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1816 — A peace treaty is signed between the United States and Algiers ending the Barbary Wars.
“Constitution leads Preble’s Squadron off Tripoli, 1804.” Painting by John Landry. Navy Art Collection, NH-72615-KN.
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1816 — A peace treaty is signed between the United States and Algiers ending the Barbary Wars.
“Constitution leads Preble’s Squadron off Tripoli, 1804.” Painting by John Landry. Navy Art Collection, NH-72615-KN.
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1826 - Cptn. Thomas Catesby Jones of USS Peacock and King Kamehameha negotiate first treaty between Hawaii and a foreign power.
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1862 – Launch of the first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel steamer by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine.
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1826 - Cptn. Thomas Catesby Jones of USS Peacock and King Kamehameha negotiate first treaty between Hawaii and a foreign power.
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1862 – Launch of the first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel steamer by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine.
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1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
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On the Western Rivers during the Civil War, with an ice boat tied up alongside her port side.
Photographed by Acting Assistant Surgeon George Holmes Bixby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, USS Red Rover.
Moored to a Western Rivers' shoreline, during the Civil War. Note awning spread over the ship's foredeck,
and bell at the front of her superstructure.
Photographed by Acting Assistant Surgeon George Holmes Bixby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, USS Red Rover.
Line engraving after a drawing by Theodore R. Davis, published in Harper's Weekly, January-June 1863, depicting
a scene in the ward. Red Rover served as the U.S. Navy's hospital ship on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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On the Western Rivers during the Civil War, with an ice boat tied up alongside her port side.
Photographed by Acting Assistant Surgeon George Holmes Bixby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, USS Red Rover.
Moored to a Western Rivers' shoreline, during the Civil War. Note awning spread over the ship's foredeck,
and bell at the front of her superstructure.
Photographed by Acting Assistant Surgeon George Holmes Bixby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, USS Red Rover.
Line engraving after a drawing by Theodore R. Davis, published in Harper's Weekly, January-June 1863, depicting
a scene in the ward. Red Rover served as the U.S. Navy's hospital ship on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1814 – War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. It was the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's
makeshift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions contributing to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
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1862 - During the Civil War, the ironclad river gunboat USS Baron De Kalb returns after a five-day Yazoo River mission, where the
gunboat burns trapped steamers, captures and destroys large quantities of enemy equipment while also taking several prisoners.
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makeshift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions contributing to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
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1862 - During the Civil War, the ironclad river gunboat USS Baron De Kalb returns after a five-day Yazoo River mission, where the
gunboat burns trapped steamers, captures and destroys large quantities of enemy equipment while also taking several prisoners.
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A Look at USS Constitution's 2015-2017 Dry Docking and Restoration
Click on the links for more details. Some don't work, but others have lots of information,
Click on the links for more details. Some don't work, but others have lots of information,
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Nice find Randi.
Very interesting to read inc the links.
Wish I could have worked on her.
Very interesting to read inc the links.
Wish I could have worked on her.
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1812 - USS Constitution, Commodore William Bainbridge, captured and burnt HMS Java, Cptn. Henry Lambert, off the Brazilian coast
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1942 - USS Wasmuth eventually sinks, 35 miles off Scotch Cape, the southwest point of Unimak Island, Aleutians, two days after a pair
of her depth charges exploded during a gale. USS Ramapo comes alongside in the heavy seas and heroically rescues Wasmuths crew.
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1942 - USS Wasmuth eventually sinks, 35 miles off Scotch Cape, the southwest point of Unimak Island, Aleutians, two days after a pair
of her depth charges exploded during a gale. USS Ramapo comes alongside in the heavy seas and heroically rescues Wasmuths crew.
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1862 - USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC
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It depicts the ship as she appeared before angled plating was added to the base of her pilothouse.
Line engraving, published by Caldwell & Co., New York. Drawn by J. Seitz and engraved by Ten Eyke.
Courtesy of George H. Stegmann, New York. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862.
The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns visible, is at left, with the
armored pilothouse beyond. Note dents in turret armor (far left) from hits by Confederate heavy guns. Officers
standing at right are Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (with arms folded) and Acting Volunteer
Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson.
This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the
two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is
holding a telescope. Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret. Courtesy
of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Officers on deck by her armored gun turret, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, on 9 July 1862.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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It depicts the ship as she appeared before angled plating was added to the base of her pilothouse.
