Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Jan. 16 beginning a five to seven day transit to Haiti, where more than 800 military and civilian aid workers aboard the ship will provide relief in response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation Jan…
Austal-designed and built Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Independence has officially joined the operating forces of the United States Navy following a commissioning ceremony held near Austal’s Mobile, Ala. facility. Thousands of Navy officials…
1840 - LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast(Source: Navy News Service)
1911 - First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.1962 - After a flash fire in the Persian Gulf on Danish tanker, Prima Maersk, burned a crewman, USS Duxbury Bay transfers a Navy doctor to help the Danish crewman…
1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero1815 - HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President1863 - Navy General Order 4, Emancipation Proclamation1943 - In first submarine resupply mission, USS Gudgeon lands 6 men…
1865 - Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC1964 - USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown(Source: Navy News Service)
1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British Volunteer1848 - Attack on Sloop Lexington, San Blas, Mexico1953 - Landings tested on board USS Antietam, first angled deck carrier(Source: Navy News Service)
Ship-shape following 12 weeks and $18m worth of maintenance and preservation work in Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard’s largest drydock facility, the Battleship Mo. returned Jan. 7 to her home pier near the USS Arizona Memorial along Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row…
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $6,862,387 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) to exercise an option for additional systems engineering and class logistics services associated with…
1863 - CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston1944 - Aircraft from USS Block Island make first aircraft rocket attack on German submarine(Source: Navy News Service)
1847 - Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)(Source: Navy News Service)
1960 - Launch of first fully-guided flight of Polaris missile at Cape Canaveral (flew 900 miles)1967 - Mobile Riverine Force begins arriving at Vung Tau, Vietnam(Source: Navy News Service)
1916 - First enlisted flight training class at Pensacola, FL1942 - Japanese capture 11 Navy Nurses in Manila, Philippines1967- Operation Deckhouse V begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam.1996 - USS Hopper, named for RADM Grace Hopper, commissioned.(Source: Navy News Service)
On Jan. 1, 2010, the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) patrols the Gulf of Aden in support of counter-piracy operations. Chosin is the flagship for Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia…
1855 - USS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops1875 - CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama. Route followed 30 years later.1943 - USS Helena (CL-50) fired first proximity fused projectile…
