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16th Space Control Squadron The United States Air Force ' s 16th Space Control Squadron is an Air Force Space Command unit located at Peterson AFB , Colorado and assigned to the 21st Space Wing . The 16th SPCS operates the Rapid Attack Identification Detection Reporting System ( RAIDRS ) . Mission . The 16th SPCS is AFSPC ' s first defensive counterspace unit . The unit is responsible for operating space control capabilities to rapidly achieve flexible and versatile space superiority in support of theater campaigns and USSTRATCOM ' s Space Superiority mission . History . 16th SPCS was activated in November 1966 as the 16th Surveillance Squadron , Shemya AFS , Alaska , under Air Defense Command . The unit mission was to operate the Cobra Dane long - range early warning radar system , used to track Soviet missile launches . It was assigned to the 73d Aerospace Surveillance Wing in January 1967 and then to the 14th Aerospace Force in April 1971 . The unit was again reassigned in 1983 , this time to the 1st Space Wing as one of the original squadrons in the newly established Air Force Space Command . In 1991 , it was assigned to the 73d Space Group . In 1992 , the unit was designated the 16th Space Surveillance Squadron . The unit was inactivated in 1993 . The unit was reactivated at Peterson AFB in May 2007 under the 21st Space Wing to operate the RAIDRS defensive counter space system . Since mid - 2005 , Operation SILENT SENTRY , operating the predecessor to RAIDRS , called the Satellite Interference Response System ( SIRS ) has been continually deployed to the Middle East . Since January 2007 , operators from the 16 SCS have provided manpower for the mission .
German submarine U - 361 German submarine " U - 361 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . She carried out three patrols . She did not sink or damage any ships . She was a member of six wolfpack s . She was sunk by a British aircraft west of Narvik in July 1944 . Service history . The submarine was laid down on 12 September 1941 at the " Flensburger Schiffsbau " - Ges yard at Flensburg as ' werk ' 480 , launched on 9 September 1942 and commissioned on 18 December under the command of " Kapitänleutnant " Hans Seidel . She served with the 8th U - boat Flotilla from 18 December 1943 and the 11th flotilla from 1 March 1944 . 1st patrol . " U - 359 " s first patrol took her from Kiel in Germany to Narvik in Norway . 2nd patrol . Her second foray was toward Bear Island in the Barents Sea , then into the Norwegian Sea . 3rd patrol and loss . " U - 361 " left Narvik for the last time on 27 June 1944 . On 17 July , she was sunk by depth charge s dropped by a British Catalina flying boat of No . 210 Squadron RAF . The pilot , Flying Officer John Cruickshank was awarded the Victoria Cross . 52 men died in the U - boat ; there were no survivors . Previously recorded fate . " U - 361 " was originally noted as sunk on 17 July 1944 by a British B - 24 Liberator of 86 Squadron . This attack sank " U - 347 " .
French corvette Vésuve ( 1795 ) Vésuve was an 18 - gun " Etna " - class corvette of the French Navy , launched in 1795 . She was decommissioned in 1815 and broken up in 1830 . Career . At the Action of 30 May 1798 " Vésuve " and the French frigate " Confiante " battled the frigate , the bomb vessel , and the cutter . " Confiante " and " Vésuve " ran aground . The British were able to destroy " Confiante " but they were unable to reach " Vésuve " , which was later refloated . " Vésuve " served at Le Havre under " lieutenant de vaisseau " Rousseau between 15 nivôse and 23 prairial An XI ( 5 January to 12 June 1801 ) . By 1 February 1812 , she served at Cherbourg under " lieutenant de vaisseau " Le Chosel . On 17 March , she crossed from Le Havre to Cherbourg . From 1 September to 6 October 1813 , she served under " lieutenant de vaisseau " Valette in Cherbourg . In 1814 , after the Bourbon Restoration , " Vésuve " was sent with the 74 - gun " Lys " and the frigate " Érigone " to retake possession of Martinique . " Vésuve " was commanded by " lieutenant de vaisseau " Burgues de Missiessy , who was promoted to " captaine de frégate " during the cruise . The squadron arrived at Fort Royal on 5 October 1814 . " Vésuve " departed Fort - de - France on 7 April 1815 and arrived at Rochefort on 8 August . On 31 July 1815 , " Vésuve " was decommissioned and hulked in Rochefort . She was broken up in 1830 .
