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Irish Alder?
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1917 - USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France. 1941 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia. 1943 - Operation Galvanic, under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, lands Navy, Marine, and Army forces on Tarawa and Makin. 1944 - 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines). 1962 - President John F. Kennedy lifts the Blockade of Cuba.
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1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage. 1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast. 1943 - Carrier force attacks bases on Tarawa and Makin begun. 1943 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) enters Tarawa lagoon in first submarine photograph reconnaissance mission. 1961 - At the request of President of Dominican Republic, U.S. Naval Task Force sails to Dominican Republic to bolster the country's government and to prevent a coup.
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1890 - USS Maine, first American battleship, is launched. 1922 - CDR Kenneth Whiting in a PT seaplane, makes first catapult launching from aircraft carrier, USS Langley, at anchor in the York River. 1962 - USS Currituck (AV-7) rescues 13 Japanese fishermen from their disabled fishing boat Seiyu Maru, which was damaged in Typhoon Karen. Good to be back, will post photos later when I get back from work.
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1875 - Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die. 1967 - Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf. 1971 - USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile. That's it for two weeks. Off to England today for family wedding. Hope to get some sight seeing in too.
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1914 - German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile. 1918 - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians. 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt places Coast Guard under jurisdiction of Department of the Navy for duration of national emergency. 1967 - Operation Coronado IX began in Mekong Delta. 1979 - Retirement of Polaris A-3 program begins with removal of missiles from USS Abraham Lincoln. Last Polaris missile removed in February 1982.
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1772 - Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown. 1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill aboard. 1941 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war.
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SS Valentine is correct. Well done Seahorse and welcome to the forums. Your turn.
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1867 - Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands. 1932 - French liner Normandie is launched. 1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.
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Nice to see her looked after. Here's the next from me. Good Luck.
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W.P. Snyder Jr. Steamboat that was used to push coal barges up and down the Monongahela River from 1918 through 1953.
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1914 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine. 1922 - Navy League of U.S. sponsors first annual celebration of Navy Day to focus public attention on the importance of the U.S. Navy. That date was selected because it was Theodore Roosevelt's birthday. 1944 - Fast Carrier Task Forces attack Japanese shipping and installations in Visayas and northern Luzon.
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Should be easy, I've used this ship before.
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Just got home. Kenilworth is correct Dave. Your turn.
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Time for a clue. She was renamed three times and sunk by a U Boat.
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1492 - Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic. 1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland. 1616 - VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia. 1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean. 1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die. 1944 - During Battle of Leyte Gulf in Battle of Surigao Straits, U.S. battleships execute the maneuver of "crossing the tee" of the Japanese forces. In Battle Off Samar, escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts heroically resist attacks of Japanese Center Force. In Battle Off Cape Engano, 3rd Fleet carriers attack Japanese Northern Force sinking several small carriers. 1966 - Operation Sea Dragon logistics interdiction began.
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1944 - In air-sea battle in the Sibuyan Sea, carrier aircraft attack Japanese Center Force.Musashi sinks. 1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines. 1958 - USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates U.S. nationals from Nicaro, Cuba. 1962 - Atlantic Fleet begins quarantine operations to force Soviet Union to agree to remove ballistic missiles and long range bombers from Cuba.
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Thanks Dave, next from me Good luck
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1702 - Battle in Bay of Vigo: Dutch/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet. 1805 - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340. 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, a series of separate battles, begins with attacks on Japanese ships.
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QUEEN OF CLIPPERS?
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1846 - Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson of Philadelphia christens the sloop-of-war Germantown, the first U.S. Navy ship sponsored by a woman. 1904 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship. 1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland. 1948 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel. 1962 - President John F. Kennedy orders surface blockade (quarantine) of Cuba to prevent Soviet offensive weapons from reaching Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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1639 - Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo. 1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Hartts Boston shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. 1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright, USN and four Army officers at Cherchel, French North Africa, to meet with a French military delegation to learn the French attitude toward future Allied landings. 1944 - Leyte Landings continue. 1960 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched.
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1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas) 1870 - British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives. 1915 - Establishment of Submarine Base at New London, Connecticut. 1944 - Secretary of Navy orders African American women accepted into Naval Reserve. 1987 - US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf used for military purposes. 2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
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1667 - English fleet plunders Suriname plantations. 1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, VA and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers. 1867 - USS Ossippee and USS Resaca participate in formal transfer of Alaska to U.S. authority at Sitka and remain to enforce law and order in new territory. 1944 - 3rd Fleet Carrier aircraft attack Japanese ships in harbor and land forces around Manila. 1968 - In Operation Sea Lords, the Navy's three major operating forces in Vietnam (TF 115, 116, and 117) are brought together for the first time to stop Vietcong infiltration deep into South Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
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