Franklin Clay

Curator at the Battleship Missouri. University of Hawaii alumni, raised in Ewa Beach. Tweets on this account are my personal opinions.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is catapulting objects into the James River in Virginia to test its plane launching capabilities.

The footage was recently released by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), a ship building company.

The Kennedy features an electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) which makes it just the 2nd US aircraft carrier to have this advanced system.

The vehicles it launched in testing reached speeds of 150mph and experts estimate it will be able to launch jets at speeds of 240mph.

The Kennedy was launched in 2019 and has a price tag of $11.3 billion.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1898, an explosion sank USS Maine in Havana Harbor, killing 266 men. Tom, the "Senior Cat of the Navy," became a national celebrity after being found in the Maine's wreckage. He had singed fur and a wounded foot but quickly resumed his rat catching duties on another ship.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#RIP Pearl Harbor survivor Sterling Cale who passed away last month at the age of 102. Cale had been the last survivor living in Hawaii. On Dec. 7, 1941, he was serving as a hospital corpsman when the Japanese attacked. He was sent to Guadalcanal and later became a submariner.

[USS Arizona @USSArizona]

The death of our beloved ship USS Arizona and 1,177 of her crew. Remember the USS Arizona. Remember Pearl Harbor. #PearlHarbor82

[USS Arizona @USSArizona]

8:06 AM - The moment our great ship, the USS Arizona is destroyed killing most of her crew. #PearlHarbor82

[USS Arizona @USSArizona]

USS Arizona’s Band-USN Band #22 at Bloch Arena on the night of November 22, 1941. They would all die aboard the Arizona on the morning of December 7th. #PearlHarbor82 #FacesOfUSSArizona

[Franklin Clay @frankstah]

USS Decatur (DDG-73) rendering honors to @USSArizona

#PearlHarbor82 #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #PearlHarbor

[Franklin Clay @frankstah]

Mighty Mo at sunrise this morning. @USSMissouri

#PearlHarbor82 #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #PearlHarbor

[Franklin Clay @frankstah]

Sunrise over Battleship Row. @USSArizona

#PearlHarbor82 #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #PearlHarbor

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1942 during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a direct hit on the bridge of USS San Francisco killed or badly wounded almost all officers including RADM Daniel Callaghan and CAPT Cassin Young. Communications officer LCDR Bruce McCandless took command and saved the ship.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Egyptian blue is the oldest known artificial pigment. The color blue throughout human history has been one of the most cited, identifying it with royalty and divinity, due to its difficulty in obtaining it.

Blue pigments have been used since ancient times, but later than other pigments such as red, dark brown or ocre, which are more easily obtained naturally and are now used in art.
But the most cited blue pigment comes from minerals such as pencil, which are rare and therefore very expensive.

The largest lapislazuli deposits are in Afghanistan's Hindukush, where they are still operated with very similar procedures to those employed more than 3000 years ago.

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[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1925, the crew of a Navy seaplane attempting a non-stop flight from California to Hawaii had to land in the ocean after running out of fuel. Realizing that their flying boat was now just a boat, the crew used fabric from the wings to sail the plane for 450 miles to Kauai.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1945, FADM Nimitz visited ADM Fraser aboard HMS Duke of York on the eve of the Japanese surrender ceremony. Nimitz noted the visit was “partly on official business, partly because I like him, and mostly to get a Scotch and soda before dinner because our ships are dry.”

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD 1908, 500,000 Aussies turned out to welcome the arrival of the Great White Fleet to Sydney. The reception was so warm that hundreds of sailors went on unauthorized absence. USS Kansas stayed extra days to round up stragglers, offering a $10 bounty on every sailor returned.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1945, FADM Halsey ordered the 20 carriers, 9 battleships, 25 cruisers and 79 destroyers of TF 38 and the British Pacific Fleet to perform high-speed maneuvers near the coast of Japan so that the awesome fleet could be documented with aerial photos in Operation Snapshot.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

USS Missouri (BB-63) firing at Iraqi targets with her 16-inch forward main battery during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The "Mighty Mo" fired a total of 783 sixteen-inch shells and launched 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles during the campaign.
#FirepowerFriday

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1281, Japan is saved as storms scatter a 4,000-ship Mongol invasion armada. Japanese will call it "kamikaze" or "the divine wind." The name will later be applied to suicide pilots of World War Two.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

In 1979, USS Donald B. Beary literally caught a Soviet crew with their pants down when the frigate passed by an unsuspecting Soviet warship at swim call. As undressed Soviets scrambled to general quarters, the American CO signaled "wish you a pleasant voyage."
#SeaStorySaturday

[Franklin Clay @frankstah]

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