1842 - Midshipman Philip Spence, Boatswains Mate Samuel Cromwell, and Seaman Elisha Small of the Bainbridge
class brig USS Somers are executed for mutiny. Spencer was the son of then-Secretary of War, John Canfield Spencer.
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1918 - President Woodrow Wilson sails on board the transport George Washington for the Paris Peace Conference.
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1918 - President Woodrow Wilson sails on board the transport George Washington for the Paris Peace Conference.
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1862 - During the Civil War, boats from the gunboat Mahaska and the converted tug General Putnam capture and destroy several fine Confederate boats, a schooner and two sloops in branches of Severn River, Md., and bring back schooners Seven Brothers and Galena.
The first USS Mahaska was a wooden, double-ender, sidewheel steamer of the third rate in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for Ioway Chief Mahaska.
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The Gun-boats 'Galena' and 'Mahaska' shelling the Rebels at Harrison's Landing, July 1, 1862
Line engraving, based on a sketch by an officer of the Navy, published in Harper's Weekly, Volume 6, July-December 1862, page 470.
USS Galena is at left and USS Mahaska is at right. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
1862 - During the Civil War, boats from the gunboat Mahaska and the converted tug General Putnam capture and destroy several fine Confederate boats, a schooner and two sloops in branches of Severn River, Md., and bring back schooners Seven Brothers and Galena.
The first USS Mahaska was a wooden, double-ender, sidewheel steamer of the third rate in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for Ioway Chief Mahaska.
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The Gun-boats 'Galena' and 'Mahaska' shelling the Rebels at Harrison's Landing, July 1, 1862
Line engraving, based on a sketch by an officer of the Navy, published in Harper's Weekly, Volume 6, July-December 1862, page 470.
USS Galena is at left and USS Mahaska is at right. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1830 — Following the recommendation of Lieutenant Louis M. Goldsborough, the Navy establishes the Depot of Charts and Instruments at Washington, DC, and places it under his command. Later renamed the U.S. Naval Observatory, it relocated from the original site in the Foggy Bottom section of the nation’s capital to an area above Georgetown, where it still operates today. A home built at the observatory for the Superintendent of Charts and Instruments later became the official home of the Chief of Naval Operations, and since 1974 has been the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.
1830 — Following the recommendation of Lieutenant Louis M. Goldsborough, the Navy establishes the Depot of Charts and Instruments at Washington, DC, and places it under his command. Later renamed the U.S. Naval Observatory, it relocated from the original site in the Foggy Bottom section of the nation’s capital to an area above Georgetown, where it still operates today. A home built at the observatory for the Superintendent of Charts and Instruments later became the official home of the Chief of Naval Operations, and since 1974 has been the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.
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1796 — In his last annual message to Congress, President George Washington expresses his support for the gradual creation of a navy, which he states is indispensable to protect commerce and secure respect for the nation abroad.
1796 — In his last annual message to Congress, President George Washington expresses his support for the gradual creation of a navy, which he states is indispensable to protect commerce and secure respect for the nation abroad.
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1864 - While operating on the Roanoke River at Rainbow Bluff, N.C., the side-wheel gunboat USS Otsego strikes two Confederate mines. The steam tugboat USS Bazely rushes to help Otsego, but she also hits a mine. Both vessels eventually sink. During this operation, the side-wheel gunboat Wyalusing provides fire cover while boats dragged for mines.
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This print depicts the U.S. Navy tug Bazely striking a mine while going to the assistance of USS Otsego, near Jamestown, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River, 9 December 1864. Otsego, which had just been sunk by other mines, is in the left center background. USS Wyalusing is in the foreground, providing covering fire as boats drag for mines nearby.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century.
1938 - A prototype shipboard radar, XAF, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory, is installed on USS New York (BB-34). Installation on U.S. Navy vessels begins in 1940 and proves fruitful in detecting the enemy in World War II.
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This print depicts the U.S. Navy tug Bazely striking a mine while going to the assistance of USS Otsego, near Jamestown, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River, 9 December 1864. Otsego, which had just been sunk by other mines, is in the left center background. USS Wyalusing is in the foreground, providing covering fire as boats drag for mines nearby.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century.
1938 - A prototype shipboard radar, XAF, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory, is installed on USS New York (BB-34). Installation on U.S. Navy vessels begins in 1940 and proves fruitful in detecting the enemy in World War II.
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1816 - USS Chippewa ran aground on an uncharted reef at the North West of Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands and sank without loss of life.
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1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by a controlled mine.
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1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by a controlled mine.
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1814 — With two of his ships already lost, a flotilla of five gunboats under the command of Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones is defeated by a superior British force numbering 42 armed ships’ boats on the waters of Lake Borgne near New Orleans, Louisiana. On board Jones’s flagship, Gunboat Number 156, the crew beats back two attempts by the British to board it, with a wounded Jones calling out orders while lying on the deck during the second attempt. The gunboat is eventually captured along with the remainder of the flotilla, which opens the way for the British to attack New Orleans.
