The Uskok class was a class of two motor torpedo boats, Uskok and
Četnik, built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy. Laid down on 15 September
1926 and launched in May 1927, they were lightly built using mahogany
and powered by two petrol engines. Their main armament was two British-
designed 456 mm (18 in) torpedoes. They were also fitted with
hydrophones and could carry depth charges instead of torpedoes if used
in an anti-submarine role. When the Axis invaded Yugoslavia in
April 1941, Italian forces captured both boats. Commissioned in the
Royal Italian Navy, the boats operated out of the Dalmatian port of
Šibenik, their pre-war base. Their aged condition meant they were only
used for patrolling and second-line duties. Uskok sank near the
Dalmatian island of Mljet in July 1942 when its hull failed. Četnik
was no longer fully operational by September 1943. Soon after Italy
capitulated, its crew escaped and sailed it to Taranto in Allied-held
southern Italy. Četnik survived the war but sources differ on its fate.
(This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav
Navy.).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M;), the first
locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the
Duke of Wellington in attendance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_of_the_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway>
1902:
The first hydroelectric dam in Turkey began operations at
Tarsus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_Turkey>
1935:
Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of
their citizenship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws>
1972:
Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance
hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force
the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav
ambassador the previous year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_System_Flight_130>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
electorate:
1. The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who
are entitled to vote.
2. (historical) The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a
German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”);
an electorship.
3. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A geographical area represented by
one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electorate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What often prevents us from abandoning ourselves to one vice is
that we have several.
--François de La Rochefoucauld
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld>
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