T3 was a sea-going torpedo boat operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy
between 1921 and 1941. Originally 78 T, a 250t-class torpedo boat
commissioned on 23 August 1914 by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, she saw
active service during World War I, performing convoy, escort and
minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore bombardment
missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, she was allocated
to Yugoslavia and renamed T3. She was captured by the Italians during
the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. After her main armament
was modernised, she served with the Royal Italian Navy as T3, although
she was only used for coastal and second-line tasks. Following the
Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was captured by Germany, and
after being fitted with additional anti-aircraft guns, she served with
the German Navy and the Navy of the Independent State of Croatia as
TA48. In German and Croatian service her crew of 52 consisted entirely
of Croatian officers and enlisted men. She was sunk by Allied aircraft
in February 1945 while in the port of Trieste, where she had been built.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_torpedo_boat_T3>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London>
1898:
The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departed from London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Expedition>
1927:
After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests,
Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti (both pictured) were
executed via electrocution in Massachusetts for murder.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti>
1943:
World War II: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of
Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the
war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk>
2010:
A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist
bus in Manila and held its occupants hostage for nearly 11 hours before
being killed by police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_hostage_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
paean:
1. (Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of
thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another
god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
3. An enthusiastic expression of praise.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paean>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die, While
the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?
--William Ernest Henley
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