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…
1910 - Commissioning of USS Michigan (BB-27), the first U.S. dreadnought battleship.1863 - Blockading ship USS Quaker City captures sloop Mercury carrying despatches emphasizing desperate plight of the South.1989 - Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F…