Arthur Farquhar ( 1772 – 1843 ) Sir Arthur Farquhar KCH , CB , RSO ( 1772 – 2 October 1843 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy . He served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Farquhar was a younger son of Robert Farquhar of Newhall , Kincardineshire . He entered the navy in 1787 on board , and , after serving in several other ships , mostly on the home station , and having passed his examination , entered on board an East India Company ' s ship . He had scarcely , however , arrived in India when news of the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars led him to enter on board the sloop , whence he was removed to the flagship , and in April 1798 was promoted to be lieutenant . On his return to England as first lieutenant of , he was employed in various ships on the home , Mediterranean , Baltic , and North Sea stations , until promoted to be commander on 29 April 1802 . In January 1804 he was appointed to the bomb vessel , and on 4 February 1805 being , in company with the sloop , in charge of convoy , was captured by two large French frigates , " Incorruptible " and " Hortense " , after a defence that was rightly pronounced by the court - martial ( 28 March 1805 ) to be ‘ highly meritorious and deserving imitation ’ . Farquhar was most honourably acquitted , and the president of the court , Sir Richard Bickerton , as he returned his sword , expressed a hope that he might soon be called on to serve in a ship in which he might meet his captor on more equal terms : ‘ the result of the contest , ’ he added , ‘ may be more lucrative to you , but it cannot be more honourable . ’ A few days later , 8 April , Farquhar was advanced to post - rank ; he afterwards was presented with a sword , value 100l . , by the Patriotic Fund , and by the merchants of Malta with a piece of plate and complimentary letter , 19 September 1808 . From 1806 to 1809 he commanded the 20 - gun in the Baltic and North Sea , during which time he captured several privateer s , French and Danish . From 1809 to 1814 he commanded the frigate in the North Sea , captured many privateers , gunboats , and armed vessels , and was senior naval officer in the operations in the Weser , the Ems , and the Elbe in 1813 , culminating in the capture of Glückstadt on 5 January 1814 . For these important services Farquhar was made a knight of the Sword of Sweden , and also of the Royal Guelphic Order . In 1815 he was made a Companion of the Bath , and in September 1817 received the freedom of Aberdeen . From May 1814 to April 1816 he commanded the 40 - gun at the Cape of Good Hope , and from 1830 to 1833 in the West Indies , with a broad pennant , and for his services there during the Baptist War , received a vote of thanks from the House of Assembly of Jamaica , a sword valued at 150l . , and a piece of plate from the merchants . On his return home he was knighted , and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1832 . He became a rear - admiral in 1837 , and died at his residence in Aberdeenshire on 2 October 1843 .
USS Portsmouth ( 1798 ) USS " Portsmouth " was constructed for the United States Navy in 1798 by master shipbuilder James Hackett to a design of Josiah Fox at what is now Badger ' s Island in Kittery , Maine , directly across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth , New Hampshire . She was built with funds contributed by the citizens of Portsmouth . Commanded by Captain Daniel McNeil , " Portsmouth " operated in the West Indies during the Quasi - War with France in the squadron commanded by Commodore John Barry . In 1800 , she sailed to France to bring back the United States envoys who had concluded peace negotiations with France . After a second cruise in the Caribbean , " Portsmouth " was sold at Baltimore , Maryland , in 1801 .
