1898 - USS Oregon departs San Francisco for 14,000 mile trip around South America to join U.S. Squadron off Cuba1917 - Navy Department authorizes enrollment of women in Naval Reserve with ratings of yeoman, radio electrician, or other essential ratings…
1909- Stations Holly Beach, and Hereford Inlet, New Jersey: the schooner C.B. parted its chain while weighing anchor. She set a distress signal which was discovered by the lookouts at both stations. The surfboats proceeded to the scene and…
1945 - Carriers begin 3 month Okinawa Campaign by destroying aircraft on Kyushu, Japan1974 - Navy sent to sweep mines from Suez Canal(Source: Navy News Service)
1863- The cutter Agassiz defended the Union-held Fort Anderson at New Bern, North Carolina, from a Confederate attack.1902- All but one of the members of the crew of the Monomoy (Massachusetts) Life-Saving Station perished during the attempted…
1898 - USS Holland, first practical submarine, launched1942 - United States Naval Forces Europe established to plan joint operations with British1958 - Navy Vanguard rocket launches 3.25 pound sphere from Cape Canaveral1959 - USS…
1909- At Assateague Beach, Virginia, the schooner Charley C. Weaver began taking on water. One of the crew notified the keeper that the schooner was leaking. The life-saving station's surfboat proceeded to the scene, 1-5/8 miles south of the station…
1911 - Hulk of USS Maine sunk at sea in deep water with full military honors.1945 - Iwo Jima declared secure.1966 - Launch of Gemini 8. Former naval aviator Neil Armstrong flew on this mission which completed 7 orbits in 10 hours and 41 minutes at an altitude of 161…
1942- The 172-foot tender CGC Acacia was en route from Curacao, Netherlands West Indies to Antigua, British West Indies, when she was sunk by shellfire from the German submarine U-161. The entire crew of Acacia was rescued. She was the only…
1955- Effective this date, all foreign and domestic ships were required to give 24-hour advance notice to the local U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port before entering U.S. ports. This order was designed to improve the U.S. Coast Guard's…
1917 - All American merchant ships to be armed in war zones1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt designates Admiral Ernest J. King to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations, as well as the Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet to which he was appointed on 30 December 1941…
1941- The Lend-Lease Program was inaugurated. All 10 of the Coast Guard's Lake-class cutters were transferred to the Royal Navy under the program. Two were lost in action against German forces. These 250-foot cutters had been designed by…
1935 - Birth of Naval Security Group when OP-20G became the Communications Security Group1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act1942 - In a PT boat, LCDR John Bulkeley leaves the Philippines to take General Douglas…
1909- The British barkentine Ladysmith, during a thick fog, stranded three miles WSW of the Fisher's Island Life-Saving Station. The keeper was notified by telephone and the life-savers, in surfboat, proceeded to the scene. They safely rescued the Ladysmith's master…
1783 - USS Alliance (CAPT John Barry) defeats HMS Sybil in final naval action of Revolution in West Indies waters1933 - Pacific Fleet provides assistance after earthquake at Long Beach, CA1945 - Navy and civilian nurses interned at Los Banos…
1944- The U-225 torpedoed and sank the Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS Leopold (DE-319) off Iceland. The attack was one of the first times the Germans used a newly developed acoustic torpedo successfully. All 13 officers and 148 (out of 186) enlisted men on board were killed…
