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• Naval History – Nov. 22

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  1914 – The title “Director of Naval Aeronautics” is established. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval History - Nov. 22 [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 21

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  1918 – U.S. battleships witness surrender of German High Seas fleet at Rosyth, Firth of Forth, Scotland, to U.S. and British fleets. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval History - Nov. 21 [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 20

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  1856 – Cdmr. Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians. 1917 – USS Kanawha (AO 1), Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France. 1933 – Navy crew (Lt. Cmdr. Thomas G. W. Settle and Maj. Chester [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Day in Naval History – Nov. 19

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  1813- Capt. David Porter claims Marquesas Islands for the United States. 1943 – Carrier force attacks bases on Tarawa and Makin begun. 1943 – USS Nautilus (SS 168) enters Tarawa lagoon in first submarine photograph reconnaissance mission. 1961 – At the request of the president of the Dominican Republic, U.S. Naval Task Force [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 18

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  1890 – USS Maine, the first American battleship, is launched. 1922 – Cdmr. Kenneth Whiting in a PT seaplane, makes first catapult launching from aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV 1), at anchor in the York River. 1962 – USS Currituck (AV 7) rescues 13 Japanese fishermen from their disabled fishing boat Seiyu [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 17

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  1917 - USS Fanning (DD 37) and USS Nicholson (DD-52) sink first enemy submarine, U-58, off Milford Haven, Wales. 1924 – USS Langley (CV 1), first aircraft carrier, reports for duty. 1941 – Congress amends Neutrality Act to allow U.S. merchant ships to be armed. Navy’s Bureau of Navigation directs Navy personnel [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 16

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  1776 – First salute to an American flag (Grand Union flag) flying from Continental Navy ship Andrew Doria, by Dutch fort at St. Eustatius, West Indies. 1856 – Barrier Forts reduction began at Canton China. 1942 – Navy’s first Night Fighter squadron (VMF(N)-531) established at Cherry Point, N.C. 1963 – President John F. [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 15

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  1882 – Lt. Cmdr. French Chadwick reports to American Legation in London as first naval attache. 1942 – Although U.S. lost several ships in the naval battle of Guadalcanal, Naval Force under Rear Adm. Willlis Lee, USS Washington (BB 56), turns back Japanese transports trying to reinforce Guadalcanal. The Japanese never [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 14

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  1846 – Naval forces capture Tampico, Mexico. 1910 – Civilian Eugene Ely pilots first aircraft to take off from a ship, USS Birmingham (CL 2) at Hampton Roads, Va. He lands safely on Willoughby Spit, Norfolk, Va. 1941 – Order to withdraw Marines at Shanghai, Peiping, and Tientsin, China. 1944 – Carrier aircraft [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 13

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  1776 – Captain John Paul Jones in Alfred with brig Providence captures British transport Mellish, carrying winter uniforms later used by Washington’s troops. 1942 – Loss of USS Juneau (CL 52) during Battle of Guadalcanal results in loss of the five Sullivan Brothers. 1943 – 5th Fleet carriers begin long range night [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 12

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  1912 – Lt. Theodore Ellyson makes first successful launching of an airplane (A-3) by catapult at the Washington Navy Yard. 1940 – Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Harold R. Stark submits memorandum to Secretary of the Navy on four plans if U.S. enters war. He favors the fourth one, Plan Dog, [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 11

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  1870 – Navy expedition to explore the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, southern Mexico, commanded by Capt. Robert W. Shufeldt, enters the Coatzacoalcos River to begin a survey for possible interoceanic canal. Support provided by USS Kansas and USS Mayflower. 1918 – Armistice ends World War I. 1920 – Lenah S. Higbee becomes the [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 10

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  1775 – Congress votes to raise two battalions of Continental Marines, establishing the Marine Corps. 1941 – U.S.-escorted convoy WS-12, carrying 20,000 British troops to Singapore, sails from Halifax. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval History - Nov. 10 [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 09

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  1921 – USS Olympia arrives at the Washington Navy Yard from France carrying the body of the Unknown Soldier for internment at Arlington National Cemetery. 1950 – Task Force 77 makes first attack on the Yalu River bridges. In first engagement between MIG-15 and F9F jets (USS Philippine Sea, CV 47), [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 08

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  1861 – Capt. Charles Wilkes seizes two Confederate diplomats from the British steamer Trent, causing an international controversy with Great Britain (known as the Trent Affair). 1942 – Operation Torch (Allied landings in French Northwest Africa). American forces land at Casablanca. French naval forces attack U.S. Navy ships and 13 French [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 07

