Navy miscellany

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Perry's Revenge — A Continued Look at the Wreck of an Early 19th-Century Naval Schooner off the Coast of Rhode Island

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ry-21.html

1862 — Navy ship USS Ethan Allen, commanded by acting-Lt. William B. Eaton, captures the schooner Olive Branch at sea off the Florida coast.


https://www.history.navy.mil/research/h ... len-i.html

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ry-22.html

1862 — During the Civil War, the side-wheel steamer Lexington conducts a reconnaissance up the Tennessee River and exchanges long-range fire with Fort Henry in Tennessee.

1870 — USS Nipsic, commanded by Cmdr. Thomas O. Selfrige, sails on an expedition to survey the Isthmus of Darien at Panama to determine the best route for a ship canal.

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1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean

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1870 - screw sloop of war USS Oneida sunk after a collision with british steamer Bombay

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Loss of Cook 3rd Class Doris Miller

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1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

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1778 - During the American Revolution, the Continental sloop Providence, commanded by Capt. O. P. Rathburne, attacks New Providence Island, spikes the guns of the fort, captures small arms, holds off the sloop of war Grayton, and captures a privateer and five other vessels, while freeing 20 released American prisoners.

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ry-28.html

1962 — USS Cook (APD-130) rescues 25 survivors from Panamanian tanker, SS Stanvac Sumatra, which broke in two in the South China Sea.

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ry-29.html

1862 — The storeship USS Supply captures schooner Stephen Hart loaded with a cargo of arms and munitions, south of Sarasota, Fla.

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1862 — The first U.S. Navy ironclad warship, USS Monitor, is launched. Commissioned a month
later, she soon engages in battle against CSS Virginia, the first battle between ironclad warships.

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“Act to provide a naval armament” – 225th Anniversary of the Creation of the United States Navy

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1800 - USS Constellation engages French frigate La Vengeance in a 5-hour battle

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1894 - USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, wrecked

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Only 4 more years and I will have finished the Kearsarge.

(Not sure if the 4years is log books or my transcribe time.)

[Michael]

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USS UNITED STATES: A “most powerful” and “useful ship”

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A Frigate Battle through Enemy Eyes

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ary-5.html

1962 — USS Stoddard (DD 566) and USS Surfbird (ADG-383) rescue 29 crewmen from the sinking Greek merchant vessel Yanix off Luzon, Philippine Islands.

7th Fleet Rescue of the USS Yanix Discovered
As far as I can tell, the 'USS' is a typo and should be 'SS'

[Randi]

“…to procure the most durable wood in the world – the live oak of Georgia…”: Building the New U.S. Navy in the 1790s