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French frigate Melpomène ( 1812 ) The Melpomène was a 44 - gun frigate of the French Navy , designed by Sané . She was launched in 1812 ; in 1815 the Royal Navy captured and scuttled her . Career . " Melpomène " was commissioned on 1 June 1812 in Toulon under Commander Charles Béville . She took part in the Action of 5 November 1813 , where she sustained light damage and had one wounded . She was decommissioned on 21 February 1814 , but reactivated in January 1815 under Captain Joseph Collet , at Toulon . On 24 April , during the Hundred Days , she was sent to Napoli to transport Letizia Ramolino . Six days later , at 6a . m . on the 30th , she encountered the 74 - gun HMS " Rivoli " off Ischia , commanded by Captain Edward Stirling Dickson . After a 35 - minute fight , " Melpomène " struck to the ship of the line , and was scuttled . In May , the frigate " Dryade " brought Ramolino to France , along with Prince Jérôme Bonaparte .
German submarine U - 541 German submarine " U - 541 " was a Type IXC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . She was laid down at the " Deutsche Werft " ( yard ) in Hamburg as ' werk ' 362 on 5 May 1942 , launched on 5 January 1943 and commissioned on 24 March with " Kapitänleutnant " Kurt Petersen in command . " U - 541 " began her service career with training as part of the 4th U - boat Flotilla from 24 March 1943 . She was re - assigned to the 10th flotilla for operations on 1 November , then the 33rd flotilla on 1 November 1944 . She carried out four patrols and sank one ship . She was a member of four wolfpack s . She surrendered in May 1945 at Gibraltar and was transferred to Lisahally in Northern Ireland for Operation " Deadlight " . She was sunk in January 1946 . Operational career . 1st patrol . " U - 541 " s first patrol began with her departure from Kiel on 4 November 1943 . She passed through the ' gap ' separating Iceland and the Faroe Islands before heading out into the Atlantic Ocean . She entered Lorient , on the French Atlantic coast , on 9 January 1944 . 2nd and 3rd patrols . For her second foray , " U - 541 " headed toward the eastern seaboard of North America . On her third sortie , she sank the " Livingston " northeast of Louisburg , Nova Scotia . < br > The boat was preparing to attack a convoy while on the surface in the Gulf of St . Lawrence when HMCS " Norsyd " opened fire ; " U - 541 " was forced to dive . She was then hunted for two days by four frigates , a minesweeper and aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) , but escaped . 4th patrol . Her last patrol began in Horten in Norway on 7 April 1945 . It ended with her surrender in Gibraltar on 12 May . Fate . " U - 541 " was transferred to Lisahally in Northern Ireland for Operation " Deadlight " . She was sunk on 5 January 1946 at 55 . 38N 07 . 35W .
USS Jekyl ( AG - 135 ) USS " Jekyl " ( AG - 135 / AKL - 6 ) was a " Camano " - class cargo ship constructed for the U . S . Army as USA " FS - 282 " shortly before the end of World War II and later acquired by the U . S . Navy in 1947 . She was configured as a transport and cargo ship and was assigned post - war to support various island outposts in the Pacific Ocean . Built on Long Island , New York . " Jekyl " ( AG - 135 ) was built in 1944 by Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp . , Long Island , New York , for the U . S . Army and served as USAT " F8 - 282 " until being transferred to the Navy at Guam 22 February 1947 . She was converted to Navy use and commissioned at Guam 2 May 1947 , Lt . F . E . Richards in command . Post - war Pacific Ocean support . One of a group of small Army cargo ships transferred to the Navy for use among the Pacific Ocean islands , " Jekyl " carried ammunition , food , and supplies to various island bases and outposts . She operated mainly from Kwajalein Atoll , and steamed through the Mariana Islands and the Caroline Islands to Pearl Harbor in support of occupation forces . The ship also transported officials of the civil governments and helped carry native products as America began to restore normal life to the ravaged Pacific . On 31 March 1949 she was reclassified AKL - 6 . Post - war decommissioning . The ship was relieved of her duties in December 1949 and arrived Pearl Harbor on the 15th . From there she steamed to Seattle , Washington , where she decommissioned 12 April 1950 , and was placed in reserve at Astoria , Oregon . " Jekyl " was sold 18 May 1960 and scrapped .
