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HMS Brave (J305). HMS Brave (J305) was a steam turbine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The turbine-powered ships displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . The turbine group had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The ships had two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 20 May 1941 at the Blyth Shipbuilding Company at Northumberland, England. She was laid down on 23 April 1942 and launched on 4 February 1943. The ship was commissioned on 3 August 1943.

on 14 January 1944, she took part in the Operation Shingle until the 26th of the same month. On 16 June, the ship and her flotilla was deployed in advance of ships on passage to carry out Operation Brassard. In July, they were deployed in the joint minesweeping operations off Civitavecchia to clear a channel north of Cape Corso also known as Operation Lobster. In August, she took part in the Operation Dragoon.

On 14 July 1944, the ship took part in operation to clear a channel to Port of Leghorn with ships of the 19th and 13th Minesweeping Flotilla during Operation Lobster. In October, she was nominated for minesweeping service with her Flotilla in support of the Operation Manna.

The ship returned to the UK in May 1946 and was put into the reserve fleet.

In 1951, Brave was towed into the River Tyne to take over the duties as Drill Ship of the Tyne Division R.N.V.R. from HMS Melita. As a drill ship, she was given the name Satellite. The ship ran aground on the Black Middens on the North side of the river but was able to be towed out. The damage she sustained were too extensive to be repaired conventionally. Moreover, she had concrete poured at her lower hull during her conversion at the Tyne Dock, thus she had problems with her watertight integrity.

In 1957, she was sold to BISCO for scrap by the Clayton and Davies at Dunston in which she arrived on 25 November of the same year.

References

Bibliography

External links
 HMS Brave (J 305) at uboat.net

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in England
1943 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom
OPTSAT-3000. OPTSAT-3000 (OPTical SATellite-3000) is an Italian Earth observation and reconnaissance satellite developed and built by Israel Aerospace Industries and operated by the Italian Ministry of Defence. Launched on August 2, 2017, it has an expected service life of at least 7 years. It is based on the design of the TecSAR-1 satellite.

Design

Satellite bus 
OPTSAT-3000 is based upon the bus of the Israeli reconnaissance satellite TecSAR-1, but is modified for optical instruments. It has a launch mass of  and dimensions of  when its two solar arrays are deployed.

Imaging system 
OPTSAT-3000 has a high-resolution optical imaging system known as Jupiter, which is able to deliver panchromatic images with a resolution of  while operating the multispectral channel at the same time. These imaging detectors, combined with a  telescope from an altitude of almost , allows OPTSAT-3000 to cover a ground track  wide.

Launch 

OPTSAT-3000 launched from Guiana Space Centre ELV, French Guiana, on board a Vega rocket. It was launched to a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit with an apoapsis of , a periapsis of  and an inclination of 97.2°, allowing it to cover much of the world.

See also 
VENμS

References 

2017 in spaceflight
Spacecraft launched in 2017
Reconnaissance satellites
Earth observation satellites
Satellites of Italy
Israel Aerospace Industries satellites
Satellites in low Earth orbit
Tammam Raad. Tammam Raad () (born 1965) is a Syrian politician, the former Minister of Water Resources between 2020 and 2023.

Education and career

 2004-2005: Director of Homs branch to the Orontes basin, head of Planning and Studies
 2004-2011: Assistant director of Water Resources in Homs Governorate
 2011-2015: Manager of water resources at Homs
 2013: PhD in Civil Engineering, specialized in Engineering and Water Resources Management
 2015-2019: General manager of the General Company for Water and Engineering Studies
 2019-2020: General Director of the Public establishment for Land reclamation

Political career 
He was appointed Minister of Water Resources in the First Hussein Arnous government at its founding in August 2020. He was dismissed in December 2023.

Personal life
He got married with three children.

