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  Andrea Doria Summary
Andrea Doria was orphaned as a child, and journeyed to Rome as a teenager to serve in the papal army of Pope Innocent VIII, a fellow Genoese, who battled the Turks until his death in 1492.
Doria was now the de facto ruler of the Republic of Genoa, and held the tittle of Grand Admiral of the fleet of the Holy Roman Empire, which Charles V bestowed upon him because of his services to the Empire.
Andrea Doria or D'Oria (November 30 1466-November 25 1560) was a Genoese condottiero and admiral.
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  Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (C-Car)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
HMS Caesar (formerly Ranger) was a British C Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1944.
HMS Cambrian (formerly Spitfire) was a British C Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1943.
She carries a crew of 35 and is armed with two quad arrangements of Aerospatiale Exocet MM40 missile launchers; one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 gun; a twin arrangement of Breda 40 mm/70 guns and two twin arrangements of Oerlikon 30 mm/75 guns.
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 Andrea Corr - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Andrea Corr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andrea Jane Corr (born May 17, 1974) is the lead singer for the Irish folk-rock band The Corrs.
Andrea is thought to have turned down the opportunity after learning the part required her to appear nude in several scenes.
Soon Andrea's policy was left in tatters, as she finally appeared topless in a British national newspaper, but unwittingly and without payment - a long-lens camera had homed in on her while bathing on a beach.
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The protected cruiser of medium displacement affords a convenient starting-point, as the latest vessels of this type in 1910 were of about the same displacement as the largest first- Second-class cruisers of thirty years before, and a comparison of class representative ships of these classes illustrates the great cruisers.
The next cruisers to be built were the "Invincibles," which might have been classed as battleships on account of their heavy armament and substantial armour protection; the Dread- former greatly exceeding in power the armament of Fastnet—at an average speed of 25.13 knots, a record speed at the time for a transatlantic voyage.
The French second-class cruisers may be said to have commenced with the " Davout," of 3027 tons, 9000 I.H.P. and 202 knots, and the " Alger " and " Isly," of 4350 tons, 8000 I.H.P. and 19 knots, in 1887.
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 Nitrox, Wreck, Trimix, Technical Diver
The Andrea Doria is the most famous ocean liner to sink since the Lusitania Titanic, but unlike the Titanic which was at the beginning of transatlantic luxury crossings, the Doria marked of the end of an era.
And although some wrecks are deeper and can be more challenging than the Andrea Doria, the Grand Dame, forty-four years after her sinking she still gives up her treasures of crystal, china, and artwork to those daring few who brave the seas and the collapsing wreck each season.
The Andrea Doria presents some interesting challenges to the Captains who charter their boats for passage, the crews that support the operations, the divers, and the authorities.
www.nitroxdiver.com /Library/NAUIdoria.html   (3061 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (An-Aq)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Andrea Doria is an Italian Andrea Doria Class cruiser of 5000 tons standard displacement launched in 1963.
HMS Andromeda was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by the HM Dockyard at Portsmouth and launched in 1967.
HMS Anthony was a British A class destroyer of 1350 tons built by Scotts of Greenock and launched in 1929.
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 Mocatiello's Restaurant - About us
One of the most wily fighting men and politicians of his day, Andrea Doria, who is credited as the first man to discover how to sail against the wind, became Admiral of the Genoese Fleet and "Father of his country".
Like that of the Borghese, the name of Doria lived on through the centuries as one of the great family names of Italy and it was to Andrea Doria that the Italian Line returned when choosing a name fitting for the great ship it had designed after the second World War.
Andrea Doria returned to Genoa at 11:20pm on the 9th and was formally handed over on the 19th, one of the proudest days in Italia's history.
www.moscatiellos.com /andrea/about_the_andrea_doria.htm   (1080 words)

  
 Andrea Doria-The Ships
On January 14th, 1953 the Andrea Doria began her maiden voyage and was given one of Genoa's most heartfelt send-off.
Andrea Doria arrives in New York on her maiden voyage.
Students and a priest from the Salesian School in Goshen, NY visited the Andrea Doria in the summer of 1955.
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 Encyclopedia: USS Alaska (CB-1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ships of the Alaska class had a main battery much heavier than those of normal heavy cruisers, but were lighter and faster than a battleship.
Composed of Alaska, her sister ship Guam, the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, the light cruiser Santa Fe), and three destroyer divisions, TU 58.2.9 drew the duty of screening the damaged "Big Ben," as Franklin had been affectionately nicknamed by her crew.
On the night of 21–22 April, the cruiser again used her heavy antiaircraft battery to drive off single aircraft attempting to attack the task group.
