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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.
Peter Langkjær Madsen (Danish: [ˈpʰe̝ˀtɐ ˈlɑŋˌkʰeˀɐ̯ ˈmæsn̩]; born 12 January 1971) [1] is a Danish convicted murderer and former entrepreneur. In April 2018, he was convicted of the August 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on board his submarine, UC3 Nautilus , and sentenced to life imprisonment .
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 ...
Cecere, Michael. Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2005. ISBN 0-7884-3584-1.. Andrew Burstein, The Passions of Andrew Jackson (New York: Random House, 2003), 8.
So, upon entering a fog, the Collingwood ' s captain, Thomas J. Carson, slowed his boat and allowed the Arlington to take the lead. Though the routine weather reports indicated seasonably mild and breezy weather with light flurries, the low-slung Arlington – having only 3.5 feet of freeboard when fully loaded – was being boarded ...
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.
Captain Thomas Townsend was in Rhode Island after the Dutch and English war, and engaged in trading. Later he went to Oyster Bay where he obtained land and built a house around 1673. He was named a patentee securing title to land in 1677. Records indicate Thomas resided in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1686, where he was chosen sheriff in 1696.
George Pollard Jr. was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son of Tamar Pollard (née Bunker) and George Pollard, a ship's captain, [2] at a time when the principal industry there was hunting sperm whales to harvest the oil contained in their blubber and spermaceti. [3]