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1922 - LCDR Virgil C. Griffin in Vought VE-7SF makes first takeoff from U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1) anchored in York River, Virginia. 1941 - U-568 torpedoes and damages USS Kearny (DD-432) near Iceland, resulting in 11 killed and 22 injured. 1944 - Naval Forces land Army rangers on islands at the entrance to Leyte Gulf in preparation for landings. 1989 - Following San Francisco earthquake, 24 Navy and Military Sealift Command ships rendered assistance.
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Well done Cristiano, it is the John H. Amos. Your turn.
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Next from me. Good Luck
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HMS Godetia, K226. Originally HMS Dart?
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1940 - 5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada. 1942 - Carrier aircraft from USS Hornet (CV-8) conduct attacks on Japanese troops on Guadalcanal. 1943 - Navy accepts its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1) at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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1705 - English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona. 1917 - USS Cassin (DD-43) torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off coast of Ireland. In trying to save the ship, Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram becomes first American sailor killed in World War I and later is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism. He becomes the first enlisted man to have a ship named for him, in 1919. 1918 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6. 1948 - First women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan: CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN. 1957 - USS Lake Champlain reaches Valencia, Spain to assist in flood rescue work. 1960 - USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) begins successful firing of four Polaris test vehicles under operational rather than test conditions. Tests are completed on 18 October. 1965 - U.S. Naval Support Activity Danang Vietnam, established.
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1773 - East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland. 1939 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed. 1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
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1492 - English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock. 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude. 1893 - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (England) in 9th America's Cup. 1954 - USS Saipan begins relief and humanitarian aid to Haitians who were victims of Hurricane Hazel. The operation ended 19 October. 1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf).
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1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia. 1702 - Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron. 1775 - US Navy forms. 1861 - Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi. 1914 - USS Jupiter (AC-3) is first Navy ship to complete transit of Panama Canal. 1944 - Aircraft from Carrier Task Force 38 attack Formosa. 1957 - RADM Dufek arrives at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica to command Operation Deep Freeze III during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. 1961 - Five men cholera treatment demonstration team from Naval Medican Research Unit, Taipei leaves to assist setting up of facilities to treat an epidemic in Manila. 1965 - End of Project Sealab II where teams of naval divers and scientists spent 15 days in Sealab moored 205 feet below surface near La Jolla, California. 1980 - USS Guadalcanal and other ships of Amphibious Forces, Sixth Fleet begin assistance to earthquake victims in Al Asnam, Algeria. 2000 - Terrorists in a boat make suicide attack on USS Cole (DDG-67) while the ship refuels in the port of Aden, Yemen. Seventeen Sailors are killed.
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1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis. 1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed). 1944 - Opening of Leyte campaign begins with attack of four Carrier Task Groups of Task Force 38 on Okinawa and Ryukyus. 1985 - Fighters from USS Saratoga (CV-60) force Egyptian airliner, with the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro aboard, to Italy, where the hijackers were taken into custody.
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1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100. 1945 - Typhoon hits Okinawa, damaging many Navy ships. 1958 - Israeli navy inaugrates its 1st submarine. 1961 - USS Princeton rescues 74 survivors of two shipwrecks (U.S. lines Pioneer Muse and SS Shiek) from the island of Kita Daito Shima.
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Right again David. Your turn.
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Next from me. Good luck
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1625 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz. 1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay). 1812 - Boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in Niagara River. 1821 - The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy. 1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle. 1879 - War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter. 1950 - 1st Marine Division commences embarkion at Inchon for landings at Wonsan, Korea. 1961 - USS Tulare (AKA-112) and USS Princeton (CVS-7) rescue seamen from an American and a Lebanese merchant ship, which were aground on Kita Daita Jima.
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Haven't given up Dave, just been busy at work. It's the SV Euphrates barque built in 1876.
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October 7 1571 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet. 1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans. 1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in harbor of Bahia, Brazil. 1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn. 1985 - Four Palestinian terrorists members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), the terrorist wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in order to hijack the luxury liner and it's passengers. 2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins with carrier air strikes, and ship and submarine Tomahamk strikes.
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1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die. 1940 - Fourth group of 8 U.S. destroyers involved in Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities at Halifax, Canada. 1943 - In night Battle of Vella Lavella, 3 U.S. destroyers attack 9 Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella., Solomon Islands. 1958 - USS Seawolf (SSN-575) completes record submerged run of 60 days, logging over 13,700 nautical miles. 1962 - Commissioning of USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), first nuclear-powered frigate. 1987 - Destruction of 3 Iranian small boats. 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the self-powered trip to circumnavigate the globe which he had begun from Greenwich, London in July, 1994 .
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610 - Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople. 1862 - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas. 1863 - Confederate David seriously damages USS New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, South Carolina.
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You got it Dave. Your turn.
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Next from me. An untouched picture. Good Luck.
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1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. 1821 - LT Robert F. Stockton sails from Boston for Africa to carry out his orders to help stop the international slave trade. 1976 - USS Jonas Ingram (DD-938) rescues 7 survivors of a Finnish motor craft that sank in the Baltic Sea. 1991 - USS Arkansas, USS Sioux, USS Aubrey Fitch and Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron SIX rescue personnel on merchant ships in three different rescue operations in the Arabian Sea.
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Is it the Unicorn in front. making it Dundee. And a Royal Navy Minesweeper HMS HELMSDALE ?
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Michigan highway?
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1921 - USS Olympia sails for France to bring home the Unknown Soldier from World War I. 1928 - French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42. 1955 - Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea. 1955 - USS Saipan (CVL-48) begins disaster relief at Tampico, Mexico rescuing people and delivering supplies. Operations ends 10 October.
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1799 - Establishment of Washington Navy Yard. 1836 - Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years). 1901 - 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow. 1939 - Foreign ministers of countries of the Western Hemisphere agree to establish a neutrality zone around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America to be enforced by the U. S. Navy. 2005 - The Ethan Allen capsizes on Lake George in upstate New York while on a pleasure cruise. And twenty elderly passengers die.
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