A couple of weeks later, in mid-August, the ship departed south-eastward, anchoring at Hilo Bay off Hawaii's Big Island, before continuing to the south and reaching Tahiti in mid-September.

The natural resonant period of Hilo Bay is about thirty minutes.

That meant that every second wave was in phase with the motion of Hilo Bay, creating a seiche in the bay.

Eventually they deemed the Hilo water tank to be at 19-43-54. 526 N 155-03-26. 463 W, which would make it 339191. 7 meters from Oahu West Base on the Clarke 1866 spheroid.

Because of this they were sent to Camp Tarawa near Hilo, Hawaii for further training.

While the greatest number of deaths occurred in Hilo, the school building at Laupāhoehoe was inundated, and twenty students and four teachers were drowned.

Other such multi-job songs were: " Round the Corn ( er ), Sally ," " Fire Down Below ," " Johnny Come Down to Hilo ," " Hilo, Boys, Hilo ," " Tommy's Gone Away ," " The Sailor Likes His Bottle-O ," " Highland Laddie ," " Mudder Dinah ," " Bully in the Alley ," " Hogeye Man ," " Good Morning, Ladies, All ," " Pay Me the Money Down ," " Alabama, John Cherokee ," " Yankee John, Stormalong ," and " Heave Away ( My Johnnies ).

Shanties like “ Johnny Come Down to Hilo ” were more or less standardized through popular dissemination.

For the inaugural run in 1949, every female passenger on the train was given a corsage of " silver " and orange orchids that were specially flown in from Hilo, Hawaii.

In 1979 KHON and its Maui satellite KAII-TV were sold to Western-Sun Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Cowles Communications ; the Hilo satellite KHAW-TV was sold to Simpson Communications but leased back to Cowles / Western Sun.

More advanced systems were developed in the wake of the April 1, 1946 ( caused by the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake ) and May 23, 1960 ( caused by the 1960 Valdivia earthquake ) tsunamis which caused massive devastation in Hilo, Hawaii < sup > source needed </ sup >.

On the west side of the island is Keahole Point lighthouse ; NGS data predicts the lighthouse's lat-lon by the stars will come out to 19. 7244 N 156. 0787 W. Based on the astro lat-lons the distance from the Hilo water tank to the Keahole Point lighthouse calculates to be 108. 8 km, but the actual distance turns out to be 105. 5 km.

Scheduled service began a month later on November 11 using Sikorsky S-38s with a flight from Honolulu to Hilo, via intermediary stops on Molokai and Maui.

On January 16, 1996, sparks from a welder ignited insulation which smoldered, generating noxious smoke that killed Marvin Arruda, 52, Ricky Del Rosario, 38, and Warren K. " Kip " Kaleo, 36, and sent twenty-six other workers to the hospital in Hilo.

On July 2, 2011, the telescope operator in Hilo noted an anomaly from the top unit of the telescope.

Since December 13, 2010 UKIRT is operated remotely from Hilo in a minimalist operation mode ( no observers present ).

The airline was founded as charter carrier Trans-Pacific Airlines by publisher Ruddy Tongg as a competitor to Hawaiian Airlines, commencing operations on July 26, 1946, with a single World War II-surplus Douglas C-47 ( DC-3 ) on a flight from Honolulu to Maui and Hilo.

It is common to find phrases from minstrel songs of the late 1830s and 1840s in many shanties, like " A Long Time Ago ," " Jamboree ," " Johnny Come Down to Hilo ," or " Johnny Bowker.

Malcolm Arnold's " Three Shanties " for woodwind quintet ( 1952 ) develops motifs from " Drunken Sailor ," " Boney Was a Warrior ," and " Johnny Come Down to Hilo.

Category: People from Hilo, Hawaii

* December 27 – U. S. Army Air Corps bombers from Wheeler Field bomb lava tubes to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa that is threatening Hilo, Hawaii.

* For the second time, U. S. Army Air Corps bombers from Oahu bomb lava tubes to try to prevent lava from an eruption of Mauna Loa from reaching Hilo in the Territory of Hawaii.

1925: The Honolulu Star-Bulletin bought the Tribune-Herald in Hilo, operating it from afar until the Big Island paper was divested to Donrey Media in 1964.

On April 28, 1988, Tompkins was co-piloting a Boeing 737-200 from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Patricia Fukuda " Pat " Saiki ( born May 28, 1930 ) is an American politician and former school teacher from Hilo in the State of Hawai ' i. She served as a Republican in Congress from 1987 to 1991 and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration under President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

Saiki, a Japanese American, graduated from Hilo High School in 1948 and received her bachelor's degree from the University of Hawai ' i at Manoa in 1952.

Yamashiro died from pneumonia at Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii, on May 24, 2011 aged 69.

As a result, Hilo suffered worse damage than any other place in Hawaii, with the tsunami / seiche reaching a height of 26 feet along the Hilo Bayfront, killing 96 people in the city alone.

26 American students from Harvard University, California State University San Bernardino, Boston College, the University of South Carolina, Indiana University, and the University of Hawaii Hilo joined the program to study Mandarin, Taiwan's Medium & Small Enterprises, Taiwan's High-Tech Industry, and Taiwan's Societies & Cultures.

** A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii ; 173 are killed, thousands injured.

Hilo High School is a public, co-educational high school of the Hawaii State Department of Education, and serves grades nine through twelve.

The idea for a high school is attributed to Josephine Deyo, principal of Hilo Union School.

The weak public interest eventually grew stronger as the public realized the benefits from a high school in Hilo, Hawaii.

At Hilo large numbers of people ran out to inspect the amazing spectacle of the denuded beach.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Such equipment has been installed at Hilo, Midway, Attu and Dutch Harbor.

Set up a precise theodolite ( such as the Wild T4 ) next to the water tank near the airport at Hilo, Hawaii, planning to measure the tank's latitude and longitude by the stars.

Monthly estimated potential evapotranspiration and measured pan evaporation for two locations in Hawaii, Hilo and Pahala.

* Anuario Social de la Habana 1939, ( Luz – Hilo S. A .)

Hina of Hilo, the Hawaiian Helen, was abducted by Prince Kaupeepee of Molokai.

* Charivari Creek, south of Hilo ( a French folk custom in which the community gave a noisy, discordant mock serenade, also pounding on pots and pans, at the home of newlyweds.

It has become increasingly a bedroom community for Hilo.

Laupāhoehoe is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States located in the District of North Hilo.

" The Cultural Thread "/" El Hilo ", an exhibit highlighting this industry, is on display at Union City's Park Performing Arts Center.