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    Meteor was a German survey vessel, noted for her survey work in the Atlantic Ocean between 1925 and 1927. Handed over to the Soviet Union following World...
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    sounding was made during the German Meteor expedition. The depth is named after the German survey ship Meteor, which first surveyed the area as part of its...
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    conducted. The survey vessel Meteor left Wilhelmshaven on 16 April 1925 with the oceanographer Alfred Merz in charge of the expedition. The ship zigzagged...
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  • PS Meteor (1821), an early steam packet of the British Post Office Meteor (1915), a German survey ship Meteor (1964), a German research vessel Meteor (1986)...
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  • SMS Meteor may refer to one of the following ships: SMS Meteor (1865), a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy SMS Meteor (1887), an Austrian-Hungarian...
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    German Valdivia expedition led by marine biologist Carl Chun, and was later named after the survey ship Meteor, the ship in which the German Meteor expedition...
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    of Meteors were built to fly with the RAF and other air forces and remained in use for several decades. Slower and less heavily armed than its German counterpart...
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    deep-ocean soundings were made. Using a refined echo sounder, the German survey ship Meteor made several passes across the South Atlantic from the equator...
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    Battle of Havana (1870) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Havana on 9 November 1870 was an indecisive single ship action between the German gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet off the coast of Havana...
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    SMS Meteor was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the North German Federal Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1865. A small vessel, armed...
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    the German cruiser Emden was able to carry out a series of soundings of the ocean trench to the east of the Philippines. The German ship Meteor was the...
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  • list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) of Germany, covering...
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  • naval ships of Germany includes all naval ships which have been in service of the German Navy or its predecessors. Other lists include: List of ships of...
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    Camäleon-class gunboat (category Ships of the Prussian Navy)
    built for the Prussian Navy. Eight ships comprised the class: Camäleon, Comet, Cyclop, Delphin, Blitz, Basilisk, Meteor, and Drache. The vessels were armed...
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  • Günter Dietrich (category German oceanographers)
    in four cruises on the German survey ship Meteor in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea. He was drafted into the German Navy during World War II...
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  • Georg Wüst (category German oceanographers)
    the Emergency Association of German Science (see Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft). The German survey ship Meteor was made available for observations...
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  • Ice Planet (film) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    surroundings. A ground survey team discovers a vast subterranean energy network with a power source located some 500 kilometers from the ship. Meanwhile, in orbit...
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    from the naval register in 1911. Meteor was then used as a barracks ship, while Comet became a storage hulk; the two ships were broken up in 1919 and 1921...
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    Reichsmarine (category Articles containing German-language text)
    Z4 Richard Beitzen (1937-1949) Survey ship Meteor (1924–1945) Radio-controlled target ship Zähringen (1902–1945) Germany portal NV Ingenieurskantoor voor...
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    Filchner Ice Shelf. A German whaling fleet was put to sea in 1937 and, upon its successful return in early 1938, plans for a third German Antarctic expedition...
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    SMS Panther (1901) (category World War I naval ships of Germany)
    officers and crewmen for the survey vessel Meteor. In October 1924, KL Wilhelm Marschall relieved Conrad as the ship's captain. Panther was decommissioned...
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    Kondor-class minesweeper (category Naval ships of East Germany)
    pennant number P 521. It is still in service. The Kondor I vessels Komet and Meteor were transferred to Estonia as Vambola and Sulev in 1994. Sulev was scrapped...
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    8.8 cm SK L/30 naval gun (category Naval guns of Germany)
    III-class battleship Meteor-class aviso Odin-class coastal defense ship Preussen-class ironclad Siegfried-class coastal defense ship Type U 139 submarine...
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    Electronics (Bremen, Germany) installed a second-generation deep-sea multibeam called Hydrosweep DS on the German research vessel Meteor. The Hydrosweep DS...
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  • Günter Hessler (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    included navigational training cruises on the tender Frauenlob and the survey vessel Meteor. Hessler then advanced in rank to Fähnrich zur See (officer cadet)...
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    Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) (category Articles containing German-language text)
    and decoded German wireless transmissions, gaining advance knowledge that a German raiding squadron was heading for the Dogger Bank and ships of the Grand...
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    New Swabia (redirect from German New Swabia)
    Land. The region was named after the expedition's ship, Schwabenland, itself named after the German region of Swabia. Although the name "New Swabia" is...
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  •  East Germany Displacement: 361 tons Operators:  Estonian Navy: 1 delivered in 1994 (former Meteor) Kondor II-class minesweeper Builder:  East Germany Displacement:...
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    spiral arms are tightly wound. The Nu Eridanids, a recently discovered meteor shower, radiate from the constellation between August 30 and September 12...
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    Gnomonic projection (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    circles. Meteors also travel along great circles, with the Gnomonic Atlas Brno 2000.0 being the IMO's recommended set of star charts for visual meteor observations...
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