1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British Volunteer1848 - Attack on Sloop Lexington, San Blas, Mexico1953 - Landings tested on board USS Antietam, first angled deck carrier(Source: Navy News Service)
Ship-shape following 12 weeks and $18m worth of maintenance and preservation work in Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard’s largest drydock facility, the Battleship Mo. returned Jan. 7 to her home pier near the USS Arizona Memorial along Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row…
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $6,862,387 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) to exercise an option for additional systems engineering and class logistics services associated with…
1863 - CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston1944 - Aircraft from USS Block Island make first aircraft rocket attack on German submarine(Source: Navy News Service)
1847 - Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)(Source: Navy News Service)
1960 - Launch of first fully-guided flight of Polaris missile at Cape Canaveral (flew 900 miles)1967 - Mobile Riverine Force begins arriving at Vung Tau, Vietnam(Source: Navy News Service)
1916 - First enlisted flight training class at Pensacola, FL1942 - Japanese capture 11 Navy Nurses in Manila, Philippines1967- Operation Deckhouse V begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam.1996 - USS Hopper, named for RADM Grace Hopper, commissioned.(Source: Navy News Service)
On Jan. 1, 2010, the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) patrols the Gulf of Aden in support of counter-piracy operations. Chosin is the flagship for Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia…
1855 - USS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops1875 - CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama. Route followed 30 years later.1943 - USS Helena (CL-50) fired first proximity fused projectile…
1910 - Commissioning of USS Michigan (BB-27), the first U.S. dreadnought battleship.1863 - Blockading ship USS Quaker City captures sloop Mercury carrying despatches emphasizing desperate plight of the South.1989 - Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F…
1862 - USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC.1941 - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.1942 - Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA1948…
1941 - Admiral Ernest J. King assumes duty as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet.1959 - Commissioning of first fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington (SSB(N)-598), at Groton, CT.(Source: Navy News Service)
1798 - First annual report by Secretary of the Navy, sent by Benjamin Stoddert.1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.1943 - USS Silversides (SS-236) sinks three Japanese ships and damages a fourth off Palau…
1867 - U.S. claims Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.1905 - Drydock Dewey left Solomon's Island, MD, enroute through the Suez Canal to the Philippines to serve as repair base. This, the longest towing job ever accomplished…
YYK Enterprises, Inc., National City, Calif., is being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ceiling amount of $16,250,000, to provide interior and exterior preservation services onboard…