HMS Meteorite was an experimental U-boat developed in Germany, scuttled at the end of World War II, subsequently raised and commissioned into the Royal...
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Look up Meteorite, meteorite, or météorite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A meteorite is an object that originates in outer space and impacts the...
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HMS Meteorite. Her recovery was the impetus for a British research programme which resulted in the construction of two experimental submarines, HMS Explorer...
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1959 and renamed Piyale Pasha. She was on their navy lists until 1979. HMS Meteorite List of ships named Meteor Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]...
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was salvaged and eventually recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Meteorite. This eventually led to the construction of the two Explorer-class experimental...
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September 1945 as HMS Meteorite. She served as the model for two further HTP boats, the Explorer-class submarines, HMS Explorer and HMS Excalibur. Type...
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Cuxhaven after WWII and rebuilt by the British, being commissioned as HMS Meteorite. It was the catalyst for a series of German-made air-independent propulsion...
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the Royal Navy as HMS Meteorite. The British built two improved models in the late 1950s, HMS Explorer and HMS Excalibur. Meteorite was not popular with...
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class HMS X1 Odin class Parthian class Rainbow class S class River class Grampus class T class U class P611 class V class Amphion class HMS Meteorite Explorer...
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anti-ship glide-bomb DFS 228 – rocket aircraft DFS 346 – rocket aircraft HMS Meteorite – HTP-powered submarine Zaloga, Steven (2008). German V-Weapon Sites...
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U-1407 was raised from where it had been scuttled and re-commissioned as HMS Meteorite. The Royal Navy constructed two more submarines using AIP engines before...
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HMS Exe HMS Blencathra HMS Dido HMS Garth HMS Meteorite HMS Scylla HMS Southdown HMS Whitehall RFA Abbeydale SS Baxtergate TSS Duke of Clarence HMS Explorer...
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Second World War HMS Meteorite – Formerly, the experimental, German Type XVII submarine U-1407; used by the Royal Navy post-war. HMS Seal (N37) – Royal...
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Thistle Meteor (1902 yacht) (1902) [de], Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht HMS Meteorite, an experimental submarine "Hermes (5617260)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved...
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on 28 February 1964 and later scrapped. German Type XVII submarine HMS Meteorite Polmar & Moore, pp. 39–40, 342 Polmar & Moore, pp. 41–42, 342 Pavlov...
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Britain as a war prize and became British N-class submarine N25 and later HMS Meteorite. U-boat.net webpage for U-1407 Type: XVIIB Construction Laid Down: November...
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Micrometeorite (redirect from Micro-meteorite)
atmosphere. Usually found on Earth's surface, micrometeorites differ from meteorites in that they are smaller in size, more abundant, and different in composition...
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damages of £843,000 — which have never been paid. Scott next commanded HMS Meteorite, an ex-German U-boat driven by high test peroxide (or HTP) which conferred...
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submarine-to-submarine combat kill of World War II. This occurred when the crew of HMS Venturer engaged the U-864, manually computed a successful firing solution...
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Court U-1407 1945 XVIIB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Surrendered 5 May 1945 HMS Meteorite U-2321 1944 XXIII 0 0 0 0 1 1,406 0 0 0 0 Surrendered 9 May 1945 Operation...
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Uboat. Retrieved 29 April 2012. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (Y) "HMS Ebor Wyke (FY 1601)". Uboat. Retrieved 25 April 2012. Sawyer & Mitchell 1985...
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class K class HMS K1 HMS K2 HMS K3 HMS K4 HMS K5 HMS K6 HMS K7 HMS K8 HMS K9 HMS K10 HMS K11 HMS K12 HMS K13 HMS K14 HMS K15 HMS K16 HMS K17 HMS K26 L class...
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meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through outer space. A meteorite is a rock that has fallen from space to the Earth's surface. Meteor may...
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the world's first such national institution. February 27 – The Ortenau meteorite lands in Germany. October 25 – Italian-born French astronomer Giovanni...
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Tigre Hotel, a former hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina El Tigre, a 1993 meteorite fall in Mexico All pages with titles containing tigre All pages with titles...
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site of a meteorite that impacted on Antarctica millions of years ago and finds strange Rapa Nui-like statues alongside the grave of one of HMS Beagle's...
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Arlberg-Kandahar, annual alpine skiing event HMS Kandahar (F28), a Royal Navy destroyer 1939–41 Kandahar, a meteorite fall in 1959 Kandahar, a ski run in...
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Antarctica (redirect from Antarctic meteorites)
dark stone meteorites stand out in a landscape of ice and snow, and the flow of ice accumulates them in certain areas. The Adelie Land meteorite, discovered...
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Ball lightning (section HMS Montague)
forming charged plasmas as opposed to burning completely or impacting as meteorites could explain some instances of the phenomena, in addition to other unknown...
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expedition in 1894, he was the first Western explorer to reach the Cape York meteorite and its fragments, which were then taken from the native Inuit population...
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