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SS Leonardo da Vinci was an ocean liner built in 1960 by Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy for the Italian Line as a replacement for their SS Andrea Doria that had been lost in 1956. . She was initially used in transatlantic service alongside SS Cristoforo Colombo, and primarily for cruising after the delivery of the new SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello in 1965.
Leonardo da Vinci was built at the CRDA shipyard in Monfalcone, near Trieste, Italy's leading submarine builder.One of six boats of the Marconi class, which were laid down in 1938–39, Leonardo da Vinci was launched in September 1939.
Sailing again without the midget submarine, da Vinci sank six ships on its last patrol. While attempting to return to Bordeaux, da Vinci was sunk on 23 May 1943 by the escorts of convoy KMF 15. There were no survivors. Leonardo da Vinci was the top scoring non-German submarine of the entire war. [3] [4] [5]
Leonardo da Vinci was the last of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnoughts built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the early 1910s. Completed just before the beginning of World War I, the ship saw no action and was sunk by a magazine explosion in 1916 with the loss of 248 officers and enlisted men.
Paddle boat: first designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s [163] Pantelegraph: a device for telegraphic transmission of writing and drawing invented by Giovanni Caselli. Commercial service started in 1865. It was the first functional Fax Machine to enter commercial service [164] [165] Parachute: dates back to the Renaissance Italy
Such was the case back in the 1480s, when a young Leonardo da Vinci was coming up in. Alamy By Drake Baer Even a Renaissance man is occasionally on the job hunt. Such was the case back in the ...
SS Leonardo da Vinci: 1958 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1982 Leonardo da Vinci on February 5th, 1975. RMS Lucania: 1893 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1909 R.M.S. Lucania: SS Lusitania: 1906 Wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa, on 18 April 1911 S.S. Lusitania: RMS Lusitania: 1906 Torpedoed and sunk on May 7, 1915
The artworks of Leonardo da Vinci are vast and storied. “The Last Supper.” “The Vitruvian Man.” The “Mona Lisa” for goodness sake.But even amongst such a storied and well-studied body ...