The Slavery Abolition Act was in 1833 not 1807, which is what i meant..
Regarding the Q-ships, i am sure you read my treatise :03:

Aktung has got your six, and he's on mine :haha: :salute:

Well, that was my old sig!:O:

Fair winds Matey :salute:

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms (later renamed the Home Guard).

1940 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland.

1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president.

1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1943 Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders.

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for sale.

L'Étoile du Nord! official motto: "Star of the North"
 

1858: Minnesota, the Land of Sky Blue Waters, enters the Union as the 32nd state. Minnesota supported the Union in the Civil War and supplied large quantities of wheat to the Northern armies. Originally settled by migrants of British, German, and Irish extraction, Minnesota saw a major influx of Scandinavian immigrants during the 19th century. Minnesota’s “Twin Cities”–Minneapolis and St. Paul–grew out of Fort Snelling, the center of early U.S. settlement. HER iron ore from the the Cuyuna, the Vermilion, and the Mesabi ranges would help forge the industrial giant America. A fact not lost on China today; the reopened and expanded mines ship through the greatest port in the world: Duluth :Dhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...luth_canal.jpgr https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nesota.svg.pnghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota A must-stop for all true Subsimmers at Austin, Minnesota:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...an_Central.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...2006-05-20.JPG Refreshments R on me of course! http://twinstrivia.com/wp-content/up...amms-bear2.jpg

Did you know the Z3 is not the latest sports car by BMW...?

In Berlin they are celebrating today Konrad Zuse's completion of the Z3 75 years ago. In 1941, this machine represented what today is acknowledge to be the first digital Turing machine there ever has been, a machine the size of a house and with an inner life looking like a refrigerator.

Zuse's son today said on regional Berlin TV station RBB he has calculated how many Z3s it would take to calculate the change from one page to the next on a modern smart phone via finger tip's wiping. The answer is a whopping "around 20 thousand Z3s".

And they are celebrating that machine...? :88)

:woot:

The Nazis used it for calculating wing fluttering in aircraft design. The installation was destroyed during an Allied bombing raid just two years later.

Without it we would not be here and talking/typing as if sitting at the same table.

Re english "Q-Ships" vs. german auxiliary cruisers ("Raiders") and differences, there's a lot of interesting stuff to find about e.g. The "Möwe" or Felix Graf Luckner, on the 'net.
Ripping yarn: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8Vpl8...&feature=share

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1937 Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey.

1940 Nazi blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River.

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz.

1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces.

1984 South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years.

2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

YUP bad link there; this'll tide U over:O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckner RULE one: Never turn a Freemason loose on the seas in three masted windjammer:arrgh!: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...adlerFront.PNG Not to be outdone by Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien and the SMS Möwe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_M%C3%B6wehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...CI0122_S_k.JPG 58 vessels including a battle ship, HMS King Edward VII (mine)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...early_1907.jpg between the two of them!:salute:

Strange.. the titel of the film is: "Audacity & Gold Bars - The First Voyage Of The SMS Möve I THE GREAT WAR Special", and i found it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vpl8Hz1RDo
Does it work now?

film records of the "Moewe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkiz5S97024


About Wolf and Woelfchen, another raider and its aircraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGitWsDoWM

Yep, working now and quite an interesting/gallant career (many of the details I did not know until watching the above).

Rather interestingly (to a Brit anyway) I notice she was more or less bottled up (taken out of service) like many other ships in the Kreigsmarine of the day and suffered a similar fate, albeit in the next great war.

1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.

1913 1st four-engined aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia).

1940 Winston Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat.

1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.

2014 Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa María, is discovered off the northern coast of Haiti.