130 K 90 - 60 The 130 K 90 - 60 is a Finnish towed 130 mm coastal artillery piece , manufactured in the 1980s by Vammas . History . The development process for the 130 K 90 - 60 began in 1960 when the Finnish company Tampella presented their concept of a new 122 mm gun for the Finnish Army . This gun was called 122 K 60 . It was a sound concept , but quite a heavy gun . It was only ordered in small numbers and it was never part of the war - time inventory . 15 guns were later modified by Vammas in the late 1980s , giving it a 130 mm calibre barrel . This was done in order to standardize the calibre for the mobile coastal artillery . The new gun was given the designation 130 K 90 - 60 . The gun carriage design was used for Tampella ' s 155 mm series , as well as for the Israeli Soltam M - 68 gun .
USS Hydrangea ( 1862 ) USS " Hydrangea " ( 1862 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She served the Navy in various ways : as a tugboat , a dispatch boat , a ship ' s tender , and as a gunboat in waterways of the Confederate States of America . Built at Buffalo , New York , in 1862 . " Hydrangea " , a wooden steam tug , was built as " Hippodame " in 1862 at Buffalo , New York , and purchased by the Navy at New York City , from her owner , C . TV . Copeland , 16 October 1863 . She commissioned at New York Navy Yard 18 April 1864 , Ens . C . W . Rogers in command . Assigned to the North Atlantic blockade . Reporting to Hampton Roads , Virginia , for duty with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron , Hydrangea spent May towing monitors and acting as tender to Onandaga . She then took up station in the James River , where she acted as a tug and mail boat . Making two trips a day from Deep Bottom , near the front lines , to the large supply base at City Point , Virginia , she helped support the Union efforts to break the military stalemate around Richmond , Virginia . Transferred to the South Atlantic blockade . " Hydrangea " was then transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron 23 July 1864 , and after repairing reported to Port Royal , South Carolina , 30 September . She was used as a blockading ship and tug inside the Charleston Bar until the end of the war . Post - war decommissioning , sale , and subsequent career . " Hydrangea " decommissioned at New York City 1 September 1865 , and was sold 25 October to S . and J . M . Flanagan . Redocumented " Norman " 4 January 1866 , she returned to private service and was stranded and lost off Cape May , New Jersey , 17 November 1886 .
Kent County Civil War Monument The Kent County Civil War Monument is an historic landmark at in Grand Rapids , Michigan . Plans for the monument were made , and fundraising started , before the end of the American Civil War . The monument was dedicated on September 17 , 1885 . As is was typical of many such monuments , the memorial was cast in zinc . Restoration . The monument was restored in 2003 .
Zhang Shaozeng Zhang Shaozeng ( Chinese : 張紹曾 , Wade – Giles Chang Shao - ts ' eng ) ( 1879 - March 21 , 1928 ) was a Beiyang Army general in charge of the 20th Division . Biography . He was born in Zhili province and graduated from a Japanese military academy in 1901 . He was a known radical who advocated constitutional monarchy and supported Wu Luzhen ' s mutiny during the Xinhai Revolution . He became the Progressive Party boss of Tianjin . In 1912 , he secured the loyalty of the Inner Mongolian tribes to Yuan Shikai . He broke with Yuan during the National Protection War and was one of the first to fight against Zhang Xun ' s attempt to restore the Qing dynasty in 1917 . He became affiliated with Cao Kun ' s Zhili clique and ruled Rehe . He and Wu Peifu advocated the return of the original National Assembly . He served as Li Yuanhong ' s premier in 1923 . He opposed Cao and Wu ' s plan to invade Guangdong to defeat Sun Yatsen ' s rival government , preferring to negotiate unification . His tenure as premier in the Beiyang government was marked by greed and self - glorification and he was forced to flee to the British legation in Tianjin after his resignation . In 1928 , he was assassinated by Zhang Zuolin after he was found to have contacts with the Guominjun and Kuomintang .
