#uss iowa

[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

[burnertracfone]

大和 Iowa❤ by HimeYamato

#yamato #uss iowa #ship girl #office lady #yuri #kancolle

[lonestarbattleship]

The staff at Battleship Iowa has done something no battleship has done in 30+ years (no museum battleship has done, at least to my knowledge), rotating a turret!

"We made history about a month ago by turning the inner projectile ring in Turret I. Today, we topped that feat.

For the first time since the IOWA's decommissioning in 1990 and for the first time since 1992, a turret on an lowa Class battleship has been rotated.

This footage is just a tease of what we got. Stay tuned for more - including mind-blowing views from inside the turret that have never been seen on film before.

This evolution was the result of months of hard work and research by our team, as well as input from lowa Class battleship veterans. We make it look easy, but it's most definitely not."

Date: June 30 2023

#Battleship Iowa #USS Iowa (BB-61) #USS Iowa #Iowa Class #Battleship #Warship #Ship #Los Angeles #California #West Coast #June #2023 #video #my post #Youtube

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

USS Iowa was launched in 1942.

#uss iowa #warships #battleship #warship #us navy

[celticculture]

#uss midway #uss iowa #warship

[floridaboiler]

Happy National Siblings Day! This 1954 family portrait is from a rare occasion when all four sister Iowa-class battleships were together. From front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey. All the ships are now museums.

source - https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute

#National Siblings Day #April 10 #US Navy #USS Iowa #USS Wisconsin #USS Missouri #USS New Jersey

[supplyside]

USS Iowa, Panama Canal

#USS Iowa #Panama Canal #Panama #battleship #US Navy #military #infrastructure #canal

[nelc]

#cutaway #turret #battleship #USS Iowa

[defensenow]

#youtube #militarytraining #usmilitary #USS New Jersey #Naval Surface Warfare Center #Philadelphia BB-62 #Philadelphia Naval Shipyard #Naval Museum. #Battleship New Jersey #Naval Architecture #Navy Museum #USS New Jersey Museum #Military History #Philadelphia History #USS Iowa #Historic Ships #USS Wisconsin #Warships #Maritime History #USS Missouri #Naval Warfare #Naval History #Naval Ships #Battleships #Navy Ship #Philadelphia waterfront #Historic landmark #Ship museum #Travel #Historic ship

[ralfmaximus]

Battleship Iowa has two of these anchors, each weighing 30,000 lbs.

From the amazing Naval Gazing site.

#uss iowa #battleship

[burnertracfone]

High Tonnage by Raps

#uss iowa #personification #tugboat #giantess #ship girl #kancolle

[carlottaragazzalove]

Questa stupenda nave con la vista di poppa🗽🚢

#uss iowa

[lonestarbattleship]

"The battleship IOWA encountered the world's largest rubber ducky at the Port of Los Angeles during the Tall Ships Festival. The floating duck sculpture was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman."

Date: January 13, 2014

U.S. Naval Institute: link

#National Rubber DuckyDay #battleship IOWA #Battleship USS Iowa Museum #USS IOWA (BB-61) #USS IOWA #Iowa Class #Battleship #Warship #Ship #Museum Ship #Los Angeles #California #West Coast #January #2014 #my post

[radarsteddybear]

#battleships #US Navy #USS Iowa #USS New Jersey #USS Missouri #USS Wisconsin #poll #original post #I love battleships #I’ve seen them all #Iowa had an actual real-live dog named Victory (‘Vicky’) as a mascot #and has a bathtub in the captain’s quarters due to transporting FDR across the Atlantic during WWII #(he and Vicky got on GREAT) #Wisconsin had a doughnut shop #Missouri is where the Japanese formally surrendered at the end of WWII #and it also had a kamakazi crash into the edge of her top deck #still has a dent there #she’s moored at Pearl Harbor which is pretty cool #the beginning and end of the Pacific theater in one place

[stripesandrockers]

"Newly completed, the USS Iowa (BB-61) is inclined at the dry dock on 28 March 1943 at what was then known as the Bayonne Navy Yard in New Jersey opposite New York..."

#BB 61 #uss iowa

[what-marsha-eats]

From the mess hall on the USS Iowa

#uss iowa #cooking for a crowd #batch cooking #beef stew