Battle of Kepaniwai The Battle of Kepaniwai ( " Battle of the Dammed Waters of Īao " or Kauwaupali , " Battle of the Clawed Cliffs " ) was fought in 1790 between Hawaii Island and Maui . The forces of Hawaii were led by Kamehameha I , while the forces of Maui were led by Kalanikūpule . It is known as one of the most bitter battles fought in Hawaiian history . While Maui ' s king Kahekili II was on Oahu , Kamehameha ' s war fleet landed in Kahului a few kilometers from the base of Īao Valley . An army consisting of around twelve hundred skilled warriors led by Kamehameha and Kekuhaupio , advanced on Kahekili ' s son Kalanikūpule and other Maui chiefs blocking the Īao valley . The two armies were evenly matched and neither side broke after two days of fighting . On the third day Kamehameha ' s army was helped by the use of two cannon s ( named " Lopaka " and " Kalola " ) operated by John Young and Isaac Davis , two of Kamehameha ' s royal advisors . Although none of Maui ' s major chiefs were killed , many people died resulting in the " damming of the waters " by the corpses floating in the river . It was said that the river " ran red with the blood of the dead . " Chiefess Kalola and her granddaughter Keōpūolani were able to escape west through the valley to Olowalu and north to Lahaina . After the battle , Kalola offered her 11 - year - old granddaughter to Kamehameha as a future wife . Meanwhile , Keōua Kuahuula , the last independent chief on the Island of Hawaii , who had been raiding Kamehameha ' s territory , quickly returned to the Big Island . This resulted in the 1790 battles of East Hawaii and the 1791 battle of Kawaihae . Kahekili II resumed his rule of Maui and also acquired cannon . In 1791 , Kahekili tried to invade the island of Hawaii , but was defeated in a naval battle called Kepuwahaulaula . Kamehameha had to wait for the civil war that broke out in 1793 after the death of Kahekili II , and the battle of Nu ' uanu to finally win control of Maui .
Action of 8 January 1780 The Action of 8 January 1780 was a naval encounter off Cape Finisterre between a British Royal Naval fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney , and a fleet of Spanish merchants sailing in convoy with seven warships of the Caracas Company , under the command of Commodore Don Juan Augustin de Yardi . During the action the entire Spanish convoy was captured . Rodney ' s fleet was en route to relieve Gibraltar , and this action took place several days before Rodney ' s engagement and defeat of a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St . Vincent . Background . One of Spain ' s principal goals upon its entry into the American Revolutionary War in 1779 was the recovery of Gibraltar , which had been lost to England in 1704 . The Spanish consequently planned to retake Gibraltar by blockading and starving out its garrison , which included troops from Britain and the Electorate of Hanover . The siege formally began in June 1779 , with the Spanish establishing a land blockade around The Rock . The matching naval blockade was comparatively weak , and the British discovered that small fast ships could evade the blockaders , while slower and larger supply ships generally could not . By late 1779 , however , supplies in Gibraltar had become seriously depleted , and General George Eliott appealed to London for relief . A supply convoy was organized , and in late December 1779 a large fleet sailed from England under the command of Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney . Although Rodney ' s final destination was the West Indies , he had secret instructions to first resupply Gibraltar and Minorca . Action . On 4 January Rodney parted with the ship of the line under Sir John Hamilton , and the frigates , and under Captains Hyde Parker , H . Bryne and William Dickson respectively , to escort the West Indies - bound merchants . The following day Rodney encountered a Spanish convoy consisting of 22 ships , bound from San Sebastián to Cádiz . He closed on them , the copper sheathing on some of his ships allowing them to outsail the Spanish . The whole convoy was captured , except for one merchant vessel . Vessels which had been carrying naval stores to the Spanish fleet at Cádiz , and baled goods for the Royal Caracas Company were sent back to England , escorted by and . Rodney took those Spanish ships that were found to be carrying provisions useful to Gibraltar to relieve the British forces there . In addition Rodney commissioned and manned the captured Spanish flagship , the 64 - gun " Guipuzcoana " , naming her , in honour of Prince William , who was present at the engagement . Rodney remarked in his despatches to the Admiralty that the loss of the ships " must greatly distress the enemy , who I am well informed are in much want of provisions and naval stores " . Several days later Rodney engaged and defeated a Spanish fleet under Don Juan de Lángara at the Battle of Cape St Vincent , on 16 January 1780 , before going on to relieve Gibraltar and Minorca . Ships involved . The order of battle is as reported by Beatson .
24th Brigade Royal Field Artillery XXIV Brigade , Royal Field Artillery was a brigade of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War . It was originally formed with 110th , 111th and 112th Batteries , and attached to 6th Infantry Division . In August 1914 it mobilised and in September was sent to the Continent with the British Expeditionary Force , where it saw service with 6th Division throughout the war . 43rd ( Howitzer ) Battery joined the brigade in May 1916 .
