T1 was a seagoing torpedo boat, operational between 1914 and 1955. Built as 76 T for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and armed with two 66 mm (2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes, she could carry 10 to 12 naval mines. During World War I she performed convoy, escort and minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore bombardment missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918 she and seven other 250t-class boats were allocated to the Royal Yugoslav Navy, as its only modern sea-going vessels. Renamed T1, she was involved in training exercises and cruises. Captured by the Italians during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she served with the Royal Italian Navy. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was returned to the Yugoslav Navy. After World War II she was refitted and served as Golešnica until 1955. Sunk as a target ship in the Bay of Kotor, she is now a recreational dive site. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall
1943:
World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arawe
1970:
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7
2013:
The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
shire: 1. (Britain) 2. (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire. 3. (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered collectively. 4. (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes from or lives. 5. (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries. 6. (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council. 7. Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”). 8. (obsolete) 9. A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc. 10. (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country. 11. (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shire
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. They are everyday, these sources, as the sources of peace are everyday, infinite and commonplace as a look, as each new sun. --Muriel Rukeyser https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser