1853 - USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill.1931 - Dirigible USS Los Angeles makes 10 hour flight out of NAS Lakehurst, NJ, carrying 207 persons, establishing a new record for the number of passengers carried into the air by a single craft…
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has approved Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif., as the commissioning location of Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) Dewey, the Navy's newest and most technologically advanced guided-missile destroyer.The event will be the first time a U…
1943 - In Battle in Empress Augusta Bay, U.S. cruisers and destroyers turn back Japanese forces trying to attack transports off Bougainville, Solomons.1968 - Operation Search Turn began in Mekong Delta.(Source: Navy News Service)
1775 - Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain.(Source: Navy News Service)
1814 - Launching of Fulton I , first American steam powered warship, at New York City. The ship was designed by Robert Fulton.1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.(Source: Navy News Service)
1864 - Steamer General Thomas and gunboat Stone River destroy Confederate batteries on Tennessee River near Decatur, Alabama.1882 - Orders issued for first Naval Attache (LCDR French Chadwick sent to London, England).(Source: Naval News Service)
1864 - LT William Cushing, USN, sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch.1922 - Navy League of U.S. sponsors first annual celebration of Navy Day to focus public attention on the importance of the U…
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1921 - In first successful test, a compressed air, turntable catapult, launches an N-9 seaplane.1922 - LCDR Godfrey deC. Chevalier makes first landing aboard a carrier (USS Langley) while underway off Cape Henry, Virginia.1942 - Battle of the Santa Cruz Island…
LCS2 Independence, the high-speed trimaran combatant ship being constructed by shipbuilder Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, as part of the General Dynamics Littoral Combat Ship Team, successfully completed a series of tests known as builder's trials on October 18 in the Gulf of Mexico…
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $79,452,144 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) to exercise an option for additional class services associated with the detail design and construction of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class destroyer…
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, a series of separate battles, begins with attacks on Japanese ships.1983 - A suicide truck bomber attacks the Marine barracks at Beirut airport, Lebanon killing 241 (220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 soldiers) 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada…
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded $7,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2100) for planned and growth supplemental work for the accomplishment of the fiscal year 2008 extended…
1846 - Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson of Philadelphia christens the sloop-of-war Germantown, the first U.S. Navy ship sponsored by a woman. 1951 - First of seven detonations, Operation Buster-Jangle nuclear test.1962 - President John F…
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy.1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright, USN and four Army officers at Cherchel…