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1914 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island. 1941 - US declares war on Japan. 1941 - USS Wake (PR-3), a river gunboat moored at Shanghai, is only U.S. vessel to surrender during World War II. 1942 - Eight PT boats (PT 36, PT 37, PT 40, PT 43, PT 44, PT 48, PT 59, and PT 109) turn back 8 Japanese destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese forces on Guadalcanal.
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1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise. 1917 - Four U.S. battleships arrive at Scapa Flow taking on the role of the British Grand Fleet's Sixth Battle Squadron. Include USS Delaware (BB-28), USS Florida (BB-30), New York (BB-34), and USS Wyoming (BB-32). 1941 - Japanese carrier aircraft attack U.S. Pacific Fleet based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1944 - Seventh Fleet forces land Army troops on shore of Ormoc Bay. Kamikazes attack Task Force, damaging several U.S. Navy ships.
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1901 - First report of Ship Model Basin at Washington Navy Yard issued by Naval Constructor David W. Taylor who designed the basin. First facility of this type in U.S. to test hull shapes. 1917 - German submarine torpedoes sink USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) off England. 1917 - French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax.
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1941 - USS Lexington (CV-2) sails with Task Force 12 to ferry Marine aircraft to Midway, leaving no carriers at Pearl Harbor.
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1918 - President Woodrow Wilson sails in USS George Washington for Paris Peace Conference. 1943 - Aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16) and USS Independence (CVL-22) attack Kwajalein Atoll, sinking four Japanese ships and damaging five others, while only three U.S. ships suffered damage. 1944 - USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II. 1983 - Aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and USS Independence (CV-62) launch strike against anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon that fired on U.S. aircraft. Two U.S. Navy planes shot down.
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1775 - LT John Paul Jones raises the Grand Union flag on Alfred. First American flag raised over American naval vessel. 1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarks on USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) to inspect bases acquired from Great Britain under Destroyer-for Bases agreement. 1948 - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100.
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Well done again Jay. It is the Queen of Kent. Your turn.
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Not the Red funnel Lorna Doone.
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1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. 1941 - First Naval Armed Guard detachment (7 men under a coxswain) of World War II reports to Liberty ship, SS Dunboyne, 1944 - Two-day destroyer Battle of Ormoc Bay begins. 1965 - USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) and USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) become first nuclear-powered task unit used in combat operations with launch of air strikes near Bien Hoa, Vietnam.
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But which one Jan?
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I thought of using that photo before, so had it saved. Next from me Good Luck
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USS Topeka with The receiving ship Vermont in the background.
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1768 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway. 1831 - Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather. 1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python.
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1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific. 1824 - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal. 1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking. 1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho. 1942 - In Battle of Tassafaronga, last major naval action in Solomons, U.S. force prevents Japanese attempt to reprovision the Japanese troops on Guadalcanal. Six U.S. ships are damaged in the action. 1942 - German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama. 1944 - Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground.
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Stella Polaris is correct. I didn't think it would stump you lot for as long as it did. Well done Jmaitri, your turn.
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1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. 1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet. 1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched. 1944 - USS Archerfish (SS-311) sinks Japanese carrier Shinano, world's largest warship sunk by any submarine during World War II . 1966 - SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.
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1941 - Chief of Naval Operations sends "war warning" to commanders of Pacific and Asiatic Fleets. 1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them
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1703 - Great storm hits Southern England thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen. 1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). 1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ. 1847 - LT William Lynch in Supply sails from New York to Haifa for an expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. His group charted the Jordan River from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea and compiled reports of the flora and fauna of the area. 1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile. 1898 - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed. 1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die. 1940 - Sixth and last group of ships involved in Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement transferred to British at Nova Scotia. 1941 - Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor.
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1826 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy. 1940 - SS Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die. 1943 - In Battle of Cape St. George, 5 destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 23 (Captain Arleigh Burke) intercept 5 Japanese destroyers and sink 3 and damage one without suffering any damage. 1961 - Commissioning of USS Enterprise (CVA(N)-65), the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, at Newport News, VA.
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Shouldn't be too hard. She was the most famous cruise ship of the thirties.
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1852 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails from Norfolk, VA, to negotiate a treaty with Japan for friendship and commerce. 1964 - USS Princeton (LPH-5) completes 7-days of humanitarian relief to South Vietnam which suffered damage from typhoon and floods. 1969 - HS-4 from USS Hornet (CVS-12) recovers Apollo 12's all-Navy crew of astronauts, Commanders Richard Gordon, Charles Conrad, and Alan Bean, after moon landing by Conrad and Bean.
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1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Admiral William D. Leahy as U.S. Ambassador to Vichy France to try to prevent the French fleet and naval bases from falling into German hands.
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1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus's fleet. 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope. 1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard. 1905 - British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos. 1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.
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1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass. 1847 - Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200. 1916 - HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people. 1918 - U.S. battleships witness surrender of German High Seas fleet at Rosyth, Firth of Forth, Scotland, to U.S. and British fleets.
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Next from me. Good Luck
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