High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Blue Jay (AMc-23) was a coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. Charles J. Ashley—a wooden-hulled “dragger” (fishing craft) built in 1936 at Thomaston, Maine, by the Wilbur Morse Shipyards—was acquired by the Navy from John G. Murley of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on 5 November 1940; renamed Blue Jay and classified as a...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Blue Jay (AMc-23) was a coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. Charles J. Ashley—a wooden-hulled “dragger” (fishing craft) built in 1936 at Thomaston, Maine, by the Wilbur Morse Shipyards—was acquired by the Navy from John G. Murley of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on 5 November 1940; renamed Blue Jay and classified as a coastal minesweeper, AMc-23, on 22 November 1940; converted to a minecraft at the Neponset, Massachusetts, shipyards of George Lawley & Sons; and placed in service at the Boston Navy Yard on 22 June 1941, Lt. Hiram S. Walker, Jr., USNR, in charge.
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Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский (1863–1944) — изобретатель, фотограф, издатель и общественный деятель, первооткрыватель цветной фотографии в России. Цель работы Сергея Михайловича — запечатлеть "в натуральных красках" всю красоту и богатство Российской империи, используя технологию совмещения кадров. С 1903 по 1916 гг. Прокудин-Горский успел сделать около трех с половиной тысяч цветных снимков,...
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