1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins appointed to Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy.1915 - In AB-2 flying boat, LCDR Henry C. Mustin makes first underway catapult launch from a ship, USS North Carolina, at Pensacola Bay, FL.1917 - German submarine torpedoes USS Alcedo off French coast…
1984: The CGC Northwind seized the P/C Alexi I off Jamaica for carrying 20 tons of marijuana, becoming the first icebreaker to make a narcotics seizure.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
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.(Source: Navy News Service)
883-The keeper and crew of the Smith’s Island Station, Virginia (Fifth District), saw a small schooner flying a signal near Isaac Shoal, five miles away from the station. They went out to her and found on board the captain of a sloop that wrecked the night before several miles from land…
1853 - USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill.1931 - Dirigible USS Los Angeles makes 10 hour flight out of NAS Lakehurst, NJ, carrying 207 persons, establishing a new record for the number of passengers carried into the air by a single craft…
1820-The Revenue cutter Louisiana captured five pirate vessels during a cruise from Florida to Cuba.1881-A rowboat with two men and a young girl was going down the Manistee River towards the harbor capsized about a hundred feet abreast of Station No…
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.(Source: Navy News Service)
1956-CGC Chincoteague manning Ocean Station Delta in the North Atlantic, received a distress message that the German freighter Helgs Bolten was taking on water and wished to abandon ship as soon as possible. After reaching the scene some hours later…
1775 - Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain.(Source: Navy News Service)
1883-At a quarter before 4 o’clock In the morning the two surfmen on patrol from the Plum Island Station (Second District), below Newburyport, Massachusetts, discovered a vessel ashore on the south breaker at the entrance of Newburyport Harbor…
1814 - Launching of Fulton I , first American steam powered warship, at New York City. The ship was designed by Robert Fulton.1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.(Source: Navy News Service)
1919-Congress passed the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the Volstead Act, on this date. The Volstead Act authorized the enforcement of the 18th Amendment, ratified on 29 January 1919. The Act authorized the Coast…
1864 - Steamer General Thomas and gunboat Stone River destroy Confederate batteries on Tennessee River near Decatur, Alabama.1882 - Orders issued for first Naval Attache (LCDR French Chadwick sent to London, England).(Source: Naval News Service)
1997- The crew of the CGC Baranof confiscated two .50-caliber sniper rifles, ammunition and other military supplies that were allegedly to be used in an assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro. Four Cuban exiles were arrested…
1864 - LT William Cushing, USN, sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch.1922 - Navy League of U.S. sponsors first annual celebration of Navy Day to focus public attention on the importance of the U…
