The Bergepanzer 3 was a German armoured recovery vehicle of the Second World War based upon the Panzer 3 chassis. Some 150 Bergepanzer 3 were built during 1944, the turret being removed and a large wooden box body being mounted on top of the former fighting compartment, and a derrickcrane being mounted. The Bergepanzer 3 was armed with two 7.92 mm MG34 machine-guns and had a top speed of 40 kmh and a range of 200 km. Research Bergepanzer 3
A derrick-crane is a kind of crane combining the advantages of the common derrick and those of the ordinary crane. The jib of this crane is fitted with a joint at the foot, and has a chain instead of a tension-bar attached to it at the top, so that the inclination, and consequently the sweep, of the crane can be altered at pleasure. Research Derrick-Crane
A derrick is a lofty, portable, temporary, crane-like structure consisting of a single post or pole, supported by stays and guys, to which a boom with a pulley or pulleys is attached, used in loading and unloading vessels, etc. They were invented in 1857 by Bishop for raising sunken vessels and named after the 17th century Tyburn hangman, Derrick. Research Derrick
Cricket is the English national summer game - although the English cricket team of the 1990s is an international joke. The modern day game seems to have evolved around the 16th century from earlier bat and ball games dating from the 13th century and assumed its present form, through evolution, in the 18th century. A picture in a manuscript from 1344 depicts a monkbowling a ball to another monk who is about to strike it with a staff or crutch known as a cric. The earliest mention of the word 'cricket' occurs in 1593 when John Derrick telling how attending the free school in Guildford 'he and his fellowes did run and play there at crickett and other plaies'.
Cricket is a team game played by two teams of 11 players each on a pitch of smooth grass. Two wickets of three stumps each are pitched fronting each other at a distance of about 22 yards apart, the stumps being upright rods stuck in the ground, and projecting 27 inches. On the top of each set of stumps are placed two small pieces of wood called bails. After the rival sides have tossed for the choice of either taking the bat or fielding, two men are sent to the wickets bat in hand. The opposite or fielding side are all simultaneously engaged; one (the bowler) being stationed behind one wicket for the purpose of bowling his ball against the opposite wicket, where his coadjutor (the wicket-keeper) stands ready to catch the ball should it pass near him; the other fielders are placed in such parts of the field as is judged most favourable for stopping the ball after it has been struck by the batsman or missed by the wicket-keeper.
It is the object of the batsman to prevent the ball delivered by the bowler reaching his wicket either by merely stopping it with his bat or by driving it away to a distant part of the field. Should the ball be driven any distance the two batsmen run across and exchange wickets, and continue to do so as long as there is no risk in being 'run out,' that is, of having the stumps struck by the ball while they are out of their position near the wickets. Each time the batsmen run between the wickets is counted as a ' run,' and is marked to the credit of the striker of the ball. If the batsman allows the ball to carry away a bail or a stump, if he knocks down any part of his own wicket, if any part of his person stops a ball that would have otherwise reached his wicket, or if he strikes a ball so that it is caught by one of the opposite party before it reaches the ground, he is 'out,' that is, he gives up his bat to one of his own side; and so the game goes on until all the men on one side have played and been put out. This constitutes what is called an 'innings.' The other side now take the bat and try to defend their wickets and make runs as their rivals did. Generally after two innings each have been played by the contestants the game comes to an end, that side being the victors who can score the greatest number of runs. Research Cricket
The Tobruk is an Australian heavy lift ship of 3300 tons displacement and a top speed of 18 knots. The Tobruk's design is an update of the British Sir Bedivere class and provides facilities for the operation of helicopters, landing craft, amphibians or side-carried pontoons for ship-to-shore movement. A special feature is the ship's heavy lift derrick system for handling heavy loads. The LSH is able to embark a squadron of Leopard 2 tanks plus a number of wheeled vehicles and artillery in addition to its troop lift. Bow and stern ramps are also fitted. The Tobruk carries two 20 knot waterjet LCVPs at davits. Helicopters can be operated from the well deck or the after platform. The Tobruk is equipped with comprehensive communications equipment and a minor hospital Research Tobruk
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