Thomas Evans ( British Army officer ) Lieutenant General Thomas Evans CB ( 9 March 1776 – 11 February 1863 ) was a British Army officer . Military career . Born the son of a Wolverhampton Inn Keeper , Evans lost both his parents by the age of 16 he embarked on a career as a soldier . He served in the British Army from 1793 to 1838 , fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars . As a major and aide - de - camp to Major General Isaac Brock , he served in Canada in the War of 1812 against the United States , Evans was wounded at the Battle of Sackett ' s Harbor in New York . He married Harriet Lawrence Ogden on 12 Mar 1810 in Montreal . The Ogdens were a prominent loyalist family in Canada . Harriet ' s siblings include Peter Skene Ogden and Charles Richard Ogden . After 1827 he held important posts in Ireland , Gibraltar and Malta . He later retired to Canada .
John Kennedy ( Medal of Honor ) John Kennedy ( May 14 , 1834 – September 28 , 1910 ) was born a British subject in Ireland , and became an American citizen and a private in the Union Army . He received the United States militaries highest decoration for bravery , the Medal of Honor , for his actions during the Battle of Trevilian Station in the American Civil War . Biography . He was born May 14 , 1834 and at the Battle of Trevilian Station in Virginia on June 11 , 1864 , he and four other soldiers were assigned to a twelve - pound - capacity brass artillery piece under direct command of Lt . William Egan , as part of the battery commanded by Lt . Alexander Pennington , within Gen . George Armstrong Custer ' s Michigan Cavalry Brigade . A squadron of cavalry led by Confederate Capt . Daniel A . Grimsley attacked their position , and a retreat was ordered . Kennedy and Pvt . Charles O ' Neil remained at the cannon to cover the retreat of the rest of their unit , at some point becoming cut off from retreating themselves . They exhausted first their grape shot and canister shot , then their rifle and then pistol ammunition , finally being captured while continuing resistance with handspike s and sponge staff s . ( Their position and the cannon were shortly recaptured in a Union artillery and cavalry counter - attack . ) The captured privates were imprisoned at the Andersonville prison ; Kennedy survived , and served after the war in the Regular Army , advancing to the rank of ordnance sergeant and retiring in 1891 . He was nominated for the Medal of Honor in 1892 by Lt . Carle E . Woodruff , and this was endorsed by Pennington , at that point a major . He died September 28 , 1910 and is buried in Oakland Cemetery Little Rock , Arkansas . His grave can be found in the Willow lot 298 . Medal of Honor citation . His Medal of Honor citation in 1983 described his actions as Remained at his gun , resisting with its implements the advancing cavalry , and thus secured the retreat of his detachment .
HMS Terrible ( 1845 ) HMS " Terrible " was when designed the largest steam - powered wooden paddle wheel frigate built for the Royal Navy . She was designed by Oliver Lang and laid down at HMNB Devonport under the name HMS " Simoom " , but was renamed on 23 December 1842 , and launched on 6 February 1845 . With three masts and four funnels in two widely - spaced pairs , she had a unique appearance among ships of this type . " Terrible " was commissioned on 5 December 1845 under the command of Captain William Ramsay and was first attached to the Channel Fleet . In 1847 she was sent to Portuguese Angola to transport the Portuguese exiles under the leadership of the Count of Bonfim back to Lisbon , as stipulated by the Convention of Gramido . Subsequently she served in the Mediterranean . On 6 November 1853 , commanded by Captain James Johnstone McCleverty , she left England carrying Rear - Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons , who had been appointed second - in - command of the Mediterranean Fleet . " Terrible " then joined Admiral James Dundas ' s fleet in the Black Sea , where she served during the Crimean War . On 7 October 1854 she landed some of her 68 - pounder gun s at Balaclava to be used in the siege of Sevastopol . At the naval bombardment of Sevastopol on 17 October " Terrible " was the northernmost ship of the Allied line and successfully bombarded Fort Constantine , the northern fortress protecting Sevastopol harbour . In 1866 , commanded by Captain John Commerell , she helped the to lay the fifth ( and first successful ) Atlantic cable . In 1869 she was one of three ships employed to move the specially built ' Bermuda ' Dry Dock across the Atlantic from Madeira to Ireland Island , Bermuda . The dock was towed by HMS " Warrior " and HMS " Black Prince " with " Terrible " lashed astern to act as a rudder , the voyage lasting 39 days . She was broken up in 1879 . See also . < br > < br > < br >
