Squid
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
El sistema anti-submarí Squid, montat en el destructor HMS Cavalier. Es tracta d'una arma formada per tres tubs llença carregues de profunditat, que es podia inclinar 180º, tant per carregar com per apuntar. Es feien servir de dos en dos, montats en paral·lel. Es disparava coordinat pel sonar, de manera que les sis carregues de profunditat explotaven formant una esfera entorn el submarí que així era esclafat.
El destructor HMS Cavalier és el darrer supervivient de la inmensa flota de destructors de la Royal Navy durant la II Guerra Mundial. Una bona pila (142!) foren enfonstats, i la resta desballestats les dècades seguents.
El Cavalier va servir des del novembre del 1944, primer escortant convois artics i després lluitant contra els japonesos.
El dic sec on està situat és igualment historic, ja que aquí fou construit en 1759-1765 el HMS Victory, el vaixell insigina de Nelson a Trafalgar.
Al est de Londres, al estuari del riu Medway, es troba el Chatham Dockyard, avui en dia un museu naval, però fins finals del s. XX una de les principals bases de construcció naval del Regne Unit. Ja en època dels Tudor (s. XVI) s'establiren les drassanes, que s'anaren ampliant massivament fins al màxim el s. XIX. Aquí s'hi va construir, entre molts altres el famós HMS Victory, vaixell de Nelson a Trafalgar i encara visitable avui en dia.
Ja al s. XX, Chatham Dockyard va anant deixant de ser base naval i centrant-se en la construcció de vaixells ja de ferro. De fet, la seva darrera fase fins el 1968 va ser construir submarins; el 1984 tancà del tot. La part més antiga ha estat reacondicionada com a museu naval.
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The Squid anti-submarine system, mounted on the destroyer HMS Cavalier. It is a weapon made up of three tubes that throw depth charges, which could be tilted 180º, both to load and to aim. They were used two at a time, mounted in parallel. It was fired coordinated by the sonar, so that the six depth charges exploded forming a sphere around the submarine which was thus imploded by the pressure wave moving inwards.
The HMS Cavalier is the last remaining WW2 Royal Navy destroyer, all the others being sunk (142 of them!!!) or scrapped. It's also a monument to all those destroyers sunk and it's crews. It was commisioned in november 1944 and served in Artic convoys patrol before being sent to fight the Japanese. It was decommisioned in 1971, being converted in a museum ship in several locations, until being brought to Chatham in 1995.
The dry-dock where it stands now is also quite important, being the place where the HMS Victory was built in 1759-1765.
To the east of London, in the estuary of the river Medway, is the Chatham Dockyard, today a naval museum, but until the end of the 20th Century one of the main shipbuilding bases of the United Kingdom. As early as the Tudor era (16th century) shipyards were established, which were massively expanded until the maximum in the 19th century. Here, among many others, the famous HMS Victory, Nelson's ship at Trafalgar and still visitable today, was built.
Already in the 20th Century, Chatham Dockyard gradually stopped being a naval base and focused on the construction of iron ships. In fact, its last phase until 1968 was to build submarines; in 1984 it closed completely. The oldest part has been refurbished as a naval museum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(weapon)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cavalier_(R73)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Historic_Dockyard
Squid
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
El sistema anti-submarí Squid, montat en el destructor HMS Cavalier. Es tracta d'una arma formada per tres tubs llença carregues de profunditat, que es podia inclinar 180º, tant per carregar com per apuntar. Es feien servir de dos en dos, montats en paral·lel. Es disparava coordinat pel sonar, de manera que les sis carregues de profunditat explotaven formant una esfera entorn el submarí que així era esclafat.
El destructor HMS Cavalier és el darrer supervivient de la inmensa flota de destructors de la Royal Navy durant la II Guerra Mundial. Una bona pila (142!) foren enfonstats, i la resta desballestats les dècades seguents.
El Cavalier va servir des del novembre del 1944, primer escortant convois artics i després lluitant contra els japonesos.
El dic sec on està situat és igualment historic, ja que aquí fou construit en 1759-1765 el HMS Victory, el vaixell insigina de Nelson a Trafalgar.
Al est de Londres, al estuari del riu Medway, es troba el Chatham Dockyard, avui en dia un museu naval, però fins finals del s. XX una de les principals bases de construcció naval del Regne Unit. Ja en època dels Tudor (s. XVI) s'establiren les drassanes, que s'anaren ampliant massivament fins al màxim el s. XIX. Aquí s'hi va construir, entre molts altres el famós HMS Victory, vaixell de Nelson a Trafalgar i encara visitable avui en dia.
Ja al s. XX, Chatham Dockyard va anant deixant de ser base naval i centrant-se en la construcció de vaixells ja de ferro. De fet, la seva darrera fase fins el 1968 va ser construir submarins; el 1984 tancà del tot. La part més antiga ha estat reacondicionada com a museu naval.
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The Squid anti-submarine system, mounted on the destroyer HMS Cavalier. It is a weapon made up of three tubes that throw depth charges, which could be tilted 180º, both to load and to aim. They were used two at a time, mounted in parallel. It was fired coordinated by the sonar, so that the six depth charges exploded forming a sphere around the submarine which was thus imploded by the pressure wave moving inwards.
The HMS Cavalier is the last remaining WW2 Royal Navy destroyer, all the others being sunk (142 of them!!!) or scrapped. It's also a monument to all those destroyers sunk and it's crews. It was commisioned in november 1944 and served in Artic convoys patrol before being sent to fight the Japanese. It was decommisioned in 1971, being converted in a museum ship in several locations, until being brought to Chatham in 1995.
The dry-dock where it stands now is also quite important, being the place where the HMS Victory was built in 1759-1765.
To the east of London, in the estuary of the river Medway, is the Chatham Dockyard, today a naval museum, but until the end of the 20th Century one of the main shipbuilding bases of the United Kingdom. As early as the Tudor era (16th century) shipyards were established, which were massively expanded until the maximum in the 19th century. Here, among many others, the famous HMS Victory, Nelson's ship at Trafalgar and still visitable today, was built.
Already in the 20th Century, Chatham Dockyard gradually stopped being a naval base and focused on the construction of iron ships. In fact, its last phase until 1968 was to build submarines; in 1984 it closed completely. The oldest part has been refurbished as a naval museum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(weapon)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cavalier_(R73)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Historic_Dockyard