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The main armament of Thetis-class ships consisted of 20 mm and 40 mm guns, Mk 46 Mod5 torpedoes and mines and anti-submarine (A/S) mortars. The ships were also equipped with sonar . Later the A/S mortars were replaced by a second 40 mm gun and the single torpedo tubes by triple mountings.
SMS Thetis was the fourth member of the ten-ship Gazelle class of light cruisers that were built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier unprotected cruiser and aviso designs, combining the best aspects of both types in what became the progenitor of ...
Thetis was launched in 1801 at Lancaster as a West Indiaman. In 1804, in single ship action , she repelled an attack by a French privateer. Between 1806 and 1808 she made two complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people.
HDMS Thetis was a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, which she served from 1842 to 1864. She is best known for being one of the ships that picked up some of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen 's artworks and other belongings in Rome , some forty years after another Danish naval vessel by the same name had transported him the other way.
At least two classes of frigates have been named Thetis after their lead ship: Thetis-class frigate, a pair of steam frigates built for British Royal Navy in the 1840s and then sold to the Prussian Navy; Thetis-class patrol vessel, three patrol vessels of the Royal Danish Navy built in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Thetis was built at Nyholm to a design by Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt She was laid down on 19 August 1789 and the construction was completed on 19 May 1792. She was launched on 7 August 1790. [4] Thetis was 46.45 metres (152 ft 5 in) long, with a beam of 11.76 metres (38 ft 7 in) and a draught of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in).She displaced 658 1 ⁄ 2 ...
HMS Thetis was an Apollo-class second-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 December 1890. Her first significant mission was service in the Bering Sea Patrol with American warships in a combined effort to suppress poaching in the Bering Sea. She served on the Mediterranean Station until relieved in March 1901. [1]
She was launched April 29, 1986 and named for the cutters USRC Thetis, which served from 1899 to 1916, and USCGC Thetis, which served from 1931 to 1947. The Greek goddess Thetis, incidentally, was the mother of Achilles. The Famous Class cutter Thetis was commissioned on June 30, 1989. She conducts patrols throughout the Caribbean and the Gulf ...