1926-An airways division, headed by a chief engineer, was set up as a part of the Lighthouse Service, its work covering the examination of airways and emergency landing fields and the erection and maintenance of aids to air navigation.1943…
1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.1874 - Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of…
1899-First Navy wireless message was sent via the Lighthouse Service Station at Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey.1943-CGC E.M. Wilcox foundered off Nags Head, NC. One crewman was lost.1949-The rank of commodore, established in 1943 as a wartime measure…
1800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.1944 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) lands supplies and evacuates some people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.1946 - U.S. Government announces that U.S. Navy units…
1898-The American steamer, Toledo with the barge Shawnee in tow, became water-logged 25 miles southwest of the station at Ship Canal, MI. Her crew boarded Shawnee and sailed to the canal. There they engaged the steamer D. F. Rose to tow Toledo…
1944 - USS Narwhal (SS-167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia on long distance non-stop, non-refueling flight that ends October 1…
1850-An Act of Congress (9 Stat. L., 500, 504) provided for a systematic coloring and numbering of all buoys for, prior to this time, they had been painted red, white, or black, without any special system. The act 'prescribed that buoys should…
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race1944 - Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support…
1916-The beginning of lighthouse work in the United States was commemorated, when a bronze tablet was unveiled at the Boston Light Station on the 200th anniversary of its establishment.1959-A US Navy P5M seaplane that had ditched off the Oregon coast was located through radio contact by a U…
1941 - In first successful U.S. Navy escort of convoys during World War II, Navy escort turn over HX-150 to British escorts at the Mid-Ocean Meeting Point. All ships reach port safely.1957 - In project Stratoscope, Office of Naval Research…
1943-The Coast Guard-manned USS LST-167 and the USS LST-334 with a partial Coast Guard crew landed troops during the invasion of Vella Lavella in the central Solomons despite fierce resistance from the Japanese defenders. Japanese aircraft attacked the invasion fleet…
1918 - Ensign David S. Ingalls, USNR, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.1944 - 5th Fleet carrier aircraft attack Japanese in Visayas,…
1967-Coho Salmon Fishing Disaster- A severe squall through the Frankfort River Platte area of northern Lake Michigan. Twenty-five-foot waves generated by the squall caught off guard an estimated 1,000 small boats fishing for Coho Salmon. Between…
1779 - Captain John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis.1931 - LT Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs on board USS Langley while underway…
1897-The sloop yacht, Cuyahoga broke adrift from moorings and drifted out 4 1/2 miles NE of the Plum Island, MA station. Surfmen sailed out and brought her back, turning her over to her owner.1943-Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasion of Finschafen…
