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1666 - Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet

1934 - USS Ranger, first ship designed from the keel up as a carrier, is commissioned at Norfolk, VA
1939 -  The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

1942 - Battle of Midway (4-6 June) begins; during battle, the 4 Japanese carriers which attacked Pearl Harbor are sunk; this decisive U.S. victory is a turning point in the Pacific war
1944 - Hunter-killer group USS Guadalcanal captures German submarine, U-505

1665 - Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft

1898 - Collier Merrimac sunk in channel leading to Santiago, Cuba in unsuccessful attempt to trap Spanish fleet. The crew was captured and later received the Medal of Honor.
1949 - Wesley A. Brown becomes the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy.
1969 - HMAS Melbourne USS Frank E. Evans collision 3rd June 1969 : While on NATO exercises in the South China Sea just off the coast of Vietnam the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices the smaller US destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half killing 74 of the destroyers crew.   

Andy I would love a copy of your fabrication instructions. I'll PM you my email.

Cheers David

1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

1861 - USS Perry captures Confederate privateer Savannah
1941 - First aircraft escort vessel, USS Long Island (ACG-1), commissioned, then reclassified as an auxiliary aircraft carrier (AVC-1) on 20 August and finally reclassified as an escort carrier (CVE-1) in July 1943.

Kevin,

Great work on the stern davits and the model is looking great.

Looking at the photos of you in the 80's. I have to ask if the Royal Navy was short of Barbers in those days.

David

Great looking model Paul, I look forward to seeing more of your build log.

David

Daniel,

Amazing amount of detail you've put into those canons, they look great. Can't wait to see what they look like fully rigged.

David

Andy,

the  seizing on your shrouds and mizzen stay looks great. Your machine does a great job, well done mate.

David

1871 - RADM Rodgers lands in Korea with a party of Sailors and Marines and captures 5 forts to secure protection for U.S. citizens after Americans were fired upon and murdered.
1914 - General Order 99 prohibits alcohol on board naval vessels, or at navy yards or stations
1915 - First contract for lighter-than-air craft for Navy
1939 - Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, Captain Hollis M. Cooley, proposes research in atomic energy for future use in nuclear powered submarine
1944 - ZP-14 Airships complete first crossing of Atlantic by non-rigid lighter-than-air aircraft
1954 - First test of steam catapult from USS Hancock

Very cool, how on earth did it fit?

David

Isabel Browne?

Nice looking model they have, thanks for sharing.

David

Nice start Robbyn. Sorry I'm late. I'll stand at the back if no seats are available

David

Let's try Annesly?

1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.

1900 - Sailors and Marines from USS Newark and USS Oregon arrive at Peking, China with other Sailors and Marines from Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan to protect U.S. and foreign diplomatic legations from the Boxers

1911 - The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.

1916 - A German naval fleet consisting of 24 battleships, five battle cruisers, 11 light cruisers and 63 destroyers were just off the Jutland Peninsula, were attacked by a British fleet of 28 battleships, nine battle cruisers, 34 light cruisers and 80 destroyers in one of the greatest sea battles in History known as The Battle of Jutland or the Battle of the Skagerrak, a total of 100,000 men aboard 250 ships were involved in the battle

1919 - NC-4's transatlantic mission ends at Plymouth, England

1942 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.

1944 - USS England sank a record 6th Japanese submarine in 13 days.

Countess of Seafield?

Is it the Silverstream?

1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America

1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida

1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.

1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

1959 - The first full size hovercraft , the SR-N1, designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell, is launched and tested at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Adrieke gets it. It is the Oceanos. Well done mate.

Your turn.

David

Next up is this one.

Good Luck

David

Congratulations Ed on producing such a great model. I look forward to reading the rest of the build log.

David

Is it the Swift of Ipswich?

Alessandro,

Great find, I'll keep a look out for this one.

David

That's one camera shy ship you've found there Danny :mellow:

1592 - At the Battle of Sacheon, the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin, repels a Japanese army that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1.

1652 - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp

1914 -  The RMS Empress of Ireland and A Norwegian coal freighter, the Storstad, crash in St. Lawrence River in thick fog causing the deaths of 1,073 passengers and crew, this was one of the worst maritime accidents in history.  

1950 - The St Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1991 - Amphibious Task Force in Bangladesh for cyclone relief redeployed