Naval History On This Day, Any Nation

[Kevin]

14 November

 

1745

HMS Fox (24), Cptn. Edmund Beavor, foundered off Dunbar when she was driven ashore in a violent gale.

1755

HMS Orford (70) captured French Esperance (74), Cptn. Louis Jubert de Bouville.

1797

HMS Cerberus (32), Cptn. J. Drew, captured privateer Renard (18).

1803

Boats of HMS Blenheim (90), Cptn. Thomas Graves, HMS Drake, Cptn. William Ferris, and HMS Swift hired cutter (12), Lt. Edward Hawker, stormed a fort, spiking the guns and blowing up the magazine, and captured French privateer L'Harmonie (8) at Marin St. Ann's Bay, Martinique.

1808

Boats of HMS Polyphemus (64), Cptn. W. Price Cumby, French national schooner captured Colibri (3) off San Domingo.

1846

US Naval forces capture Tampico, Mexico.

Edited November 15, 2013 by Kevin

[Kevin]

15 November

 

 

1777

American prize HMS Racehorse (8) destroyed in the Delaware.

1798

Capture of Minorca by Commodore John Duckworth and troops under General the Hon. Charles Stuart

1810

HMS Phipps (14), Lt. Christopher Bell, captured privateer lugger Barbier de Seville off Calais.

[Kevin]

16 November

 

 

 

1776

First salute to an American flag (Grand Union flag) flying from Continental Navy ship Andrew Doria, by Dutch fort at St. Eustatius, West Indies.

1797

HMS Tribune (36), Cptn. Scory Barker, hit shoals and sank whilst entering Halifax Harbour, NS, Canada with the loss of 240 souls.

1798

HMS Carnatick (74), Commodore Loring, impressed seamen from USS Baltimore (20), Cptn Phillips.

1803

HMS Circe (28), Cptn. Charles Fielding, wrecked on the Leman and Ower shoal, off Yarmouth, while chasing an enemy.

1807

HMS Warspite (76) launched at Chatham

1816

HMS Bermuda (10), John Packenham (2), wrecked near the Tampico Bar, Gulf of Mexico.

[Kevin]

17 November

 

 

1797

HMS Anson (38) and HMS Boadicea (38), Cptn. R. G. Keates, captured the French privateer, Railleur, off Yeu Island, France.

1799

HMS Espion (en-flute), Cptn. Worsley, wrecked on Goodwin Sands with Dutch prisoners of war on board.

1800

Boats of HMS Captain (74), Captain Sir Richard John Strachan, HMS Magicienne (32), Captain William Ogilvy, HMS Nile (12), Lt. George Argles and HMS Suwarrow (10), Lt. James Nicholson, destroyed French corvette Reolaise (20), Lt. Chaunay Duclos, in Port Navalo.

1809

HMS Chiffonne (36), Cptn. John Wainwright, burnt pirate vessels at Linga, Persian Gulf.

[Kevin]

18 November

 

 

1793

HMS Latona (38), Cptn. Edward Thornborough, whilst supported by a British fleet under Lord Howe, engaged French Tigre (74) and Jean Bart (74)

1800

HM frigate, Leda launched at Chatham. The first of the largest class of sailing frigates ever built for the Royal Navy.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

19 November

 

 

1746

HMS Winchelsea (24), Cptn. Henry Dyve, took French frigate Subtile off Scilly Isles during which Lt. Samuel Hood wounded.

1804

HMS Romney (50) wrecked off the Texel

1813

Cptn. David Porter claims Marquesas Islands for the United States. 

[st george]

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.
 

[Kevin]

20 November

 

 

 

1759

Battle of Quiberon Bay/Cardinaux. British fleet of 23 ships of the line, under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, defeated a French fleet of 21 ships of the line, under Marshal de Conflans, near St Nazaire. 6 French ships were taken and many others foundered or ran ashore.

1793

French prize Scipion (74) caught fire and destroyed in Leghorn roads.

1806

Boats of HMS Success (32), Cptn. John Ayscough, captured privateer felucca Le Vengeur, in Hidden Port near Cumberland Harbour, Cuba but she was sunk by fire from the shore.

Boats of HMS Orpheus (32), Cptn. Thomas Briggs, captured Spanish schooner Dolores (3) in Campeachy Bay

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

21 November

 

 

1720

HMS Speedwell (28), Cptn. Hon. George Clinton, wrecked on the Dutch coast.

1739

British squadron of 6 ships of the line, under Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, bombard and capture of Porto Bello, Panama. 

1742

HMS Drake sloop (14), Cptn. John Pitman, and two others, and two fine Xebecs belonging to the King, three ships with stores for the garrison and a large Settee storeship, besides several Portuguese vessels lost in a violent storm in Gibraltar Bay

1779

HMS Hussar (28), Cptn. Elliott Salter, took Nostra Senora del Buen Confegio (26).

1806

HMS Dedaigneuse (36), Cptn. William Beauchamp Proctor, engaged French frigate Semillante off Mauritius.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

22 November

 

 

1718

Lt. Robert Maynard RN, commanding Jane and Ranger (shallow draft sloops on loan from Virginia merchants with crews drawn from Pearl and Lyme), battles the pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) in Adventure off Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Blackbeard is killed. Correction for 22 November.

1780

HMS Racehorse (16) blew up.

1798

 Medusa, Store-ship, lost drifting on shore in Rosier Bay, Gibraltar.

1799

HMS Courier (12),  Lt. Thomas Searle, captured French privateer cutter Guerriere (14), Felix Lallermand, off Lowerstoft.

