The Courageous class comprised three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Nominally designed to support Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Fisher's Baltic Project, which was intended to land troops on the German Baltic Coast, ships of this class were fast but very lightly armoured with only a few heavy guns. To maximize their speed, the Courageous-class battlecruisers were the first capital ships of the Royal Navy to use geared steam turbines and small-tube boilers. The first two ships, Courageous and Glorious, were commissioned in 1917 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. Their half-sister Furious was designed with a pair of 18-inch (457 mm) guns, the largest guns ever fitted on a ship of the Royal Navy, but was modified during construction to take a flying-off deck and hangar in lieu of her forward gun turret and barbette. All three ships were laid up after the end of the war and were rebuilt as aircraft carriers during the 1920s.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courageous_class_battlecruiser

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1867:

In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established as the first dental school in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_School_of_Dental_Medicine

1918:

The RMS Carpathia, which had rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic sinking, was itself sunk by a German U-boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia

1945:

Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman, leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post- World War II Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference

1968:

Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi President Abdul Rahman Arif. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_al-Bakr

2009:

Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jakarta_bombings

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

disconsolate: 1. Cheerless, dreary. 2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconsolate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. --Martin Farquhar Tupper https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Farquhar_Tupper