1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan1862 - Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and Congress1945 - Phyllis Daley becomes first African-American Ensign, Navy Nurse Corps1958 - Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is decommissioned…
According to the SS United States Conservancy awareness campaign, the America’s national flagship, the SS United States, is in imminent danger of being bought by scrappers. This great vessel, which still holds the trans-Atlantic speed record…
1881- The crew of Life-Saving Station No. 10, Ninth District (Louisville), won acclaim with a dangerous rescue at the wreck of James D. Parker, a well-known river boat lost in the Indiana chute of the Ohio Falls. She was a stern-wheel steamer…
1942 - Name 'Seabees' and insignia officially authorized1943 - USS Bogue begins first anti-submarine operations by escort carrier.1960 - USS Newport News (CA-148) and personnel from Port Lyautey complete emergency relief operatons at Agadir…
1907- Congress appropriated $30,000 for installing wireless telegraph on not more than 12 revenue cutters.1915- Secretary of the Treasury was authorized by Congress to detail cutters to enforce anchorage regulations in all harbors, rivers…
1911 - Appropriation of first funds for experiments in naval aviation.1925 - Congress authorizes restoration of USS Constitution.1947 - Operation Highjump, air operations in Antarctica, ends.1963 - Navy Hercules aircraft completes…
1819- Congress authorized the revenue cutters to protect merchant vessels of United States against piracy and to seize vessels engaged in slave trade. The cutters Louisiana and Alabama were built shortly thereafter to assist in the government's efforts against piracy…
1776 - First amphibious landing operation. Continental naval squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins lands Sailors and Marines, commanded by Captain Samuel Nicholas, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, capturing urgently-needed ordnance and gunpowder…
1792- Congress authorized the revenue cutters to fire on merchant ships that refused to 'bring to.' 1799- Congress authorized that 'Revenue Cutters shall, whenever the President of the United States shall so direct, cooperate with the Navy…
1859 - Launch of Saginaw at Mare Island, first Navy ship built on West Coast of U.S.1867 - Birthday of Civil Engineer Corps.1899 - Act of Congress creates the rank Admiral of the Navy for George Dewey.1973 - Women begin pilot training to U.S. Navy.(Source: Navy News Service)
1876- Nuova Ottavia, an Italian vessel, grounded near the Jones Hill North Carolina Life-Saving Station. The rescue attempt by the crew of that station resulted in the loss of seven surfmen, the first deaths in the line of duty since the service began using paid crews in 1870…
1942 - U-656 becomes the first German submarine of World War II to be sunk by Naval air (VP-82).1954 - 1st of 6 detonations, Operation Castle nuclear test.(Source: Navy News Service)
1793- Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, submitted to the Senate the first list of cutters with stations, officers names, rank and dates of commission.1984-Five people died, three were injured, and 22 people rescued when…
1811 - Congress authorizes first naval hospital1913 - Approval of experimental wind tunnel for Navy1944 - Sue Sophia Dauser, Superintendent of the Navy's Nurse Corps is first woman in Navy to receive rank of Captain.(Source: Navy News Service)
1799- President Adams authorized by Congress to place revenue cutters in the naval establishment.1825- Congress empowered the Revenue Marine to enforce state quarantine laws.1942- Wartime port security delegated to Coast Guard by Executive Order 9074…