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It was built over a three-year period by Peter Madsen and a group of volunteers, and cost approximately US$200,000 to build (1.5 million DKK). The submarine was Madsen's third submarine design. [2] On 11 August 2017, Nautilus sank in the bay of Køge, in what investigators determined was a deliberate act by Madsen.
Convicted of her murder, Madsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 April 2018 by Copenhagen City Court [4] following a widely publicised trial. [5] On 20 October 2020, Madsen briefly escaped from prison by threatening a prison employee but was surrounded and apprehended by police 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the prison and taken into ...
Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen, VC, MC & Two Bars (22 September 1920 – 9 April 1945) was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War.
Undated - Money seized from Captain Kidd, executed only four years before, is presented by Queen Anne to Greenwich Hospital totaling £6,472. [1] [2]March – April - Captain Thomas Green and his crew, consisting of 14 officers and crew members, are tried by the High Court of the Admiralty and found guilty of piracy, robbery, and murder.
The first trial for piracy was of the 13 men, including Captain Thomas H. Baker, captured on privateer Savannah. The trial was held in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. It began on 23 October 1861, [27] and from the start attracted wide public notice. The mere fact of the trial drew outrage in the ...
Tom Madsen (programmer), a videogame developer on DikuMUD; Charles Thomas Madsen Sr. (aka Tom Madsen; died 2002), an Alaskan bush pilot who was the namesake of Unalaska Airport; Thomas Madsen, bronze medalist for Denmark in boy's singles at the 1987 European Junior Badminton Championships
USS South Dakota (BB-57) was the lead vessel of the four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, the South Dakotas were able to take advantage of a treaty clause that allowed them to increase the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns.
Captain Thomas Hansen Snr. (1762-1837) was the master of the first mission ship to New Zealand , the brig Active . Hansen was born in 1762, and baptised in the parish of St Peter upon Cornhill , London, on 8 May 1763 at age 16 months.