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This is the description of USS Franklin from Journal of Hezekiah Loomis: a frigate of 74 guns, launched with bowsprit, drawing 13.6 forward and 17.2 aft. When equipped for sea her lower deck ports amidships were within 4 feet of the water. In commission, 1815; 188 feet long; 50 feet beam; 20 feet hold. [2]
The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, ... (The gap was also defended by the guns of Battery A, 1st Kentucky Artillery. The ...
William J. Donovan demonstrated the pistol to President Franklin D. Roosevelt inside the Oval Office.During World War II, the HDM was adopted for use by the OSS. [1] It later was used by CIA agents and US special forces units in the Korean and Vietnam War and supposedly up to the Gulf War.
The owners of the Franklin Gun Shop pleaded guilty after an ATF investigation revealed nearly 150 missing weapons and false records.
The newly commissioned Franklin departing Norfolk in February 1944. The keel of Franklin was laid down on 7 December 1942 in Shipway 11, the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and she was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, in Virginia, on 14 October 1943, sponsored by Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, an American naval officer who was the Director of the WAVES.
Colt produced 151,700 revolvers during the war as well as 13,000 Maxim-Vickers machine guns and 10,000 Browning machine guns with an additional 100,000 under subcontract to other companies. Since Auto-Ordnance had no tooling for production of the newly developed Thompson submachine gun, John T. Thompson , in August 1920, entered into contract ...
Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide.The company traces its roots to two companies, both founded in 1892: Franklin W. Olin's Equitable Powder Company and the Mathieson Alkali Works.
HMS Canopus was an 84-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy.She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Franklin, but was captured after less than a year in service by the British fleet under Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.