T1 was a seagoing torpedo boat, operational between 1914 and 1955.
Built as 76 T for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and armed with two 66 mm
(2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes, she could
carry 10 to 12 naval mines. During World War I she performed convoy,
escort and minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore
bombardment missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918 she and
seven other 250t-class boats were allocated to the Royal Yugoslav Navy,
as its only modern sea-going vessels. Renamed T1, she was involved in
training exercises and cruises. Captured by the Italians during the Axis
invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she served with the Royal Italian
Navy. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was
returned to the Yugoslav Navy. After World War II she was refitted and
served as Golešnica until 1955. Sunk as a target ship in the Bay of
Kotor, she is now a recreational dive site. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ships_of_the_Royal_Yugoslav_Navy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed
message from Arizona Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall>
1943:
World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle
of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a
larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arawe>
1970:
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of
Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another
planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7>
2013:
The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition
leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council
in Juba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shire:
1. (Britain)
2. (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about
the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and
jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area
corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially
(England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
3. (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered
collectively.
4. (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes
from or lives.
5. (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries.
6. (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local
government area which elects its own council.
7. Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed,
usually bay, black, or grey”).
8. (obsolete)
9. A district or province governed by a person; specifically
(Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
10. (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country.
11. (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region)
into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shire>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and
the sources of poetry. They are everyday, these sources, as the sources
of peace are everyday, infinite and commonplace as a look, as each new
sun.
--Muriel Rukeyser
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser>
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