1861 - Saratoga, member of U.S. African Squadron, captures slaver sloop Express1933 - Commissioning of USS Ranger, first true aircraft carrier1959 - USS Galveston fires first Talos surface-to-air missile(Source: Navy News Service)
1964- A U.S. Coast Guard ice skiff rescued 25 persons from an ice flow that had broken loose from the shore near Camp Perry, Ohio. A similar rescue took place almost simultaneously at St. Clair Shores, Michigan when another Coast Guard ice skiff…
1813 - USS Hornet, Captain James Lawrence, captures HMS Peacock1968 - Task Force Clearwater established in I Corps(Source: Navy News Service)
1822- Congress authorized the Revenue Cutter Service to protect the natural environment by preventing 'scoundrels' from cutting live oak, needed for cutters and Navy vessels, on Florida public lands.1837-Congress called for an inspection…
1795 - U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday.1919 - Launching of Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man1944 - Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan…
1943- The USS Campbell, CG, under the command of CDR James A. Hirshfield and assigned to the international escort group A-3 that was escorting Convoy ON-166 through the North Atlantic, engaged numerous submarine contacts during a running battle across the sea…
1865 - RADM Porter's gunboats' bombardment cause surrender of Wilmington, NC .1870 - After arriving on USS Nipsic, and supported by USS Guard and USS Nyack, the Darien Expedition, commanded by CDR Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., begins active…
1845- Lighthouse establishment transferred to Revenue Marine Bureau. Metal buoys were first put into service. They were riveted iron barrels that replaced the older wooden stave construction.1862- Congress authorized cutters to enforce the law forbidding importation of Chinese 'coolie' labor…
1814 - USS Constitution captures British brig Catherine1945 - Marines with naval gunfire support land on Iwo Jima; island secured 16 March.(Source: Navy News Service)
1842- The House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting the Committee on Commerce to make an inquiry into the expenditures of the Lighthouse Establishment since 1816. This was to explore the possibility of cutting down on expenses…
1814 - USS Constitution captures British brig Catherine1945 - Marines with naval gunfire support land on Iwo Jima; island secured 16 March.(Source: Navy News Service)
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a redacted copy of its report on Project Azorian. This was the secret 1973-4 operation that involved raising a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. In March 1968, the submarine…
1944- Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasions of Eniwetok and Engebi, Marshall Island.1956- The CGC Casco saved 21 persons from a US Navy seaplane that was forced to ditch 100 miles south of Bermuda and delivered both the survivors and the disabled aircraft to the Naval Air Station at St…
1864 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic 1942 - First Construction Battalion (Seabees) arrive Bora Bora1944 - Carrier aircraft strike Japanese fleet at Truk, sinking ships and destroying aircraft(Source: Navy News Service)
1926- Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to 'acquire a site at New London, Connecticut, without cost to United States, and construct thereon buildings for the United States Coast Guard Academy at a total cost not to exceed $1,750…