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Just saw this. Holy ****...Angelsachsen said:#414 The British K-class of submarines of the First World War were considered unlucky. Of the 18 vessels built, 6 sank in accidents and none through enemy action.
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[*]K1 collided with K4 during a patrol off the Danish coast and was subsequently scuttled on the 18th November '17 to prevent her capture.
[*]K2 suffered an explosion and fire during her first diving trials before even commissioned. Had her bow crumpled in a collision with K12 on the 11th January '24 as they left harbour and collided with H29, another submarine, on the 7th November '24 during an exercise.
[*]K3 suffered an uncontrollable dive in December '16 (she had the future King George VI on board, as well). On the 9th January '17, her boiler room flooded when patrolling in the North Sea. On the 2nd May '18, a second uncontrollable dive sent her to 266 feet, below crush depth, but she survived.
[*]K4 collided with K1 on the 17th November '17. She was lost with all hands when almost cut in half by K6 and, when sinking, hit by K7 during the disastrous night time fleet exercise Operation E.C.1 on the 31st January '18.
[*]K5 was lost with all hands on the 20th January '21 when en route to a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay.
[*]K6 damaged when she collided with K4 in Operation E.C.1.
[*]On the 16th June '17, K7 fired a salvo of torpedoes at German U-boat U-95 and hit. The torpedoes, the only ones fired by a K-class submarine in action, failed to detonate and she had to withdraw before retaliated against. Damaged in collision with K4 during Operation E.C.1.
[*]K8 actually survived the war relatively intact.
[*]K9 also survived unscathed.
[*]K10 survived and was sold for scrap on the 4th November '21, but still foundered in tow afterwards.
[*]K11 was damaged by a fire during a North Sea patrol in '17.
[*]K12 was holed in the collision with K2 on the 11th January '24.
[*]K13 sank on the 29th January '17 with the loss of 32 of her 80 crew. She was raised during the rescue efforts, but sank again. She was recommissioned as K22 on the 15th March when she was salvaged and repaired. Ended up getting rammed by K14 during Operation E.C.1.
[*]K14's steering jammed during the Operation E.C.1 incident and she collided with K22 (old K13) with the loss of 2 men.
[*]K15 sank in harbour on the 25th June '21 but was salvaged the next month.
[*]K16's hydroplanes failed resulting in a sudden dive. Resurfaced successfully, though.
[*]K17 was lost with all hands in a collision with HMS Fearless during Operation E.C.1
[*]K26 was launched after the war and, as the last built, was the best designed. The last of her class, she was scrapped in March '31 as she exceeded the limits set in the London Naval Treaty.
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PS: Operation E.C.1 is sometimes called the Battle of May Island as there were two submarines sunk, and four submarines and a cruiser damaged. All in accidental collisions.
I think I heard somewhere there was a similar situation in the USSR regarding the abortion-child ratio. It's pretty grim.Adorno said:#419 In Greenland women get more abortions than children.
In 2016 767 children were born. Same year 855 abortions were carried out.
On average women in Greenland get 2 abortions.
4.5 percent of the women who had an abortion i Nuuk in 2018 had previously had more than 6 abortions.
(Danish) https://www.24syv.dk/programmer/55-minutter/49730349/gronlandske-kvinder-far-flere
Quite a stretch, no. Latin cubus and gradus seem like more plausible sources.NUQAR'S Kentucky "Nuqar" James XXL said:Ka'aba = Cube
Daraja = Degree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaliforniaThe name likely derived from the mythical island California in the fictional story of Queen Calafia,
as recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo [...]
In the fictional paradise, the ruler Queen Calafia fought alongside Muslims and her name may have been chosen
to echo the title of a Muslim leader, the Caliph. It's possible the name California was meant to imply the island was a Caliphate.