HMS Ardent ( 1841 ) HMS " Ardent " was a wooden " Alecto " - class paddle sloop , and the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to use the name . She was launched on 12 February 1841 at Chatham and spent much of her career on the West Coast of Africa engaged in anti - slavery operations . One of the ship ' s company , Gunner John Robarts , was awarded the Victoria Cross for the destruction of Russian food stores in the Crimean War . She was scrapped in 1865 . Design and construction . " Ardent " was ordered on 25 February 1839 as the third of a class of 5 third - class steam vessels . She was laid down in February 1840 , and on 15 August orders were received to hasten her building and to complete her as a packet . She was launched on 12 February 1841 . She was long on the gundeck and displaced 878 tons . Power for her paddles came from a Seaward & Capel 2 - cylinder direct - acting steam engine developing 200 nominal horsepower , which was fitted at Woolwich in February 1841 . Having conducted engine trials in the River Thames in April 1841 , she left Woolwich for Chatham to be fitted out . She was commissioned for the first time at Chatham on 16 September 1842 . Service history . She sailed for South America and the Cape station from Portsmouth on 1 October 1841 , touching at Madeira during her passage . In 1845 she transferred from the Brazilian station to the West Coast of Africa , where she was involved in the long campaign to put down the slave trade . On 25 March 1845 detained the Spanish slave brigantine " Dos Hermanos " off the Pongo River , which was condemned on 9 April 1845 by the Mixed British and Spanish Court at Sierra Leone . She returned to England in September 1845 . In 1848 she was serving in the Mediterranean , and saw active service during the Crimean War . On 29 May 1855 in the Sea of Azov , Crimea , Gunner Robarts of " Ardent " with two lieutenants ( Cecil William Buckley of " Miranda " and Hugh Talbot Burgoyne of " Swallow " ) volunteered to land on a beach where the Russian army were in strength . They were out of covering gunshot range of the ships offshore and met considerable enemy opposition , but managed to set fire to corn stores and ammunition dumps and destroy enemy equipment before embarking again . They were each awarded the Victoria Cross . She returned to Portsmouth on 5 February 1856 and sailed for the West Coast of Africa on 28 December 1857 for anti - slavery duties . The station was notorious for sickness , and during the year 1858 she reported 238 cases of sickness during the year ( from a ship ' s company numbering less than 150 ) , with 10 cases serious enough to require the individuals affected to be invalided home . She returned to the United Kingdom on March 1859 and by 1860 had returned to South America . Fate . " Ardent " was sold to Castle and arrived at Charlton for breaking on 2 March 1865 .
2d Combat Cargo Group The 2d Combat Cargo Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit . Its last duty station under this designation was at Yokota Air Base , Japan , where it was inactivated on 15 January 1946 . History . The 2d Combat Cargo Group was organized at Syracuse Army Air Base , New York , and trained with C - 46 and C - 47 aircraft . It moved to Baer Field , Indiana for overseas processing . Its operational squadron s were the 5th , 6th , 7th , and 8th Combat Cargo Squadrons . The group moved to the Southwest Pacific , arriving in November 1944 , and assigned to Fifth Air Force . It initially operated from Biak Island , Papua New Guinea to fly passengers and cargo to US bases in Australia , New Guinea , the Admiralties , and the Philippines . The group also dropped supplies to US and guerrilla forces in the Philippines . The group moved to Leyte in May 1945 . Maintaining its flights in the Southwest Pacific , it also transported personnel and supplies to the Ryukyus , and evacuated casualties on return flights . The 2d moved to Okinawa in August 1945 . While there it transported personnel and equipment of the occupation forces to Japan and ferried liberated prisoners of war back to the Philippines . The group moved to Japan in September 1945 and served with the occupation forces until it was inactivated on 15 January 1946 . It was disbanded on 8 October 1948 . The group was reconstituted on 31 July 1985 and redesignated as the 362d Military Airlift Group , It was not active under this designation , but was redesignated as the 362d Airlift Support Group and activated on 1 April 1992 at Rhein - Main Air Base , Germany . It was inactivated " circa " 1 July 1994 . It has since been converted to provisional status as the 362d Air Expeditionary Group and assigned to Air Mobility Command to activate as needed .
John Edye John Edye FRS ( 7 August 1789 – 1 March 1873 ) was the talented Chief Clerk in the Surveyor of the Navy ' s Office during the 19th century . He invented a new means of construction for wooden warships and produced the detail for the Surveyor William Symonds ' s many designs . Together he and Symonds created larger and larger wooden warships for the Royal Navy , which were able not only to defeat an enemy by weight of fire ( as the Navy had long been able to do ) but also to pursue them and force battle . Edye was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 February 1835 .
British L - class submarine The British L class submarine were originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E class submarine . The scale of change allowed the L class to become a separate class . The armament was increased when the 21 - inch torpedoes came into service . The Group 3 boats had two QF 4 - inch guns fore and aft of the lengthened conning tower . Also , 76 tons of fuel oil was carried in external wing tanks for the first time in British submarines . Several of the Group 1 boats were configured as minelayers including " L11 " and " L12 " . In the Group 2 boats , " L14 " , " L17 " and " L24 " to " L27 " were built as minelayers carrying 16 mines but without the two beam torpedo tubes . The introduction of the L class came too late to contribute significantly in World War I . was accidentally depth - charged by three American destroyer s in early 1918 . torpedoed the German submarine . torpedoed the German destroyer " S33 " in October 1918 but was sunk by accompanying destroyers . The L class served throughout the 1920s and the majority were scrapped in the 1930s but three remained operational as training boats during World War II . The last three were scrapped in 1946 after long distinguished service .
Charles L . Southward Charles L . Southward ( May 16 , 1912 – April 28 , 2000 ) was a United States Army Major General who served as Director of the Army National Guard and Commander of the District of Columbia National Guard . Early life . Charles Lutcher Southward was born in Richmond , Virginia on May 16 , 1912 . He graduated from John Marshall High School , joined the Virginia National Guard in 1930 , and attained the rank of First Sergeant before receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1935 . Between 1935 and 1940 Southward advanced to Captain , and he graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1939 . World War II . During World War II Southward served on the staff of Army Forces Pacific , South West Pacific Command as a member of the Logistics ( G4 ) section . During the war he was promoted twice , leaving active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel . Post World War II . After the war Southward pursued a full - time career with the federal government , serving as a Veterans ’ Counselor and Business Specialist with the United States Department of Commerce in Richmond . He continued his military service , and in the 1950s was Commander of the 176th Regimental Combat Team with the rank of Colonel . Southward graduated from the United States Army War College in 1954 . National Guard Bureau . In 1954 Southward was assigned to full - time duty at the National Guard Bureau , serving as head of the Policy and Liaison Office . In the early 1960s he served on the staff of the Continental Army Command . From 1964 to 1967 Southward was Chief of the Army Division , ( now Director of the Army National Guard ) , receiving promotion to Brigadier General . Southward was appointed Commander of the District of Columbia National Guard in 1967 and promoted to Major General . He served until retiring in 1974 . Awards and decorations . Southward ’ s awards included : Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster ; Legion of Merit ; Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster ; American Defense Service Medal ; American Campaign Medal ; Asiatic - Pacific Campaign Medal with service star ; World War II Victory Medal ; Army of Occupation Medal ( Japan ) , National Defense Service Medal with service star , Armed Forces Reserve Medal with gold hourglass ; Philippine Defense Medal ; Philippine Liberation Medal ; Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation ; Virginia National Guard Legion of Merit ; Alabama Commendation Medal ; and Mississippi Magnolia Medal . Death and burial . Southward died in Williamsburg , Virginia on April 28 , 2000 . He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery , Section 65 , Site 3264 . Legacy . The District of Columbia National Guard presents the annual Southward Leadership Award . The Southward Trophy is awarded to the outstanding Army and Air National Guard leaders in the organization .
Battle of Medina ( 1812 ) The Battle of Medina took place in 1812 . Following the events at AL - Safra , Tusun ' s forces begun to deal with rebel tribes around Medina while military supplies were moved to Yanbu from Egypt . Mohammed Ali Pasha sent Ahmet Aga with 10 , 000 men to help Tusun ' s forces to re - capture Medina , this army successfully took the city in November 1812 , killing about 600 Saudi fighters .
ServGru A ServGru or SERVGRU is standard United States Navy abbreviation or acronym for " Service Group . " A Service Group may contain a number of Service Squadrons or Service Divisions . The Commander of a Service Group is known , in official Navy communications , as COMSERVGRU ( followed by a number ) , such as COMSERVGRU THREE .
Dale E . Wolf Dale Edward Wolf ( born September 6 , 1924 ) is an American businessman and politician from Wilmington , in New Castle County , Delaware . He is veteran of World War II , and a member of the Republican Party , who served for three weeks as the 70th Governor of Delaware . Early life and family . Wolf was born at Kearney , Nebraska , the son of Harry and Irene Wolf . He graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln , Nebraska with a degree in agriculture . During World War II , he served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army , earning a Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart at the Battle of Okinawa . He married Clarice Elaine Marshall in 1945 and they have four children , Janet , Glenda , Thomas , and James . Professional and political career . After the war , Wolf received his Ph . D . in agriculture from Rutgers University and soon took a position with the agriculture research division of E . I . du Pont de Nemours and Company . He became the Chairman of the Board of DuPont ' s Pharmaceutical Business and Group Vice President of the Agriculture business . Meanwhile he was at various times Chairman of the National Agriculture Chemical Association ( NACA ) , Chairman of the International Agriculture Chemical Association ( GIFAP ) , and a member of the Board of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association ( PMA ) . He retired from DuPont in 1987 to accept an appointment from Governor Michael N . Castle as State Director of Development , responsible for the capital budget , housing for the poor , tourism and economic development . Lieutenant Governor of Delaware . Wolf was incumbent Governor Michael N . Castle ’ s choice for Lieutenant Governor in 1988 and won election , defeating Democrat Gary E . Hindes , a Wall Street investment executive from New Castle County . He served one term from January 20 , 1989 until December 31 , 1992 . Wolf chose not to run for Governor in 1992 against the formidable candidacy of Thomas R . Carper . However , when Governor Michael N . Castle resigned to take his new position in the United States House of Representatives , Wolf served as Governor the remaining 20 days of Castle ’ s second term . He is , to date , the last Republican governor of Delaware . Later career . Wolf later served as Chairman of Daynel International , a consultant group that assists companies interested in doing business in China . He lived in Guangzhou , China in 1995 , setting up an office for the law firm of Mezzullo - McCandlish , of which he is the Senior International Consultant . He was vice chairman of the board of directors of the Emerald BioAgriculture Corporation , an agriculture biotechnology company in Lansing , Michigan , and since 1998 , Vice Chairman of the WSFS Financial Corporation . He chaired the first Drug and Alcohol Abuse Coordinating Council for Delaware , and is the chairman of SURJ ( Stand Up for what ' s Right and Just ) , an organization dedicated to improve the criminal justice system in Delaware . Almanac . Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1 . The Governor and Lieutenant Governor take office the third Tuesday of January and each has a four - year term .
HMCS Ungava ( J149 ) HMCS " Ungava " ( J149 ) was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II . " Ungava " was laid down on 24 April 1940 at North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd . , North Vancouver and launched on 9 October 1940 . She was commissioned into the RCN on 5 September 1941 . The " Ungava " received battle honours for service in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St . Lawrence . She was decommissioned on 3 April 1946 .
Eduard Brunner ( officer ) Eduard Brunner ( 8 December 1918 – 13 May 2006 ) was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberstleutnant in the Bundeswehr . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Eduard Brunner joined the Bundeswehr in 1960 and retired in 1975 as an Oberstleutnant .