References 

1965 births
Living people
Water ministers of Syria
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians
21st-century Syrian politicians
Franz Ferdinand Schulze. Franz Ferdinand Schulze (17 January 1815 – 14 April 1873) was a German professor of chemistry and microbiology who taught at the Royal Prussian State Agricultural Academy in Eldena and later at Rostock. He innovated analytical techniques, particularly making use of specially blown glass tubes. He examined questions such as spontaneous generation in his experiments. He was able to demonstrate that when air was bubbled through sulfuric acid, the resulting air did not produce any growth in carefully sterilized culture media. He translated J. F. W. Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology (1841) into German. He coined the name of the wood component lignin in 1857.

Life and work 

Schulze was born in Naumburg, second son of a craftsman. An uncle took care of him from the age of ten, and he grew up in Meissen where he went to school. He returned to Naumburg where he passed his abitur in 1832 and then went to study in Leipzig. Here he took an interest in the natural sciences and listened to lectures in zoology at Berlin by Hinrich Lichtenstein. He received a doctorate with a dissertation on "De planariarum vivendi ratione et structura penitiore" following which he worked in Eilhard Mitscherlich's laboratory. He became a teacher of chemistry at the newly founded Agricultural Academy in Eldena in 1835 and habilitated in 1837 at the University of Greifswald. He wrote a textbook on agricultural chemistry and in 1850 he moved to Rostock as a full professor. He continued some of the agricultural chemistry investigations he had begun at Eldena and became more involved in the study of hygiene. After cholera struck Rostock in 1866, he conducted studies on airborne micro-organisms, noting their possible role in putrefaction. As early as 1836, he built glassware to bubble air through sulfuric acid to demonstrate that such treated air did not lead to growth on sterile and isolated media. This method was developed on by Theodor Schwann, John Tyndall and others in the early debates on spontaneous generation. 

Schulze married Charlotte, daughter of Sydow zu Charlottenburg, in Eldena in 1839 and they had two sons, the older Franz Eilhard Schulze (the middle name from his godfather Mitscherlich) became a zoologist. After the death of Charlotte in 1850 he married Mathilde von Langermann in 1852. He died from pneumonia at Rostock.

References 

1815 births
1873 deaths
German chemists
Chemists from the Kingdom of Prussia
HMS Circe (J214). HMS Circe (J214) was a steam turbine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The turbine-powered ships displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . The turbine group had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The ships had two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 15 November 1940 at the Harland & Wolff at Belfast, Ireland. She was laid down on 21 July 1941 and launched on 22 May 1944. The ship was commissioned on 16 October 1942.

In April 1943, she was selected for duty with her Minesweeping Flotilla for clearance of passage through Galita and Sicilian channels to Tripoli to ensure safe passage for allied ships, also known as Operation Antidote. In July, the ship together with Acute and Albacore took part in minesweeping missions prior to Operation Husky. In September, she was deployed to sweep the area in preparation for Operation Avalanche.

On 21 January 1944, she was deployed with Acute, Espiegle and Spanker to conduct minesweeping mission North West of Anzio in preparation for Operation Shingle.

From January to February 1945, she swept the waters in the Kinaros and Doro Channels.

In April 1946, the ship and her sisters were sent back to the UK to be decommissioned on arrival. The ship was put into the reserve fleet and laid up at Harwich until the ship was transferred to be used as a RNVR Drill Ship at Dundee.

In 1956, she was put on the disposal list and sold to BISCO for scrap by the Arnott Young & Co. at Glasgow, Scotland in which she arrived in March 1957.

References

Bibliography
 
 
 
 

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Belfast
1942 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom
Rémi Taffin. Rémi Taffin (born 14 March 1975) is a French engineer who is the technical director of French firm Oreca. He was previously the engine technical director for the French Formula 1 team Alpine F1 and Renault Sport.

He graduated in mechanical engineering from the École supérieure des techniques aéronautiques et de construction automobile (ESTACA). Taffin began his career in motorsport when he became a racing engineer in 1998 in the Signature stable in Formula 3. The following year, he got a job at Renault and worked with their clients such as Arrows, Benetton Formula, British American Racing (BAR) and Renault F1. Until 2009, Taffin was an engine race engineer for Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Heikki Kovalainen, Jos Verstappen and Ricardo Zonta, among others.

