono https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono