1884 - 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, Canada.1943 - In night Battle of Vella Lavella…
1938- The first members were enrolled in the Coast Guard Reserve.1943- Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6 CG) was officially established. This was an all Coast Guard unit. Its home base was at Narsarssuak, Greenland, code name Bluie West-One. It had nine PBY-5As assigned…
1863 - Confederate David seriously damages USS New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, South Carolina.1913 - Trial of OWL, Navy's first amphibian flying boat1957 - Minitrack, a satellite tracking net developed by the Naval Research Laboratory…
1789-Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton asked collectors of customs to report on expediency of employing boats for the 'security of the revenue against contraband.' Hamilton's interest in such vessels led to his request to Congress…
1799 - Establishment of Washington Navy Yard1939 - Foreign ministers of countries of the Western Hemisphere agree to establish a neutrality zone around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America to be enforced by the U. S. Navy(Source: Navy News Service)
1926-An airways division, headed by a chief engineer, was set up as a part of the Lighthouse Service, its work covering the examination of airways and emergency landing fields and the erection and maintenance of aids to air navigation.1943…
1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.1874 - Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of…
1899-First Navy wireless message was sent via the Lighthouse Service Station at Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey.1943-CGC E.M. Wilcox foundered off Nags Head, NC. One crewman was lost.1949-The rank of commodore, established in 1943 as a wartime measure…
1800 - 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. Navy units…
1898-The American steamer, Toledo with the barge Shawnee in tow, became water-logged 25 miles southwest of the station at Ship Canal, MI. Her crew boarded Shawnee and sailed to the canal. There they engaged the steamer D. F. Rose to tow Toledo…
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…
1850-An Act of Congress (9 Stat. L., 500, 504) provided for a systematic coloring and numbering of all buoys for, prior to this time, they had been painted red, white, or black, without any special system. The act 'prescribed that buoys should…
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race1944 - Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support…
1916-The beginning of lighthouse work in the United States was commemorated, when a bronze tablet was unveiled at the Boston Light Station on the 200th anniversary of its establishment.1959-A US Navy P5M seaplane that had ditched off the Oregon coast was located through radio contact by a U…
1941 - In first successful U.S. Navy escort of convoys during World War II, Navy escort turn over HX-150 to British escorts at the Mid-Ocean Meeting Point. All ships reach port safely.1957 - In project Stratoscope, Office of Naval Research…