He was involved when the driver Fernando Alonso and the team won both the drivers' and constructors' championships for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. In 2009, he became head of engine performance at races and worked with the teams that used Renault engines, including Red Bull Racing, which won four straight drivers' and constructors' championships (2010-2013). In 2014, he was promoted to COO of Renault's engine manufacturers and two years later he was appointed technical, a position he left in June 2021.

In December 2021, Taffin began as Oreca's technical director.

References

1975 births
Living people
Formula One engine engineers
Renault people
Oscar Au. Oscar Chi-Lim Au is an engineer who worked as a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, from 1992 to 2014. 

He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for his contributions to multimedia coding and security. He received the B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto in 1986, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, under the supervision of John B. Thomas. Currently, he is the Vice President (Strategic Development and Alliance) of Origin Wireless, Inc., which was founded by Prof. K. J. Ray Liu to pioneer wireless AI for wireless sensing and indoor positioning.

References

External links 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the IEEE
Princeton University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Artificial intelligence researchers
20th-century educators
20th-century engineers
21st-century engineers
HMS Cockatrice (J229). HMS Cockatrice (J229) was a reciprocating engine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The reciprocating group displaced  at standard load and  at deep load The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . They had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The reciprocating ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 15 November 1940 at the Fleming and Ferguson at Paisley, Scotland. She was laid down on 21 July 1941 and launched on 22 May 1944. The ship was commissioned on 16 October 1942.

On 6 June 1944, the ship supported the invasion force during D-Day by providing smoke screens and setting up fuel lines.

In February 1948, she returned to the UK and decommissioned on arrival. She was sold for scrap in 1963.

References

Bibliography

External links
 HMS Cockatrice (J 229) at uboat.com

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Belfast
1942 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom
Dott Services. Dott Services Limited, commonly referred to as Dott Services, is a Ugandan engineering and construction company. 
As of December 2021, it is one of the leading companies in the engineering and construction fields, in the African Great Lakes Region. Headquartered in Kampala, Uganda's capital city, Dott Services is active in Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and DR Congo,

Overview
Dott Services was established in 1994 by four engineers who graduated from the same engineering college in India: (a) Venugopal Rao (Executive Director, Dott Services) (b) Maheswara Reddy, (Managing Director, Dott Services) (c) Prasad Reddy and (d) Komi Reddy. Each of the founders/directors own 25 percent of the company stock. As of 2021 the company employed an estimated work force of between 500 and 1,000 people.

Ownership
The business is privately owned by the families of the four original founders. The table below illustrates the shareholding in the company stock.

Governance
The executive chairman of the company is Venugopal Rao, an Indian national. Maheswara Reddy, another Indian national, is the managing director. The contracts manager at the company is Engineer Jamesone Olonya, a Ugandan national.

Projects
This is a partial listing of past and current construction projects, where Dott Services Limited is or was the lead contractor:

1. Iganga–Tirinyi–Kamonkoli–Mbale Road: The tarmacking of this  road to class II bitumen standard, with shoulders, culverts and drainage channels, was ongoing as of July 2020.

2. The Ishaka–Kagamba Road: This  road was converted to bitumen surface in 2016.

3. Jinja-Kamuli Road: The road was resurfaced in 2007, in preparation for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, Uganda and as of 2021, is under preparation for resurfacing.

4. Kampala–Mityana Road: The , Muduuma–Mityana section of the Kampala–Mityana Road, was converted to class 2 bitumen standard, by Dott Services Limited, between 2008 and 2012.

5. The Hoima-Kiziranfumbi-Kabaale Road, and Kafu-Masindi Road are both contracted to Dott Services Limited, as part of Uganda's Oil Roads.

6. Dott Services is contracted to build/repair/improve several roads in Tanzania, including (a) Korogwe–Mkumbara–Same Road (b) Kawawa–Nduoni–Marangu Mtoni Road (c) Mkuu–Tarakea Road and (d) Marangu–Kilacha–Rombo Road''.

7. Dott services also done Rural electrification Projects in various regions in the country and also water, sewer, irrigation as well.

Recent developments
In 2021, Dott Services Limited was selected to construct a number of roads inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, linking that country to Uganda, to the east. The roads, totaling , in length, include the Kasindi–Beni–Butembo Road and the Bunagana–Rutshuru–Goma Road.

See also
 Economy of Uganda
 ROKO Construction Company

References

External links
 Official Website

Construction and civil engineering companies of Uganda
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1994
Kampala
Nakawa Division
1994 establishments in Uganda
HMS Felicity (J369). HMS Felicity (J369) was a reciprocating engine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The reciprocating group displaced  at standard load and  at deep load The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . They had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The reciprocating ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 25 November 1942 at the Redfern Construction at Toronto, Canada. She was laid down on 22 September 1943 and launched on 19 January 1944. The ship was commissioned on 10 August 1944. The ship was originally named HMCS Copper Cliff.

In 1947, she was decommissioned and sold to merchant service with the name Fairfree. In 1957, the ship was finally sold for scrap.

References

Bibliography

External links
 HMS Felicity (J 369) at uboat.net

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Toronto
1944 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom
HMS Jewel (J390). HMS Jewel (J390) was a steam turbine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The turbine-powered ships displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . The turbine group had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The ships had two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 30 April 1942 at the Harland & Wolff at Belfast, Ireland. She was laid down on 27 November 1943 and launched on 20 July 1944. The ship was commissioned on 9 December 1944.

On 21 February 1945, she was deployed to Scapa Flow during Operation Shred. Two days later, she swept the Norwegian waters during Operation Groundsheet. In October, she was stationed in Singapore as part of the 10th Flotilla.

In September 1946, the ship was sent back to the UK to be decommissioned on arrival. The ship was put into the reserve fleet and laid up at Harwich until the ship was transferred to be used as a RNVR Drill Ship at Dundee in January 1948.

On 28 December 1955, she was recommissioned into the Dartmouth Training Squadron in which she trained Cadets from the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth until 1961.

In 1956 she was the starting vessel for the Torbay to Lisbon yacht race - now considered to be the first modern Tall Ship Race.

In 1966, she was put on the disposal list and sold to BISCO for scrap at Inverkeithing, Scotland in which she arrived on 7 April 1967.

References

Bibliography

External links
 HMS Jewel (J 390) at uboat.net

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Belfast
1944 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom
HMS Lennox (J276). HMS Lennox (J276) was a reciprocating engine-powered  during the Second World War.

Design and description

The reciprocating group displaced  at standard load and  at deep load The ships measured  long overall with a beam of . They had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.

The reciprocating ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at .

The Algerine class was armed with a QF  Mk V anti-aircraft gun and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for depth charges.

Construction and career
The ship was ordered on 3 May 1942 at the Lobnitz & Company at Renfrew, Scotland. She was laid down on 3 March 1943 and launched on 15 October 1943. The ship was commissioned on 18 January 1944.

On 6 June 1944, she swept the seas off Juno Beach during Operation Neptune. On 17 September, she was deployed with her flotilla for Air Sea Rescue duties during Operation Market Garden.

In July 1945, she was deployed to Malaya for Operation Collie.

In March 1946, the ship was sent back to the UK and deployed with the Fishery Protection Squadron from September that year until November 1947. The ship was put into the reserve fleet by February 1948.

In 1956, she was recommissioned into the Fishery Protection duties and was deployed mainly off Iceland and North Norway until February 1958 when she was relieved by the new Type 14 Frigate, HMS Russell. After paying off remained in reserve and was refitted including installation of a Squid Mortar to improve her anti-submarine capability necessary for use as a convoy escort.

In 1960, she was put on the disposal list and sold to BISCO for scrap in Milford Haven in which she arrived in June 1961.

References

Bibliography

External links
HMS Lennox (ii) (J 276) at uboat.net

Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Ships built on the River Clyde
1943 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom