st george

1797 - Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.

1802 - Frigate Constellation defeats 9 Corsair gunboats off Tripoli.

1805 -  Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1953 - U.S. ships laid down heavy barrage to support UN troops in Korea
1964 - Four Navy Divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning) submerge in Sealab I for 10 days at a depth of 192 feet, 39 miles off Hamilton, Bermuda. They surfaced on 31 July 1964.
1974 - Evacuees from the coup on Cyprus arrive on board Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. Operation ended on 24 July.

Looking forward to seeing this one built. It's on my list of possible next build.

1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada.

1823 - After pirate attack, LT David G. Farragut leads landing party to destroy pirate stronghold in Cuba.

1918 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1944 - Invasion and recapture of Guam begins.
1946 - In first U.S. test of adaptability of jet aircraft to shipboard operations, XFD-1 Phantom makes landings and takeoffs without catapults from Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1959 - 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey.

1960 - Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing.

1964 - Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan.
1997 - Thousands watched as the USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, celebrated 200 years by sailing from Marblehead, Massachusetts, under its own power for the first time in 116 years.

Iphigenie?

1866 - Battle of Lissa – The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
1960 - In first launch of Polaris missile, USS George Washington (SSBN 598) successfully fires 2 operational Polaris missiles while submerged off Florida.
1964 - Four Navy divers enter Project SEALAB I capsule moored 192 feet on the ocean floor off Bermuda for 11 day experiment.
1969 - Former Navy pilot Neil Armstrong is first man to set foot on the moon. While taking the first step, he said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong was Commander of Apollo 11 which during its 8 day mission landed on the Sea of Tranquility. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Hornet (CVS-12).

Happy Birthday Randy.

1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Ascension.

1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1886 - Atlanta, the first steel-hulled American cruiser armed with breechloading rifled guns, is commissioned.
1897 - LT Robert E. Peary departs on year long Arctic Expedition which makes many important discoveries, including one of largest meteorites, Cape York.
1918 - Armored cruiser USS San Diego sunk off Fire Island, NY by a mine laid by U-156.
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs second Naval Expansion Act.

1940 - Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.

1942 - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.

1945 - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.

1979 - Two giant supertankers collide in the Caribbean Sea, killing 26 crew members and spilling 280,000 tons of crude oil.

1588 - Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada.

1696 - Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River.

1813 - U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.
1920 - Naval aircraft sink ex-German cruiser Frankfurt in target practice.
1943 - German submarine shoots down K-74, the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II.
1973 - Task Force 78, Mine Countermeasures Force, departs waters of North Vietnam after completing their minesweeping operations of 1,992 tow hours for the cost of $20,394,000.

Have you tried contacting Flagship Models. I would think they did a lot of research to make the figures.

Audacieuse?

1774 - Captain Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata).

1866 - Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa.

1898 - Santiago, Cuba surrenders to U.S. Naval forces.

1918 - The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.

1944 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
 

Happy Birthday Ray

Hope you had a great day.

Nice work on the Anchors Augie and I like the use of heat shrink. I would never have thought of using that.

1618 - Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain.

1915 - First Navy ships, battleships Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin transit Panama Canal.

1945 - The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.

1960 - USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.

HMS Challenger?

HMS Liverpool?

You got her Adrieke. Well done mate.

Your turn.

Nope, not the RMS Queen Mary.

Sorry Jan,

I used a photo that didn't need any Photo shopping. It just didn't come up on Google when I found it. There are lots of other photos of her though. Good luck my friend.

Not the  RMS Imperator Jan. Guess again.

1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.

1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1958 - In response to request by President of Lebanon, Sixth Fleet lands 1,800 Marines at Beruit to support Lebanese government against Communist rebels.

I like options, so the inclusion of flags and sails gets my vote.

1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.

1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet.
1882 - Sailors and Marines from 4 U.S. ships land to help restore order at Alexandria, Egypt.
1945 - U.S. warships bombard Kamaishi, Japan; first naval gunfire bombardment of Japanese Home Islands.
1950 - U.S. Marines sail from San Diego for Korean Conflict.
1952 - Laying of keel of USS Forrestal, the first 59,900 ton aircraft carrier.

1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward).

1957 - Soviet steamer Eshghbad sinks in Caspian Sea.

I found her on this site.

http://www.tommyduggan.com/VP100306hero.html

Next up from me.

Good Luck.

Finnish tanker "Ragny"?

 

  Danny

Beat you by 7 minutes Danny