1921 - In first successful test, a compressed air, turntable catapult, launches an N-9 seaplane.1922 - LCDR Godfrey deC. Chevalier makes first landing aboard a carrier (USS Langley) while underway off Cape Henry, Virginia.1942 - Battle of the Santa Cruz Island…
1818-The RC Monroe captured the armed brig Columbia inside the Virginia Capes. Columbia had been 'cut out' of a Venezuelan fleet by pirates.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, a series of separate battles, begins with attacks on Japanese ships.1983 - A suicide truck bomber attacks the Marine barracks at Beirut airport, Lebanon killing 241 (220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 soldiers) 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada…
1853-The English ship Western World grounded off Spring Lake, New Jersey, during a gale with about 600 persons on board. Everyone was rescued using equipment at the nearby station.1960-Early in the morning, SS Alcoa Corsair and SS Lorenzo…
1846 - Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson of Philadelphia christens the sloop-of-war Germantown, the first U.S. Navy ship sponsored by a woman. 1951 - First of seven detonations, Operation Buster-Jangle nuclear test.1962 - President John F…
1971-Alaska Senator Mike Gravel criticized the punishment of 18 crewmen of CGC Confidence for showing support for Greenpeace and asked the Commandant, Admiral Chester Bender, to investigate.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy.1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright, USN and four Army officers at Cherchel…
1892-After ten years of difficult and costly construction, the St. George Reef Lighthouse, built on a rock lying six miles off the northern coast of California, midway between Capes Mendocino and Bianco, was first lighted.1920-The Superintendent…
1824 - U.S. Schooner Porpoise captures four pirate ships off Cuba.1944 - Seventh Fleet lands over 60,000 Army troops on Leyte, Philippines while Japanese aircraft attack.1952 - Task Force 77 establishes ECM Hunter/Killer Teams of 2 ECM…
1881-The sloop Zulu Chief with four passengers and a crew of two men struck the bar off Hog Island Inlet, Virginia at a point about half a mile from the beach. The accident occurred at 11 o’clock am in plain view of the crew of Station No. 9…
1843 - CAPT Robert Stockton in Princeton, the first screw propelled naval steamer, challenges British merchant ship Great Western to a race off New York, which Princeton won easily1915 - Establishment of Submarine Base at New London, Connecticut…
1790-Contract entered into for the construction of the 'first' of the 10 revenue cutters, Massachusetts, at Newburyport, Massachusetts.1952-A Merchant Marine Detail was established at Yokohama, Japan to handle increased merchant marine problems occurring there as a result of the Korean Conflict…
1885 - CAPT Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College1891 - Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile.1940 - 5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax…
1846-USRC McLane ran aground while attempting to cross the bar of the River Alvarado during the Mexican War.2001- On October 15, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had anthrax in it…
1917 - USS Cassin (DD-43) torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off coast of Ireland. In trying to save the ship, Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram becomes first American sailor killed in World War I and later is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism…