Line engraving, published by Caldwell & Co., New York. Drawn by J. Seitz and engraved by Ten Eyke.
Courtesy of George H. Stegmann, New York. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862.
The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns visible, is at left, with the
armored pilothouse beyond. Note dents in turret armor (far left) from hits by Confederate heavy guns. Officers
standing at right are Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (with arms folded) and Acting Volunteer
Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson.
This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the
two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is
holding a telescope. Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret. Courtesy
of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Officers on deck by her armored gun turret, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, on 9 July 1862.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1800 - Action of 1 January 1800
The Action of 1 January 1800 was a naval battle of the Quasi-War that took place off the coast of present-day Haiti, near the island of Gonâve in the Bight of Léogâne. The battle was fought between an American convoy of four merchant vessels escorted by the United States naval schooner USS Experiment, and a squadron of armed barges manned by Haitians known as picaroons.
USS EXPERIMENT (1799-1801). Attacked by eleven armed pirate boats in the Caribbean, 1 January 1800.
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The Action of 1 January 1800 was a naval battle of the Quasi-War that took place off the coast of present-day Haiti, near the island of Gonâve in the Bight of Léogâne. The battle was fought between an American convoy of four merchant vessels escorted by the United States naval schooner USS Experiment, and a squadron of armed barges manned by Haitians known as picaroons.
USS EXPERIMENT (1799-1801). Attacked by eleven armed pirate boats in the Caribbean, 1 January 1800.
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Blockading ship USS Quaker City captures sloop Mercury carrying despatches emphasizing desperate plight of the South.
Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume 1, depicting the ship firing on a Confederate battery in
Lynn Haven Bay, near Cape Henry, Virginia, probably in mid-1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume 1, depicting the ship firing on a Confederate battery in
Lynn Haven Bay, near Cape Henry, Virginia, probably in mid-1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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1945 — The first contingent of WAVES arrives in Hawaii. Eventually 4,009 women serve there, the only post outside the continental United States to which women are permanently assigned during World War II.
1945 — The first contingent of WAVES arrives in Hawaii. Eventually 4,009 women serve there, the only post outside the continental United States to which women are permanently assigned during World War II.
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1841 – Launch of the first USS Missouri, a 10‑gun side‑wheel frigate, one of the first steam warships in the Navy, was begun at New York Navy Yard
Burning at Gibraltar, 26 August 1843. Lithograph by Thayer & Co. The original print bears the text Conflagration of the U.S. Steam Frigate Missouri, Gibraltar, Aug. 26th 1843. At the moment the order was given to abandon the ship. From a drawing taken on the spot by Geo. B. Souder. Collection of the New York Naval Shipyard. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Burning at Gibraltar, 26 August 1843. Hand-colored lithograph by T.G. Dutton, after a drawing by E. Duncan based on a sketch made on the spot by Lt. G.P. Mends. Published by Day & Haghe, Lithographer to the Queen. Another copy of this print (Photo Number NH 47227-KN, which is not colored) contains the text: This view represents the falling of the mainmast and the explosion of the last gun, which occurred at the same moment. everybody had quitted the vessel about five minutes previous to this. On the spankerboom is an unfortunate Bear which perished in the flames. For Captn. Newton and the Officers of the late United States Steam Frigate Missouri this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant. Edmund Fry Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Burning at Gibraltar, 26 August 1843. Lithograph by Thayer & Co. The original print bears the text Conflagration of the U.S. Steam Frigate Missouri, Gibraltar, Aug. 26th 1843. At the moment the order was given to abandon the ship. From a drawing taken on the spot by Geo. B. Souder. Collection of the New York Naval Shipyard. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Burning at Gibraltar, 26 August 1843. Hand-colored lithograph by T.G. Dutton, after a drawing by E. Duncan based on a sketch made on the spot by Lt. G.P. Mends. Published by Day & Haghe, Lithographer to the Queen. Another copy of this print (Photo Number NH 47227-KN, which is not colored) contains the text: This view represents the falling of the mainmast and the explosion of the last gun, which occurred at the same moment. everybody had quitted the vessel about five minutes previous to this. On the spankerboom is an unfortunate Bear which perished in the flames. For Captn. Newton and the Officers of the late United States Steam Frigate Missouri this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant. Edmund Fry Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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