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 Origins of the Battlecruiser
Thus armored cruisers might actually have an advantage over battleships at some ranges, and some proposals (in Italy and Russia) were put forward for ships armed exclusively with 8-inch guns (which were seen as the ideal combination of rapid-fire with armor-piercing).
In general, however, armored cruisers were fitted with a few big turret guns fore and aft (8-inch to 10-inch) to act as "closers" that could penetrate the other fellow's armor once his topsides had been chewed up by the quick-firers at longer ranges.
The parallel N3 class battleships were slower, and armed with 18-inch guns; they were given a much lower priority than the "battlecruisers." The Japanese were likewise designing a parallel series of battleships and battlecruisers, where the only difference between types was slightly thicker armor in the battleships, and slightly higher speed in the battlecruisers.
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 Encyclopedia: List of amphibious warfare ships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nave Andrea Doria Andrea Doria class of helicopter cruisers of the Marina Militare were Italys first major new designs of the post-WWII era.
The Galicia class are a class of Landing Platform Dock or LPD amphibious warfare ships with a large helicopter deck and a dock for large landing craft.
USS Raleigh (LPD-1), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport docks, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named for the capital of North Carolina, which in turn honors the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, the first to attempt the establishment of an English settlement...
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 Dreadnought
The term "Treaty Cruisers" refers to the cruisers built under the treaty restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
As with the renamed cruisers, the name of the Princeton was immediately given to a new carrier, CV-37, which was originally supposed to be the Valley Forge.
When, after a fashion, it was revived, as the "heavy cruiser" under the regime of the Treaty Cruisers, with CA hull numbers, these were considered cruisers proper and were given city names like other cruisers.
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 Doria
Andrea Doria This Andrea Doria is the Genoese admiral.
Andrea Doria class cruiser The Andrea Doria class of cruisers of the Italian Navy were Italy's first major new designs o...
SS Andrea Doria The SS Andrea Doria was an Andrea Doria.
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 New Jersey Scuba Diver - Dive Sites - Andrea Doria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Of the Andrea Doria, the Italian Line said, "She was also designed as a living testament to the importance of beauty in the everyday world." This was reflected in every part of the ship, right down to the china service.
The Andrea Doria was not only a magnificent ship, she was emblematic of the times and most of all she was the product of a proud people from a struggling nation who wanted the world to see that it was still capable of producing a masterpiece.
The Andrea Doria's master might have acted differently had he known the ship bearing down on his was a small fishing vessel, as he was led to believe, but another fast-moving ocean liner also intent on keeping to a tight schedule.
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 War in the Mediterranean - The Taranto Raid
The two cruisers were scheduled to reinforce Operation Judgement (attack on Taranto) fleet.
In addition, the 6 battleships, 7 cruisers and 28 destroyers in the inner and outer harbors of Taranto could potentially add a tremendous punch to the Italian AA, lending their 600+ batteries.
In the inner harbor, heavy cruiser Trento had been damaged by an unexploded bomb which had open a hole in one of her fuel tank.
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 AUE TRIP REPORTS
We were all familiar with the wreck of the Doria and decided to give it a shot and see what all the hoopla was all about.
BEFORE CONTINUING: We all acknowledge that the wreck of the Andrea Doria was probably an incredible dive when she was intact.
In contrast to other trips that have the benefit of vast crew experience on the Doria and appear almost to be a "follow the leader" type of dive in order to recover artifacts, we were quite content to see as much of the wreck as possible.
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 Nantucket Today
Gimbel gave a vivid description of the appearance of the Andrea Doria and of the difficulties experienced in reaching and returning from the area in which she sank.
Despite the thick fog through which the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria was racing on the night of Wednesday, July 25, her fog horn was not being sounded, and only the smaller of her two radar antennae was operating.
The Doria was struck just aft of the bridge, he said, and their cabins were approximately under the funnel.
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Brin's first pair of vessels, the Duilio Class pre-dreadnoughts of 1872, were the largest, fastest, and most heavily armed vessels in the world at the time of their launch.
The two Italian overgrown cruisers were a failure, mostly because their 9-year building times made them obsolete before completion.
While the Vittorio Veneto Class ships were quite good, their long building times meant that they were not available in the crucial, early days of the war in the Med.
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 Nitrox, Wreck, Trimix, Technical Diver
Mortally wounded on the morning after her collision with the Stockholm, the Andrea Doria lists to starboard, taking on water and preparing to make her final plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean south of Nantucket.
The Doria lies on her starboard side, meaning walls have become floors and ceilings while floors and ceilings have become walls.
The bloom of death on the Doria in 1998 and 1999 was tragic.
