Do big rifles count?

[Hooyah DeepSea]

Being a historian, I occasionally delve into the 'big guns', and highly recommend visiting the coastal defense gun locales if you can.

Now, does anybody have any of these, because mine are a little rusty, or were a little rusty. They are called tap rivets, and these used to hold armor plate on one of the turret assemblies from the battleship, USS ARIZONA.

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[Certaindeaf]

Tappy tap tap!

 

[Xaevian]

I can see it now...

If only some joker wouldn't have removed those tap rivets holding the armor plates on the Arizona, maybe things could've been different.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

It don't work that way, but . . .

After the attack on Pearl and the sinking of ARIZONA, the aft two turrets were later turned over to the Army as coastal defense installations. These tap rivets were acquired from one of those sites, in the 1980's, after the turrets were disassembled.

 

[Xaevian]

Just tugging your bow line, dolphin. It is a cool piece of history, for sure.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

If you look close, you can make out the A, R, I, of the ships name plate. As you might imagine, not a lot of people get to see this up close.
This was taken back in the '80's; the visability there is a lot better now.