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  1861 – Naval forces under Rear Adm. Samuel F. DuPont capture Port Royal Sound, S.C. 1881 – Naval Advisory Board submits report recommending the new ships in the U.S. Navy be constructed of steel instead of iron. 1973 – War Powers Resolution becomes law. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval History - Nov. 07 [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 06

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  1851 – U.S. Navy expedition under command of Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon, on a mission to explore the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, reaches Iquitos in the jungle region of the upper Amazon after their departure from Lima, Peru. 1941 – On Neutrality Patrol, USS Omaha (CL 4) and USS [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 05

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  1775 – Commodore Esek Hopkins appointed as commander in chief of the Continental Navy. 1915 – In AB-2 flying boat, Lt. Cmdr. Henry C. Mustin makes first underway catapult launch from a ship, USS North Carolina, at Pensacola Bay, Fla. 1917 – German submarine torpedoes USS Alcedo off French coast. 1923 – Tests [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 04

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  1967 – Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA 215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf. 1971 – USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN 636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 03

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  1853 – USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill. 1931 – Dirigible USS Los Angeles (ZR 3) makes 10-hour flight out of NAS Lakehurst, N.J., carrying 207 persons, establishing a new record for the number of passengers carried into the air by a single craft. 1943 – Battleship Oklahoma (BB 37), [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 02

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  1943 – In Battle in Empress Augusta Bay, U.S. cruisers and destroyers turn back Japanese forces trying to attack transports off Bougainville, Solomons. 1968 – Operation Search Turn began in Mekong Delta. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval History - Nov. 02 [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• Naval History – Nov. 01

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  1841 – “Mosquito Fleet” commanded by Lieutenant Commander J. T. McLaughlin, USN, carries 750 Sailors and Marines into the Everglades to fight the Seminole Indians. 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt places Coast Guard under jurisdiction of Department of the Navy for duration of national emergency. 1967 – Operation Coronado IX began [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Naval History – Oct. 31

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  1941 – German submarine U-552 sinks USS Reuben James (DD 245), which was escorting Convoy HX 156, with a loss of 115 lives — First U.S. ship lost to enemy action in World War II. 1943 – Lt. Hugh D. O’Neill of VF(N)-75 destroys a Japanese aircraft during night attack off [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 30

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  1775 – Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies. 1799 – William Balch becomes the Navy’s first commissioned chaplain. 1990 – Two Sailors are killed when a steam line ruptures in the boiler room of USS Iwo Jima (LPH 2) in the Persian Gulf. Posted in Navy Tagged: Naval [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 29

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  1814 – Launching of Fulton I, first American steam powered warship, at New York City. The ship was designed by Robert Fulton. 1955 – Ships of the 6th Fleet join U.S. military aircraft in evacuating American citizens from Egypt, Israel and Syria when war breaks out in the Middle East. 1980 – [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 28

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  1864 – Steamer General Thomas and gunboat Stone River destroy Confederate batteries on Tennessee River near Decatur, Ala. 1882 – Orders issued for first naval attache (Lt. Cmdr. French Chadwick sent to London). 1933 – The development of the PBY Catalina flying boat is begun by awarding the contract to the Consolidated [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 27

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  1864 – Lt. William Cushing sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch. 1922 – Navy League of the United States sponsors first annual celebration of Navy Day to focus public attention on the importance of the U.S. Navy. That date was selected because [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 26

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  1921 – In first successful test, a compressed-air, turntable catapult, launches a N-9 seaplane. 1922 – Lt. Cmdr. Godfrey de Chevalier makes fhe first landing aboard a carrier, USS Langley (CV 1), while underway off Cape Henry, Va. 1942 – USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost and USS Enterprise (CV 6) was badly [...]

  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 25

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  1812 – USS United States (Capt. Stephen Decatur) captures HMS Macedonian. 1924 – Airship USS Shenandoah (ZR 1) completes round-trip transcontinental cruise that began Oct. 7. 1944 – During Battle of Leyte Gulf in Battle of Surigao Straits, U.S. battleships execute the maneuver of “crossing the tee” of the Japanese forces. In [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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• Naval History – Oct. 24

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  1944 – In an air-sea battle in the Sibuyan Sea, carrier aircraft attack Japanese Center Force. 1958 – USS Kleinsmith (APD 134) evacuates U.S. nationals from Nicaro, Cuba. 1962 – Atlantic Fleet begins quarantine operations to force Soviet Union to agree to remove ballistic missiles and long range bombers from Cuba. Posted in [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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