Aurelianus ( consul 400 ) Aurelianus ( " floruit " 393 - 416 ) , also known as Aurelian , was a prominent politician of the Eastern Roman Empire . Biography . Aurelianus was the son of the Consul of 361 , Taurus , and brother of Caesarius ; he had a son called Taurus , Consul in 428 . Aurelianus was a Christian , and erected a church to protomartyr Stephen . Aurelianus was " Praefectus urbi " of Constantinople between 393 and 394 . When the Gothic " Magister militum " Gainas obtained by Emperor Arcadius the supreme power and the removal of all his opponents in the court , he knew he needed a man of his in Constantinople ; discarded all those who had been supporters of his enemy Eutropius , he chose Aurelianus , and had him elevated to the rank of Praetorian prefect of the East ( August 399 ) , replacing Eutychianus , Eutropius ' choice . Aurelianus , therefore , became the most powerful civilian official of the court of Arcadius , and was involved in the trial against Eutropius , which started at Chalcedon in September of that year , and his execution . He was appointed consul for the year 400 , but his colleague in the West , the " magister militum " Stilicho , did not recognize him in an act of open confrontation with the Eastern court and particularly with Gainas . He was still Prefect at the beginning of 400 , when he received the order to confiscate the properties of Eutropius and destroy his statues . In mid - April 400 , Gainas , who had rebelled with his Goths , went to Constantinople , where he forced Arcadius to hand him Aurelianus and Saturninus ; Aurelian was deposed and into exile ( although his properties were not confiscated ) and the East was left without a consul . After the defeat of the Goths at Constantinople ( July 12 400 ) , Aurelianus made a triumphant return to the capital , although he did not get back his consular title . It was an important figure in the Senate until late in life , so that the Senate dedicated him a statue in gold ; it is known from the laws sent to him and preserved in the " Theodosian Code " that he was Praetorian prefect of the East a second time between the 414 and 416 . Aurelianus in literature . The character of Osiris in the work " Aegyptus sive de providentia " by Synesius has been identified with Aurelianus ; in this work Osiris is opposed to Typhon , representing Caesarius or Eutychianus , while Horus should represent Taurus . Synesius was an aristocrat and an African writer , who had gone to Constantinople to an embassy , during which he met Aurelianus .
Fokker V . 27 The Fokker V . 27 was a German parasol - monoplane fighter prototype designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker - Flugzeugwerke . The V . 27 was little more than an enlarged V . 26 ( prototype for the D . VIII ) with a 145 kW ( 195 hp ) Benz Bz . IIIb liquid - cooled inline engine . Once again , Fokker pursued similar aircraft with both rotary and inline engines . Fokker submitted the V . 27 at the second fighter competition at Adlershof in May / June 1918 . The V . 37 was a ground - attack variant of the V . 27 . It was fitted with extensive armor plating to protect the pilot and engine . Neither the V . 27 nor the V . 37 were placed in production .
No . 15 Squadron RNZAF 15 Squadron RNZAF formed 1 June 1942 at Whenuapai , Auckland under Squadron Leader A . Crighton . It served in Tonga , Guadalcanal , New Georgia , Espiritu Santo , Bougainville and Green Island . The squadron was equipped with Kittyhawk and , later , F4U Corsair fighters . Re - equipment with the P - 51 Mustang was abandoned at the cessation of hostilities . The Squadron was disbanded in November 1945 . No . 15 Squadron flew more sorties than any other New Zealand Fighter Squadron in the Pacific theatre of World War II . The Commonwealth ' s leading ace in the Pacific , Geoff Fisken , scored approximately half his victories with the squadron , mostly flying P40 " Wairarapa Wildcat " . History . 15 Squadron was deployed to Kukum Field on Guadalcanal in April 1943 . The Squadron was deployed to Green Island from February – April 1945 .