Navy miscellany

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1801 - USS Chesapeake (36), Cptn. Samuel Barron, captures the French privateer La Jeune Creole (16) off Barbuda

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The History of Navy Rank: The Officer Corps

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ary-3.html

1909 — USS Scorpion arrives to help the survivors of the Messina, Sicily earthquake. With the Great White Fleet making its way through the Suez Canal, President T. Roosevelt orders the U.S. Navy to assist.
More at https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... -1909.html

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1863 - Blockading ship USS Quaker City captures sloop Mercury carrying despatches emphasizing desperate plight of the South.
SS Quaker City (1854) was a heavy, 1,428 long tons (1,451 t) sidewheel steamship leased by the Union Navy at the start of the American Civil War. She was subsequently purchased by the navy, outfitted with a powerful 20-pounder long rifle, and assigned to help enforce the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America

Wash drawing of USS Quaker City (1861-1865) by Clary Ray, circa 1900.

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

1776 — The first Continental Navy squadron is ordered to sea by Congress to seek the British off coasts of the Carolinas and Rhode Island and in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Amidst the Timbers of a Storied Past: Nautical Archaeologists Visit Constitution

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1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".

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The Search for Seaman Joachim Pease

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Answering the Call: Stateside Deployments of U.S. Navy Hospital Ships

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You Never Know What You're Going to Find

A bit like OW

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Interesting.

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1820 - The schooner Lynx, commanded by Lt. J. R. Madison, departs St. Marys, Ga., bound for Kingston, Jamaica, to
continue her service suppressing pirates. She is never heard from again and no trace of her or her 50-man crew is ever found.

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The Loss of USS Saginaw

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Honoring 30 Years of Women in Command at Sea

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Loretta Perfectus Walsh - First Enlisted Woman in the Navy

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https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ry-15.html

1846 — The sloop of war Jamestown captures the slaver Robert Wilson off Porto Praya.

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1930 - USS Lexington completes a 30-day period in which she furnishes electricity to Tacoma, Wash., in an emergency
arising from a drought that causes a water shortage and hydro-electric power is not available in the Puget Sound area.

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Susan Ahn Cuddy

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https://www.marinelink.com/news/history ... aval336831

1962 — After a flash fire in the Persian Gulf on Danish tanker, Prima Maersk, burned a crewman, USS Duxbury Bay transfers a Navy doctor to help the Danish crewman and USS Soley took him to the nearest hospital at Bahrain Island.

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1840 - During the Exploring Expedition, USS Vincennes, commanded by Lt. Charles Wilkes, becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to reach the Antarctic Continent