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Orkney Image Library - Soldiers. Learn morse code. The Best of Adventure, Volume 1-1910-1912: editor), Doug Ellis: 9781928619970: Amazon.com. Ford T-Model - cars catalog, specs, features, photos, videos, review, parts, accessories - Flipa Cars. Fritz Joubert Duquesne. As a German spy, he went by the code name DUNN.

Fritz Joubert Duquesne

In 1942, he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were convicted in the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States. Early life[edit] Fritz Joubert Duquesne was born to a Boer family of French Huguenot origin in East London, Cape Colony in 1877 and later moved with his parents to Nylstroom in the South African Republic, where they started a farm.

When he was 17 years old, Duquesne went to London for university. After graduation, he attended the Académie Militaire Royale in Brussels. Losses due to the British[edit] Duquesne joined the British army in South Africa. Second Anglo-Boer War[edit] He was one of the craftiest men I ever met. At this camp, he charmed the daughter of one of the guards, who helped him escape to Paris. As a British officer, he returned to Cape Town with plans to sabotage strategic British installations. He was imprisoned in Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope. Marriage and family[edit] Capt. Orkney Image Library - Kirkwall Moss Gatherers, July 1917. The German Poets of the First World War - Patrick Bridgwater. Gorch Fock (author) Gorch Fock [ɡɔʀx fɔk][1] was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 – 31 May 1916).

Gorch Fock (author)

Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco. In 1904 Kinau started publishing poetry and stories in his native Low German dialect. In 1913 he published his most popular work, the novel Seefahrt ist Not! , in which he describes the life of the deep sea fishermen of his home island. In the First World War, Kinau was drafted into the German infantry in 1915. Jump up ^ "Fock, Gorch", in Webster's Biographical Dictionary (1960), Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster. 1910 Schullengrieper und Tungenkrieper1911 Hein Godenwind1913 Hamborger Janmaten1913 Seefahrt ist Not! Gorch Fock. SMS Wiesbaden. SMS Wiesbaden[a] was a light cruiser of the Wiesbaden class built for the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

SMS Wiesbaden

She had one sister ship, SMS Frankfurt; the ships were very similar to the previous Karlsruhe-class cruisers. The ship was laid down in 1913, launched in January 1915, and completed by August 1915. Armed with eight 15 cm SK L/45 guns, Wiesbaden had a top speed of 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) and displaced 6,601 t (6,497 long tons; 7,276 short tons) at full load.

Design[edit] The ship was armed with eight 15 cm SK L/45 guns in single pedestal mounts. Service history[edit] Commanded by Captain Fritz Reiss, Wiesbaden was assigned to the II Scouting Group of light cruisers under Konteradmiral Friedrich Bödicker, which took part in the Battle of Jutland on 30 May and 1 June 1916.[4] Wiesbaden's sister ship Frankfurt served as Bödicker's flagship. German navy sea Cadet. Philippine Military Cadets Bangladesh Military High School Cadets A cadet is a trainee.

german navy sea Cadet

The term is frequently used to refer those training to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. Its meaning may vary between countries. The term is also used in civilian contexts and as a general attributive, for example in its original sense of a branch of a ruling house which is not currently in the direct line of succession.

Etymology[edit] The term comes from the French term "cadet" for younger sons of a noble family. Military context[edit] The Sea Hawk. The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915.

The Sea Hawk

The story is set over the years 1588–1593, and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr", the hawk of the sea, and swears vengeance against his brother.

Plot summary[edit] Sir Oliver Tressilian lives at the house of Penarrow together with his brother Lionel and his servant Nicholas. One day, Peter's actions lead to Sir Oliver dueling Sir John, whom he deems to be the source of the enmity. Circumstances make everyone believe Sir Oliver is the killer, and Lionel does nothing to quench that rumor. One day he captures a Spanish vessel and thereon discovers his one-time kidnapper Jasper Leigh as a slave at the oars.

Film adaptations[edit] File:SM U-9 - Archive photo of crew and officers.jpg.