1864 — Union gunboats support General William T. Sherman’s advance against Savannah by capturing Forts Beaulieu and Rosedew in Ossabaw Sound, which form the outer defenses of the city. (14–21 December)
1814 — With two of his ships already lost, a flotilla of five gunboats under the command of Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones is defeated by a superior British force numbering 42 armed ships’ boats on the waters of Lake Borgne near New Orleans, Louisiana. On board Jones’s flagship, Gunboat Number 156, the crew beats back two attempts by the British to board it, with a wounded Jones calling out orders while lying on the deck during the second attempt. The gunboat is eventually captured along with the remainder of the flotilla, which opens the way for the British to attack New Orleans.
1864 — Union gunboats support General William T. Sherman’s advance against Savannah by capturing Forts Beaulieu and Rosedew in Ossabaw Sound, which form the outer defenses of the city. (14–21 December)
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1864 — Demonstrating the joint operations so prevalent in the western theater during the Civil War, Union gunboats of the Mississippi Squadron engage Confederate batteries along the Cumberland River while supporting General George Thomas’s army in the battle of Nashville. (15–16 December)
1864 — Demonstrating the joint operations so prevalent in the western theater during the Civil War, Union gunboats of the Mississippi Squadron engage Confederate batteries along the Cumberland River while supporting General George Thomas’s army in the battle of Nashville. (15–16 December)
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1862 – Launch of USS Catskill, a monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She continued to serve the Navy after the war's end until decommissioned in 1898 after the end of the Spanish–American War.
Officers posing on deck and atop the turret, while the ship was in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, in 1865. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Edward Barrett, is seated on the turret, in center. Note awning spread over the turret and conning tower, ship's bell mounted on the turret side, marks from Confederate shot hits on the turret armor, and additional armor plate laid on the deck. Guns on field carriages are 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzers. Turret gun to the right is a XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. The other turret gun is a XV-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View in the ship's engine room, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note decorations painted on some parts of the machinery. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View of the ship's anchor well, with its cover removed, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note anchor chain running out of hause hole and around a roller inside the well, and other chain wrapped around the forward deck bitts. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1862 – Launch of USS Catskill, a monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She continued to serve the Navy after the war's end until decommissioned in 1898 after the end of the Spanish–American War.
Officers posing on deck and atop the turret, while the ship was in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, in 1865. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Edward Barrett, is seated on the turret, in center. Note awning spread over the turret and conning tower, ship's bell mounted on the turret side, marks from Confederate shot hits on the turret armor, and additional armor plate laid on the deck. Guns on field carriages are 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzers. Turret gun to the right is a XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. The other turret gun is a XV-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View in the ship's engine room, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note decorations painted on some parts of the machinery. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View of the ship's anchor well, with its cover removed, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note anchor chain running out of hause hole and around a roller inside the well, and other chain wrapped around the forward deck bitts. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1944 - Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Halsey's Typhoon struck the United States Pacific Fleet
Adm. Halsey's 3rd Fleet encounters a typhoon northeast of Samar. Destroyers USS Hull (DD 350), USS Spence (DD 512), and USS Monaghan (DD 354) capsized and went down with practically all hands, while a cruiser, five aircraft carriers, and three destroyers suffered serious damage. Approximately 790 officers and men were lost or killed, with another 80 injured.
Adm. Halsey's 3rd Fleet encounters a typhoon northeast of Samar. Destroyers USS Hull (DD 350), USS Spence (DD 512), and USS Monaghan (DD 354) capsized and went down with practically all hands, while a cruiser, five aircraft carriers, and three destroyers suffered serious damage. Approximately 790 officers and men were lost or killed, with another 80 injured.
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1870 - Coxswain William Halford, the lone survivor of five, reaches Hawaii after a month at sea in a 22-foot
boat and seeks help for the crew of the side-wheel steamer USS Saginaw, wrecked near Midway Island.
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A gig in which survivors of USS SAGINAW sailed to Hawaii in 1871 to obtain aid for their shipmates.
The flagstaff from which the KILAUEA was sighted; Camp Saginaw on the day of the rescue.
boat and seeks help for the crew of the side-wheel steamer USS Saginaw, wrecked near Midway Island.
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A gig in which survivors of USS SAGINAW sailed to Hawaii in 1871 to obtain aid for their shipmates.
The flagstaff from which the KILAUEA was sighted; Camp Saginaw on the day of the rescue.
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1776 — The British frigate Pearl captures the brig Lexington off the Delaware Capes. The Royal Navy captain removes the officers from the ship, but leaves 70 crewmen on board guarded by a prize crew. Luring the British below decks with a promise of rum, the Continental sailors recapture their ship and sail her to Baltimore, Maryland.
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1776 — The British frigate Pearl captures the brig Lexington off the Delaware Capes. The Royal Navy captain removes the officers from the ship, but leaves 70 crewmen on board guarded by a prize crew. Luring the British below decks with a promise of rum, the Continental sailors recapture their ship and sail her to Baltimore, Maryland.
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