Schwaben's sister ship, Wittelsbach

SMS Schwaben was the fourth of five ships of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy. Built at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven, she was laid down in 1900 and completed in April 1904. Possessing a main battery of four 24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns, the ship had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Schwaben spent her early career as a gunnery training ship or participating in large-scale fleet exercises. At the start of World War I in August 1914, the sister ships were mobilized as IV Battle Squadron. Schwaben served in the North Sea and then the Baltic Sea until the threat from British submarines forced her to withdraw in 1916. For the remainder of the war, she was an engineering training ship for navy cadets. After the war, she was retained as a depot ship for F-type minesweepers in the Baltic from 1919 until June 1920, but was stricken from the navy list in March 1921 and sold for scrap. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)

Mamie Martin and her daughter

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• ... that Andrew Hastie had to order his subordinates not to cut off the hands of corpses?

Earthquake damage in East Manggarai, Indonesia

• A magnitude-7.7 earthquake (damage pictured) strikes off the coast of Flores, Indonesia, causing at least 70 deaths.
• Former premier of China Zhu Rongji dies at the age of 97.
• A solar eclipse causes totality from Siberia to Iberia.
• A ferry capsizes on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, leaving at least 94 people dead.

August 19: Afghan Independence Day; Qixi Festival in China (2026)

The Luck of Cumberland

• 1759 – Seven Years' War: Having damaged several French vessels, British ships pursued the remainder of the fleet to Lagos, Portugal, and continued the battle there in violation of Portuguese neutrality.
• 1905 – In a ceremony officiated by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, The Luck of Cumberland (pictured) was presented to HMS Cumberland.
• 1950 – The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the Korean War.
• 2002 – Second Chechen War: A Russian Mil Mi-26 was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-defense system near Khankala, killing 127 people in the deadliest helicopter crash in history.
• 2017 – Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.