1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses…
1802-Revenue Marine had a total of 38 commissioned officers in service: 9 captains, 10 first mates, 9 second mates and 10 third mates.1983-The 605-foot collier Marine Electric capsized and sank off Virginia during a gale. Three of the 34…
1945 - USS Batfish (SS-310) sinks second Japanese submarine within three days1947 - First launching of guided missile (Loon) from a submarine, USS Cusk(Source: Navy News Service)
1973-Due to 'Vietnamization', the draw-down of U.S. forces in Vietnam, the post of Senior Coast Guard Officer, Vietnam was discontinued.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1862 - SecNav directs formation of organization to evaluate new inventions and technical development which eventually led to National Academy of Science.1971 - U.S. and USSR sign a treaty prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.(Source: Navy News Service)
1840- A House resolution was introduced to inquire into transferring the Revenue Marine to the Navy. 1940-CGCs Bibb and Duane became the first vessels to make radio transmissions as 'weather stations.'1992- Retired Coast Guard Chief Journalist Alex Haley…
1862 - Union gunboats destroy Confederate ships at Elizabeth City, NC1900 - Appointment of first naval governor of Guam, Commodore Seaton Schroder1960 - USS Sargo (SSN-583) surfaces at North Pole(Source: Nay News Service)
1965-A commercial DC-7 with 84 persons on board exploded in midair off Jones Beach, Long Island. Despite an extensive search by seven Coast Guard cutters, six Coast Guard aircraft, and a US Navy tug, no survivors were located. Only nine bodies…
1958-A U.S. Navy P5M aircraft enroute from San Juan to Norfolk lost one engine and changed course to the island of San Salvador, British West Indies, to attempt a night ditching. AIRSTA Miami sent up a Coast Guard UF amphibian plane, later reinforced by a second amphibian…
1862 - Joint amphibious force capture Roanoke Island, key to Albemarle Sound1890 - USS Omaha sailors and marines assist Hodogary, Japan in subduing large fire(Source: Navy News Service)
Commander, Submarine Forces Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC), Rear Adm. Douglas McAneny announced that a sunken vessel located in the Balabac Strait area of the Philippines is in fact the World War II submarine USS Flier (SS 250). “I am honored to announce that…
1882- The schooner Mary L. Vankirk, bound for Philadelphian from South Creek, Pamlico Sound, NC. carrying a crew of five men, encountered heavy weather. She lost sails and sprung a leak, so that before long she became water-logged and almost unmanageable…
1854 - Dedication of first chapel built on Navy property, Annapolis, MD1941 - Chief Nurse Marion B. Olds and Nurse Leona Jackson, Navy, arrive on Guam.1971 - Moonwalk by CAPT Alan B. Shepherd, Jr. USN, Commander of Apollo 14 and CDR Edgar D…
1859- U.S. signs 'Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation' with Paraguay at Asuncion after the revenue cutter Harriet Lane, as part of a US Navy expedition, forced the opening of the Paraguay and Parana Rivers.1863- Commissioned officers…
1779 - John Paul Jones takes command of Bonhomme Richard1959 - Keel laying of USS Enterprise, first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, Newport News, VA(Source: Navy News Service)