#uss franklin

[lonestarbattleship]

USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington after repairs.

Note: "she had been repainted in Ms. 21 camouflage; two lattice radio masts abaft the island had been removed; three quad 40's had been added starboard amidships, just under the island."

Date: January 31, 1945

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#USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) #USS FRANKLIN #Essex Class #Aircraft Carrier #Carrier #Warship #ship #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #Puget Sound Navy Yard #Puget Sound #Washington #West Coast #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #Military History #January #1945 #my post

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Jaylah's House by thefirstfleet

#Star Trek #Star Trek: Beyond #Kelvin Timeline #USS Franklin #Federation #Starfleet #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #thefirstfleet

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USS Franklin sketch by Warren Martineck

#uss franklin #star trek beyond #star trek aos #warren martineck #star trek cards

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Trek: Beyond - USS Franklin Med Kit Concept Art by John Eaves

#Star Trek #Star Trek: Beyond #Star Trek: AOS #Federation #USS Franklin #Sci-Fi #Med Kit #Concept Art #John Eaves

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[lonestarflight]

"Alan Shepard's 105th Sortie with F4U-4 on USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (CVB-42)."

Date: October 1948

Naval History and Heritage Command: link

#Vought F4U Corsair #F4U #fighter #USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) #USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) #USS Franklin D. Roosevelt #Midway Class #Aircraft Carrier #United States Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #October #1948 #my post #post war

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Christmas Dinner, Aboard the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 25, 1946, Norfolk, Virginia.

#WWII #Santa #Christmas #dinner #menu #USS Franklin Roosevelt #food #Norfolk #VA #Virginia #aircraft carrier #Navy

[clove-pinks]

War of 1812 Wednesday: A Glorious First of June

I periodically bring up Sir John Franklin’s status as a War of 1812 veteran, but I have assumed that it’s more of a piece of trivia than anything else—a footnote in his career even if he took a bullet to his shoulder as part of raiding party at the Battle of Lake Borgne. 

Franklin was a midshipman on HMS Intrepid during the circumnavigation of Australia, he was at the Battle of Trafalgar in the thick of the action (narrowly missing a French sniper’s bullet), and of course he became famous for his polar exploits long before the 1845 Franklin Expedition. I didn’t think that Franklin would be dwelling much on the War of 1812, especially not late in his career in the 1840s. But I was wrong!

Invitation card to a ball aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, hosted by James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier, 1841 (Derbyshire Record Office).

Sir John Franklin was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land when Erebus and Terror wintered there in 1841, and of course he attended the ball. Although the date of 1st June appears to be a coincidence and not selected for any special significance, noted Franklinheads @explorersaremadeofhope @kljjfnotes​ and Olga Kimmins of The Thousandth Part brought it to my attention that it acquired a Glorious First of June title.

The usual “Glorious First of June” in the Royal Navy is the Fourth Battle of Ushant in 1794, but Sir John Franklin had a different battle in mind:

[all the company continued standing while the national anthem was performed by the full Band. The next toast in succession by Captain Ross was “His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor,” to which Sir John Franklin responded, by observing that the day set apart for the festive occasion by Captain Ross, was one that Englishmen might well be proud; it was the anniversary of one of the most splendid naval victories that adorned the pages of our history—it was a day rendered historical by the battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake—and it was also a day considered sacred to science by the discovery by the gallant officer who had proposed his health, of the North Magnetic Pole.]

Franklin hears the first of June and immediately goes to HMS SHANNON VS. USS CHESAPEAKE?! I was not expecting that at all, and have give Franklin more credit for his taste.

The celebrated engagement during which H.M.S. “Shannon” captured the American frigate “Chesapeake”, 1st June 1813, Thomas Whitcombe (Wikimedia Commons).

#War of 1812 Wednesday #war of 1812 #age of sail #sir john franklin #james clark ross #.uss chesapeake #hms shannon #glorious first of june #north magnetic pole #royal navy #naval history #polar #thomas whitcombe #naval battle #art #the sea #military history

[jimclassicstoycollection]

Lately I've been rearranging some of my toy collections around and I found a better place for some of my Eaglemoss Star Trek ships. This isn't all of them they are some of my favorites.

I even found space for my old di cast metal Galoob TNG Enterprise.

#toys #star trek #eaglemoss #gene roddenberry #uss Enterprise #nx-01 #defiant #ds9 #tng #federation #franklin #galoob #mirror universe #iss enterprise #ss Enterprise

[jesslovesboats]

I guess it's time to start moving some content from twt over here! For those who don't know me, I'm a public librarian with a special interest in polar and nautical history, and I love nothing more than connecting readers with good books. I've managed to convert some friends to my way of thinking, and one of them coined the phrase "sad boat books" to describe the types of books that I'm always reading and recommending. Here is my first list of sad boat books-- I can personally vouch for all of them!

New to sad boat? Start here to see if it’s for you!

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Terra Nova, A GREAT first expedition!

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston

Robert Falcon Scott Journals- Captain Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott

“I Love Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Shackleton’s Boat Journey by Frank Worsley

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander

“I Hate Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield

Roald Roald Roald!

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown

The South Pole by Roald Amundsen

The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford*

*DISCLAIMER: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only!

The Franklin Expedition

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Erebus by Michael Palin

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Expedition edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson

Non-polar sad boats

The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Sometimes a sad balloon can be a sad boat

The Expedition by Bea Uusma

The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson

Karluk/Wrangel Island, the expeditions of my heart

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven

The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett

The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor’s Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance by Mensun Bound

In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!

#reader's advisory #sad boat #sad boat books #polar exploration #nautical history #read this

[lonestarbattleship]

USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) during inclining tests at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.

Date: January 27, 1945

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#USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) #USS FRANKLIN #Essex Class #Aircraft Carrier #Carrier #Warship #ship #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #Puget Sound Navy Yard #Puget Sound #Washington #West Coast #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #Military History #incline tests #January #1945 #my post

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Saboteur by Jetfreak-7

#Star Trek #AOS #USS Franklin #Freedom Class #Federation #Starfleet #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #Jetfreak-7

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USS Franklin A from Star Trek Fleer Command

#uss franklin #star trek aos #star trek video games #star trek fleet command

[cipher-fresh]

Best scene in sci-fi history is the crew of the Enterprise and Jaylah on the USS Franklin destroying Krall’s drones by playing Sabotage by the Beastie Boys during Star Trek: Beyond (2016). Argue with the wall

#updates from cipher #star trek

[captain-price-unofficially]

Saving the USS Franklin after being hit by two kamikazes off Okinawa, March 1945. Cruiser Pittsburg comes alongside to take off unessential personnel.

#wwii #naval #battle of okinawa #volcano and ryukyu islands campaign

[usaac-official]

An F2H-2P of VC-62 in flight over USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42), 27 January 1953

#us navy #usn #F2H #Banshee #warbird #aviation history #VC 62