October 111776 - Revolutionaries fight the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, N.Y. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters.1824 - Marquis de Lafayette…
October 61884 - Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, RI (General Order 325).1940 - Fourth group of 8 U.S. destroyers involved in Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities at Halifax…
October 41821 - LT Robert F. Stockton sails from Boston for Africa to carry out his orders to help stop the international slave trade.1943 - Aircraft from USS Ranger sink 5 German ships and damage 3 in Operation Leader, the only U.S. Navy…
September 301800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.1944 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) lands supplies and evacuates some people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.1946 - U.S. Government announces that U.S…
1944 - USS Narwhal (SS-167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia on long distance non-stop, non-refueling flight that ends October 1…
Engineering failures in the marine industry certainly cost time and resources to correct and, sadly, sometimes resulting in loss of life. At his President’s Day Lecture, Professor John Carlton FREng, Professor of Marine Engineering, City…
In recognition of her upcoming centennial, the tug Delaware is now being restored to her 1912 appearance in full public view at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. Delaware is a rare example of a typical early 20th century wooden river tug…
September 231779 - Captain John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis.1931 - LT Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs on board USS Langley while underway…
September 221776 - John Paul Jones in Providence sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.1943 - U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.1989 - After Hurricane Hugo…
September 211858 - Sloop Niagara departs Charleston, SC, for Liberia with African slaves rescued from slave ship.1923 - Asiatic Fleet completes mission of aiding earthquake victims in Japan.1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress…
September 191915 - SECNAV Josephus Daniels organizes the Naval Consulting Board to mobilize the scientific resources of U.S. for national defense.1957 - Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean…
September 161854 - CDR David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific.1917 - Navy Department authorizes establishment of 16 Naval air stations abroad1922 - Commander Halsey Powell in USS Edsall…
Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc. Names Tacoma Terminal In Memory of Legendary Leader. Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc.’s (TOTE) Tacoma Terminal has been named the Robert P. Magee Marine Terminal in memory of and tribute to TOTE’s legendary leader…
1923 - In disaster at Point Honda, Calif., seven destroyers run aground through faulty navigation.1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims a limited national emergency and increases enlisted strength in the Navy and Marine Corps; also authorizes the recall to active duty of officers…
The heroism of merchant mariners who evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is featured in a new video released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration…
