(San Diego Air and Space Museum) Sanis E. (“Robby”) Robbins was born at Matthews, Indiana, 17 September 1898. He was the sixth of seven children of William S. Robbins, a real estate agent, and Sarah Ellen Brokaw Robbins. Robbins enlisted as a Private, United States Army, at Camp ...
I found some amazing ships at the Pacific Maritime Group in San Diego, who run tugboats and giant barges, service oil platforms, and do stuff for the Navy. It’s serious business. I just knocked on their door and said, ‘Hey, can I borrow one of your gigantic ships? But they’d se...
Left to right: CTD technician Kyle McQuiggan, Research Technician Keith Shadle and multi-talented Data Analyst Joseph Gum work together to repair the trace metal CTD rosette’s connection to the ship. Image: Alex Fox The trace metal CTD rosette’s electrical connection to the ship via its ...
The DNA extractions for both isolates were quality checked at Macrogen in Kyoto, Japan via a Victor 3 fluorometer and gel electrophoresis prior to library construction. Both genomes were sequenced using an Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Illumina, San Diego, CA) and PacBio RS II (Pacific Biosciences, Men...
Midway and Coral Sea served into the 1990s, with Midway becoming a museum ship in San Diego. The hard-used FDR (uncharitably called “Filthy Dirty Rusty” late in her career) was sold in 1977.Battle of Okinawa: AKA Operation Iceberg
—Literature Available Campbell Shipyard, San Diego, Calif., has been awarded contracts to construct three more 1,500-toncapacity "Super Pacific" Class tuna purse seiners in addition to two already on order. The 257- by 45- by 26-foot vessels have been ordered by a foreign fishing compan...
and each offers excellent prospects for growth. The international shipments tilt strongly to imports. That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego. The bottlenecks did lasting damage. Fearing future strikes and slowdo...
CACK Comes Back: Several riders help Vermin out by bringing Cack back from Anchorage to San Diego. They only dumped the bike a couple of times. Age Against the Machine: Cack Conckers Copper Canyon: Vermin solos with Cack into Copper Canyon and discovers that the charging system on ...
Navy officials said the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship undergoing maintenance and upgrades at a port in San Diego, was put out last Thursday. Reaching temperatures up to 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit (about 650 degrees Celsius), it melted aluminum and incinerated wiri...