* 1945 – More than 7, 000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

* Elbing class torpedo boat in the German Kriegsmarine during World War II

SMS Lübeck was the first German cruiser to be fitted with turbine engines, which were also trialled in torpedo boat S-125.

The German aircrews were not trained or equipped to attack fast moving naval targets, particularly agile naval destroyers or motor torpedo boats ( MTBs ).

German torpedo, 1900

The United States had an electric design, the Mark 18, largely copied from the German torpedo ( although with improved batteries ), as well as FIDO, an air-dropped acoustic homing torpedo for anti-submarine use.

The French, Italian, Japanese and German Navies developed torpedo boats around that displacement, 70 to 100 m long, armed with two or three guns of around 100 mm ( 4 in ) and torpedo launchers.

This class of German boats could be highly effective, as in the action in which the British cruiser HMS Charybdis was sunk off Brittany by a torpedo salvo launched by the Elbing-class torpedo boats T23 and T27.

A classic fast torpedo boat action was the Channel Dash in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs.

With only Hirsch and Wentz able to read German, they struggle with interpreting the controls and then fire a salvo of torpedoes, destroying the enemy U-Boat, draining the last of the sub's batteries and spending all but the last torpedo, loaded in the malfunctioning aft torpedo tube.

* February 3 – WWII: The Four Chaplains of the U. S. Army are drowned, when their ship ( USAT Dorchester ) is struck by a German torpedo.

* August 18 – The Bolshevik fleet at Kronstadt, near Petrograd, Russia, on the Baltic Sea, is mostly destroyed by German warplanes and torpedo boats in a combined operation.

* G7a / T1, a WWII German standard issue torpedo

World War II began for the Royal Norwegian Navy on April 8, 1940, when the German torpedo boat Albatross attacked the guard ship KNM Pol III.

The artillery pieces inflicted heavy damage on the German heavy cruiser Blücher, which was subsequently sunk by torpedoes fired from Oscarsborg's land based torpedo battery.

In 2004, German weapons manufacturer Diehl BGT Defence announced their own supercavitating torpedo, Barracuda, now officially named " Superkavitierender Unterwasserlaufkörper " or " supercavitating underwater running body "

* G7e / T4, a Falke German torpedo

( The Paul was sunk by a German torpedo in 1942 while sailing from the Bahamas.

Rear Torpedo tube of a former German Jaguar class fast attack craft | Jaguar class Schnellboot ( motor torpedo boat | MTB )

He published " American Neutrality, Its Cause and Cure " ( 1916 ) for the purpose, and when in 1916 he survived a German torpedo attack on the " Sussex " in the English channel-on the return trip from a visit to William Osler at Oxford-his open telegram to the President of the United States on the affair became frontpage news ( New York Times ).

* 1895-The Imperial German Navy mobilizes the provisional auxiliary cruiser Normannia for a 15-day trial armed with eight 6 in guns, two guns, six guns, and two torpedo boats.

As more and more Jewish musicians lost their jobs with professional organizations Steinberg united them into the Frankfurt Kulturbund Orchestra, which also gave guest performances in other German cities.

Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

The dream of a descent into the gardens of the south always drew German ambitions toward Rome and Sicily.

Then they moved offices of the East German puppet government into East Berlin and began illegally to treat it as the capital of East Germany.

A German informant gave me a sure cure made by combining rye flour and molasses into a poultice.

Seventeen years ago today, German scientist Willy Fiedler climbed into a makeshift cockpit installed in a V-1 rocket-bomb that was attached to the underbelly of a Heinkel bomber.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

In the German Evangelical Church the German title of Abt ( abbot ) is sometimes bestowed, like the French abbé, as an honorary distinction, and survives to designate the heads of some monasteries converted at the Reformation into collegiate foundations.

First mentioned by the Romans in 213, the Alamanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

In this mission Ealdred was somewhat successful and obtained insight into the working of the German church during a stay of a year with Hermann II, the Archbishop of Cologne.

He also was impressed with the buildings he saw, and later incorporated some of the German styles into his own constructions.

The book went through many editions, was reprinted in the United States and translated into German and other languages.

When Valdemar returned to Denmark, he was convinced into strengthening the Danevirke fortifications at the German border, with the support of Absalon.

The Suebian language developed into Old High German, while the Angles and Jutes were among the speakers of Old Saxon.

While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.

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Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

: This work started out as his Ph. D. thesis in German, which he later expanded and translated into English.

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

During World War II, Bonn acquired military significance because of its strategic location on the Rhine River, which formed a natural barrier to easy penetration into the German heartland from the west.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).