SMS Prinz Adalbert was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for
the German Kaiserliche Marine, and was named after Prince Adalbert of
Prussia, the former commander-in-chief of the Prussian Navy. Her class
included a second ship, Friedrich Carl. Prinz Adalbert was built at the
Imperial Dockyard in Kiel. Her keel was laid in April 1900 and she was
commissioned on 12 January 1904. She served as a gunnery training ship
and made several visits to foreign countries. After the outbreak of
World War I in July 1914 she served in the Baltic Sea, and after her
sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of a
cruiser squadron in the Baltic, conducting operations against Russian
forces. She was torpedoed twice by British submarines in 1915. On the
second occasion she sank quickly with heavy loss of life; from a crew of
675 men, only 3 were rescued. This was the worst German naval disaster
in the Baltic during the war. (This article is part of a featured
topic: Armored cruisers of Germany.).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops
defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_Sihayo%27s_Kraal>
1899:
During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station
transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to
rescue a damaged schooner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynmouth_Lifeboat_Station>
1969:
British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led
Zeppelin, in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_%28album%29>
2007:
Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet
in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
psychrometry:
(meteorology, thermodynamics) Synonym of psychrometrics (“the
measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the
atmosphere and its water vapour”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychrometry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the
pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and
mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless. The
prayers of those that are pure in mind and body will be answered by
Shiva, and those that are impure and yet try to teach religion to others
will fail in the end. External worship is only a symbol of internal
worship; but internal worship and purity are the real things. Without
them, external worship would be of no avail.
--Swami Vivekananda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda>
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