1846 - Sailors and Marines from U.S. sloop Cyane capture San Diego.1918 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, visits Queenstown, Ireland.1945 - U.S. warships bombard Hamamatsu, Japan.For more information about naval history…
1915 - Sailors and Marines land in Haiti to restore order.1916 - Navy establishes a Code and Signal Section which initially worked against German ciphers and tested the security of communications during U.S. naval training maneuvers.1926…
1953 - Korean War armistice signed at Panmunjon, Korea and Korean cease-fire went into effect at 10:00 PM.For more information about naval history, visit the Naval Historical Center Web site at www.history.navy.mil.
1779 - Amphibious expedition against British in Penobscot Bay, Me.1863 - U.S. Squadron bombards Fort Wagner, N.C.1866 - Rank of Admiral created. David G. Farragut is appointed the first Admiral in the U.S. Navy.1898 - Landing party from armed yacht Gloucester occupies Guanica…
South African Arts International announces plans to mount a photo exhibition during the WMRC 2011 in Shanghai, China next month. 'Greeks are the guardians of the sea. Their long history of saving lives at sea is extraordinary', said Victor Mooney from his home in Queens…
1863 - USS Wyoming battled Japanese warlord's forces.1939 - Appointment of Rear Adm. Richard Byrd as commanding officer of 1939-1941 Antarctic Expedition.1943 - During Battle of Kolombangara in Solomon Islands, U.S. lost USS Gwin (DD 433)…
Len Jones was born in 1911, the coronation year of King George V and the year the Titanic was launched at Harland & Woolf in Belfast.During his lifetime there have been four British monarchs, 19 Prime Ministers, two World Wars and the break up of the British Empire…
Maritime Administrator David Matsuda today honored the memory of Richard Oliver Kelleher during the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Maritime Day observation. Administrator Matsuda presented six posthumous awards to the family of Kelleher…
April 5 marks the National Maritime Day of India. On this day in 1919 navigation history was created when SS Loyalty, the first ship of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company, journeyed to the United Kingdom. The National Maritime Day was first celebrated on 5th April…
1877-Training of first class of Revenue Cutter cadets began on the school-ship Dobbin at Curtis Bay, Maryland, with nine cadets, three officers, one surgeon, six warrant officers and 17 crew members on board.(USCG Historian’s Office)
1952 - USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea.1973 - Launch of Skylab 2 mission, which was first U.S. manned orbiting space station. It had an all Navy crew of CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN. (commanding), CDR Joseph P. Kerwin, USN and CDR Paul J…
1830-Navy officers, under furlough from the Navy until April 1832, were given commissions in the Revenue Service.1941-CGC Modoc sighted the German battleship Bismarck while the cutter searched for survivors of a convoy southeast of Cape Farewell…
1917 - First U.S. convoy to cross North Atlantic during World War I leaves Hampton Roads, VA1918 - USS Olympia anchors at Kola Inlet, Murmansk, Russia, to protect refugees during Russian Revolution1939 - First and only use of VADM Allan…
1849-Revenue Captain Douglas Ottinger reported completing the construction and furnishing of eight life-saving stations on the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Inlet, marking the beginning of Federal life-saving efforts.1944…
1850 - Washington Navy Yard begins work on first castings for the Dahlgren guns1917 - USS Ericsson fires first torpedo of war1944 - During preparations for the invasion of Saipan an accidental ordnance blast on LST 353 sets off cataclysmic ammunition explosions at West Loch…
