HMS Collingwood was a St Vincent-class dreadnought battleship built for the British Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Launched on 7 November 1908 and commissioned in April 1910, the ship was equipped with armour 10 inches (254 mm) thick, and ten 12-inch guns. She served in the Home Fleet and Grand Fleet, at times as the flagship of Rear- Admiral Ernest Gaunt. Prince Albert (later King George VI) spent several years aboard the ship before and during World War I. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the largest naval battle of the war, Collingwood was in the middle of the battleline; she did some damage to the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger, and shelled the light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden. Apart from that battle and the inconclusive Action of 19 August, her service during the war generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. The ship was deemed obsolete after the war, reduced to reserve, and used as a training ship before being sold for scrap in 1922.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1278:
Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the post of Retired Emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Trần Khâm for eleven more years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_Th%C3%A1nh_T%C3%B4ng
1644:
The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor
1895:
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (first radiograph pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray
1966:
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke
1987:
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
vote: 1. A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities. 2. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot. 3. (obsolete) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vote
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good. Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail in measure and in as much as we fail, in so much we fall; and in as much as we fall, in so much we die: for it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life. Our failing is dreadful, our falling is shameful, and our dying is sorrowful: but in all this the sweet eye of pity and love is lifted never off us, nor the working of mercy ceaseth. For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love. --Julian of Norwich https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich
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