Épervier was one of six Aigle-class destroyers (French: contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1930s. Together with her sister ship Milan, Épervier was to be built at the Arsenal de Lorient, but that shipyard was…
She was laid down on 10 August 1940 by Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack as yard number 11, launched on 10 April 1941 and commissioned on 29 May that year under Kapitänleutnant Ernst Vogelsang.
Naval gunners manned the El Hank coastal artillery battery of four 194 mm (7.6 in) guns and four 138 mm (5.4 in) guns. One quadruple 380 mm/45 Modèle 1935 gun turret of the modern battleship Jean Bart was operational, although the battleship…
Composed of 187 delegates from 35 counties and ten towns, it met at the court house in Halifax from November 12 to December 23, 1776, in the first year of American independence.
Get tickets to A Doll’s House at the Guthrie Theater — a bold new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic by Amy Herzog playing September 13 — October 12.
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