Dubrovnik was a flotilla leader built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow in 1930 and 1931. One of the largest destroyers of the time, she was a fast ship with a main armament of four Czechoslovak-built Škoda 140 mm (5.5 in) guns in single mounts. During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Dubrovnik was captured by the Italians. After a refit, she was commissioned into the Royal Italian Navy as Premuda. In June 1942, she joined the Italian force that attacked the Allied Operation Harpoon convoy attempting to relieve the island of Malta. Premuda was the most important and effective Italian war prize ship of World War II. After the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943, the destroyer was seized by Germany and commissioned into the German Navy as TA32. In March 1945, the ship took part in the Battle of the Ligurian Sea against two Royal Navy destroyers. She was scuttled the following month as the Germans retreated from Genoa.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1478:
In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano during High Mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazzi
1865:
U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth
1958:
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue, one of the first major railway electrification systems in the U.S., made its final run. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Blue_(train)
1970:
The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being when its convention entered into force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization
1994:
Just prior to landing at Nagoya International Airport, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently pushed the wrong button, causing the plane to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
kenning: 1. (obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea. 2. (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles. 3. As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little. […] 4. (zoology, obsolete, rare) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula. […] 5. (poetry) A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way. […] 6. (Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kenning
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in "philosophical propositions", but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. --Ludwig Wittgenstein https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein