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U-58: Ordered: 6 October 1914: Builder: AG Weser, Bremen: Yard number: 213: Laid down: 8 June 1915: Launched: 31 May 1916: Commissioned: 9 August 1916: Fate: Depth charged by the destroyer USS Fanning in Cork Harbour. 2 dead, 38 survivors. General characteristics [1] Class and type: Type U 57 submarine: Displacement: 786 t (774 long tons ...
SM UB-58, a Type UB III submarine launched in 1917 and sunk on 10 March 1918 SM UC-58 , a Type UC II submarine launched in 1916 and surrendered on 24 November 1918; broken up at Cherbourg in 1921 German submarine U-58 (1938) , a Type IIC submarine that served in the Second World War until scuttled on 3 May 1945
German submarine U-58 was a Type IIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served in the Second World War. She was produced by Deutsche Werke AG , Kiel . Ordered on 17 June 1937, she was laid down on 29 September as yard number 257.
[9] [15] [16] On 23 June 1942, a Whitley of 58 Squadron attacked the German submarine U-753 in the Bay of Biscay, badly damaging the submarine. [17] At the end of August 1942 the squadron moved to RAF Stornoway in the Western Isles. [11] On 15 September 1942 a 58 Squadron Whitley sank the German submarine U-261 near the Rosemary Bankwest of ...
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The initial "V.G.O."-series of Zeppelin-Staaken "Giants" were very large aircraft by the standards of 1915, and its four-bay interplane-strut per side wing structure, planform shape (having slightly swept-back leading edges) and general wing structural dimensions would be used, almost unchanged, for the entire series of Zeppelin-Staaken multi ...
In 1908, the US Army experimented with its first powered aircraft, the SC-1, or Signal Corps number 1. [4] It was a small non-rigid airship with a top speed under 20 mph and an endurance of just over 2 hours. Following tests at Fort Myer, the SC-1 was sent to Fort Omaha, Nebraska, where the Signal Corps School was located.
The Austro-Hungarian aircraft were powered by 119 kW (160 hp) Austro-Daimler or 130 kW (180 hp) Hiero engines and armed by a single 8 mm (.315 in) Schwarzlose machine gun. The German aircraft were powered by 110 kW (150 hp) Benz Bz.III engines and armed with one or two lMG 08/15 machine guns.