SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the fifth and final vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the Imperial German Navy. Prinzregent Luitpold's keel was laid in October 1910 at the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel. She was launched on 17 February 1912 and was commissioned into the navy on 19 August 1913. Prinzregent Luitpold was assigned to the III Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career; in December 1916, she was transferred to the IV Battle Squadron. Along with her four sister ships, Kaiser, Friedrich der Grosse, Kaiserin, and König Albert, Prinzregent Luitpold participated in all of the major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. The ship was also involved in Operation Albion, an amphibious assault on the Russian-held islands in the Gulf of Riga, in late 1917. After Germany's defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918, Prinzregent Luitpold and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow. Prinzregent Luitpold was raised in July 1931 and subsequently broken up for scrap in 1933.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

295 BC:

The oldest known temple to Venus (pictured), the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)

1745:

Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands to begin the Second Jacobite Rising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745

1942:

Second World War: Allied forces suffered over 3,000 casualties when they unsuccessfully raided the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

1981:

Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters while the U.S. Navy conducted military exercises in the Gulf of Sidra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981)

2003:

A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded over 130 others on a crowded public bus in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

clemency: 1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing. 2. (now rare) Mildness of weather. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clemency

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