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 Ocean Zone Divers - Wrecks UK - SMS Karlsruhe
The SMS Karlsruhe was a light cruiser type Konigsberg II-class of 5'354 tonnes for a length of 151m, 14m at the beam and a draught of 6m.
She was commissioned the 15th of November 1906 and joined the Fleet as a unit of the Second Scouting Group.
From the beginning of her operations, the Karlsruhe proved to be an extremely efficient unit and on the 16th of August 1917 while cruising with the Frankfurt, she surprised a fleet of British destroyers but before any damage was inflected to either side, they left, being outnumbered and outgunned by the German ships.
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 Andrea Doria class cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrea Doria class of helicopter cruisers of the Marina Militare were Italy's first major new designs of the post-WWII era.
The class consisted of two vessels, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, both commissioned in 1964 and in service into the late 1980s.
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 Andrea Doria class cruiser Definition / Andrea Doria class cruiser Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andrea Doria class of helicopter cruisersIn military terminology, a cruiser is a large warship capable of engaging multiple targets simultaneously.
Historically they were generally considered the smallest ships capable of independent operations — destroyers usually requiring outside support such as tenders — but in modern parlance this difference has disappeared.
The class consisted of two vessels, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, both commissioned in 1964 Events January January 1 - Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
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 Italian 135 mm/45 (5.3") Model 1938
Used on the battleships Andrea Doria and Dulio as a secondary weapon and on the "Capitani Romani" class light cruisers as the main weapon.
Note: On Capitani Romani class, the outfit was 440 AP, 756 HE and 84 AA together with 1,280 VR flashless cartridges (VR = "Vampa Ridotta").
1) A twin AA version for the Etna class cruisers and for the rebuild of the damaged battleship Conte Di Cavour were only in the planning stages by the time of the Italian Armistice.
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For the final class of cruisers laid down just at the start of World War Two, the names of the ships were chosen from the great generals of the
The first two classes comprising a total of six ships were to all intent, unarmored.
The cruiser stayed with the Italian navy after the war ended, at least until the final division of the Italian ships occurred.
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 IJN Hiei, Ships of Battlegroup
The remaining ships in the class, Haruna, Hiei and Kirishima, were all built in Japan.
In common with all British battle cruisers, her armor was thin.
Japanese superiority in night fighting and torpedoes were useless when the American cruisers and destroyers sailed between the Japanese ship lines at such close range that 8 inch cruiser shells from the San Francisco could pierce Hiei’s battlecruiser armor.
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 new italian aircraft carrier Andrea Doria - Page 5 - Military Photos
The Conte di Cavour class of battle ships were being built prior to the Treaty of Washington.
But the 4 preexsting Battle Ships were converted into 2 different classes (albeit not so different from each other, the main armament, for instance, was the same for the two classes).
The matter can be a little bit confusing because the 4 original Battle Ships were of only one class, and the class was named Conte di Cavour.
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 Navy Matters | Type 45 Section
The one criticism of the class was that they seemed under-armed for their size and cost, and so the Exocet missile system was installed on all ships after the first three, and those would be fitted with it at there mid-life refits (although Antelope was sunk during the Falklands conflict).
The development of the successor to the Leander class frigates proved to be a long drawn out affair, and eventually became the Type 82 fleet escort destroyer which was designed to act as an escort for the CVA-01 fast carrier.
From the fifth of class onwards, it was decided that the hull would be lengthened by 41 feet to provide more internal space, for munitions and additional sonar equipment.
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 Italian Navy
The Vittorio Veneto is a purpose built helicopter cruiser that followed from the design of the Andrea Doria class of the 1950s.
The first of class ship, MM Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560), and the second, MM Francesco Mimbelli (D561), were commissioned in 1993.
This class was a major improvement over the previous Alpino class frigates, with a more "multirole" configuration and more modern and powerful weaponry.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Image:NAndrea_Doria.jpg thumbNave ''Andrea Doria'''''''Andrea Doria'' class''' of helicopter cruisers of the ''Marina Militare'' were Italy's first major new designs of the post-WWII era.
The class consisted of two vessels, Italian cruiser Andrea Doria (C553) ''Andrea Doria'' and Italian cruiser Caio Duilio (C554) ''Caio Duilio'', both commissioned in 1964 and in service into the late 1980s.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Andrea Doria class cruiser.
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 Italian Navy
In Italy, where a long battle to restore fixed-wing aviation to the Fleet resulted in the commissioning of Guiseppe Garibaldi in 1985, the new 'Andrea Doria' class carrier is planned to enter service in 2007.
The Audace class was derived from the Impavido class but incorparated a number of modifications in weapons and detection systems.
The Sauro class were delivered in 4 batches to the Italian navy with every batch small modifications and improvements.
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