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Bluebird Toys. Country. United Kingdom. Availability. 1992–1996. Mighty Max was a series of toys that were manufactured by Bluebird Toys PLC in the UK in 1992. The toys were similar to the earlier Polly Pocket toyline, but these toys were marketed primarily towards young boys. In Canada and the United States, they were distributed by Irwin ...
The typical installation was ten 20 cm/50 guns; although Tone-class cruisers carried eight while Furutaka and Aoba-class cruisers carried six. After modernization, Akagi and Kaga carried only six, divided in three casemates per side, after the removal (during the 1935 reconstruction) of the four guns in two turrets on both ships placed on the ...
USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commander Jesse J. Taylor (1925–1965), a naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism in the Vietnam War.
3-inch/50-caliber gun. The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50 = 150 in or 3.8 m). Different guns (identified by Mark numbers) of this caliber were used ...
One of the last messages sent from the doomed Titan submersible during its June 2023 voyage to the Titanic wreckage was "all good here," according to a presentation from a U.S. Coast Guard hearing ...
The Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 4 ft 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (1,416 mm) The Washington Metro 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (1,429 mm), the gauge is 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6 mm) less than 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) The trams in Nuremberg for one time nominally used 1,432 mm (4 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 in), the gauge is 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3 mm) less than 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm)
This is a list of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most popular gauge being 3 ft gauge. [1][2] Some of the more famous 3 ft gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii.
Track gauge. A junction on the underground freight railway network built by the defunct Chicago Tunnel Company. A steam train on a revived segment of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine. A Crown Metal Products -built train on Hersheypark's Dry Gulch Railroad in Pennsylvania in 1966. A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railways ...