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Krab

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Krab 

a Russian submarine minelayer.

The Krab was commissioned in July 1915 and was the first submarine minelayer in the history of shipbuilding. It had a displacement of 740 tons and an underwater speed of up to 13 km per hour (7 knots); it was armed with a 75-mm gun, two machine guns, and two minelaying units and had a crew of 50 men. In 1915 and 1916 it successfully performed minelaying operations in the regions of the Bosporus and Varna. The German light cruiser Breslau was blown up in 1915 by mines set by the Krab in the Bosporus. In 1919 the Krab was sunk by the interventionists near Sevastopol’.
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He was a gentleman before he was gazetted, so, when the Empress announced that "Gentleman-Cadet Robert Hanna Wick" was posted as Second Lieutenant to the Tyneside Tail Twisters at Krab Bokhar, he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; and there was joy in the house of Wick, where Mamma Wick and all the little Wicks fell upon their knees and offered incense to Bobby by virtue of his achievements.
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