1811

HMS Volontaire (38), Cptn. Hon. G. G. Waldegrave, and HMS Perlen (38), Cptn. J. S. Tetley, engaged French squadron of 3 ships of the line, including Trident (74) and frigate Amelie, off Cape Sicie

[Yambo]

The Cutty Sark was launched 144 years ago today.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

23 November

 

 

1703

HMS York (54), Cptn. Smith, lost off the Shipwash, Harwich.

1757

HMS Hussar and HMS Dolphin destroyed Alcvon

1810

British forces, employed in the defence of Cadiz against the besieging French under Marshal Soult, attack French gunboats at Puerta de Santa Maria using mortar and howitzer boats. Bombs and gunboats provided a diversion by bombarding Fort Catalina

1822

USS Aligator, Lt. Robert F Stockton, set on fire and blew up after beeing stranded on Carysford Reef, off Florida.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

24 November

 

 

1720

HMS Monck (60), Cptn. Hon. George Clinton, wrecked in Yarmouth Roads.

1799

HMS Solebay (32), Cptn. Stephen Poyntz, captured L'Egyptienne (18), L'Eolan (16), La Sarier (12) and La Vengeur (8).

1804

HMS Venerable (74), Cptn. John Hunter,  wrecked on the Rocks off Roundham Head, Torbay.

1807

HMS Ann captured a privateer and two gunboats.

1812

HMS Belette Sloop (18), David Sloane, wrecked on rocks off Island of Lessoe, in the Kattegat.

1814

HMS Fantôme Sloop (18), John Lawrence, wrecked on rocks near Prospect Harbour, Nova Scotia.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

25 November

 

 

1756

HMS Torbay (74) captured a French snow, Diligent

1757

HMS Augusta (60), Cptn. Arthur Forrest, took nine armed merchantmen.

1775

Continental Congress authorizes privateering. 

1793

HMS Penelope (32), Cptn. Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, and HMS Iphigenia (32), Cptn. Patrick Sinclair, captured French Inconstante (36) off St. Domingo

Edited November 26, 2013 by Kevin

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

26 November

 

 

1703

HMS Vanguard (90) sunk in Chatham Harbour and HMS Vesuvius, Fireship (8), Cptn. Paddon, wrecked at Spithead. Two of many R.N. ships lost in the Great Storm. (Both were subsequently raised)

HMS Oxford (54), HMS Warspite, and HMS Lichfield (48), Cptn. Lord Dursley, captured Hasardeux. 

1760

HMS Conqueror (74) wrecked on St. Nicholas Island (now Drake Island) off Plymouth

1776

HMS George Tender wrecked near Piscatagua, North America

1794

HMS Pylades (16) wrecked in Heraldswick bay, Isle of Nest, Shetland. (Salvaged and repurchased in 1796)

HMS Actif (10), John Harvey, foundered off Bermuda

1798

HMS Medusa (50), Cdr. Alexander Becher, was driven ashore and wrecked in the confusion whilst Lord St. Vincent, on shore at Gibraltar, was passing instructions to her captain through a speaking trumpet.

1813

Boats of HMS Swiftsure (74), Cptn. Edward Stirling Dickson, took French privateer schooner Charlemagne (8) off Cape Rousse in Corsica.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

27 November

 

 

1703

 A Great Storm in Southern England caused many R.N. ships to be lost in the Great Storm and also destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse. The ships included:
- HMS Mary (62), Cptn. Edward Hopson, wrecked on Goodwin Sands
- HMS Restoration wrecked on Goodwin Sands
- HMS Stirling Castle (70) wrecked on Goodwin Sands
- HMS Northumberland (70) wrecked on Goodwin Sands
- HMS Canterbury storeship (8), Cdr Thomas Blake, lost at Bristol
- HMS Eagle advice boat (10) wrecked off Sussex Coast
- HMS Newcastle (50) sunk off Spithead
- HMS Reserve (42), Cptn. John Anderson
- HMS Resolution (70), Cptn. Liell, wrecked on the coast of Pevensey Bay, Sussex
- HMS Reserve (42), Cptn. John Anderson off Yarmouth
- HMS Lichfield Prize, Cptn. Chamberlain, wrecked Sussex coast

1770

Horatio Nelson entered as midshipman in HMS Raisonnable.

1806

Boats of British squadron, under Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, destroyed Dutch frigate Phoenix and other vessels in Batavia Roads.

1807

Boats of HMS Porcupine (22), Cptn. Hon. Henry Duncan,  took two small vessels at Ragusa.

1809

HMS Chiffonne (36), Cptn. John Wainwright, burnt pirate vessels at Luft, Persian Gulf.

1811

HMS Eagle (74), Cptn. Charles Rowley, captured French frigate Corceyre (28) near Brindisi. Her companions, the frigate Uranie and brig Scemoplone escaped.

1812

HMS Southampton (32) wrecked on reef of rocks, off Conception Island

 

i have created a thread wrt to the great storm 1703 at this link

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/4482-great-storm-1703/?hl=%2B1703+%2Bgreat+%2Bstorm

Edited November 27, 2013 by Kevin

[st george]

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

[Kevin]

28 November

 

 

1758

HMS Lichfield. (50), Cptn. Matthew Barton, went aground on the Barbary coast and the crew were enslaved until 1760

1808

Boats of HMS Heureux (16), William Coombe,  took a schooner and a brig lying under the protection of two batteries in the harbour of Bay Mahaut. They grounded under fire and were abandoned.

1839

HMS Tribune (36), Cptn. Charles Hamlyn Williams, wrecked near Tarragona

1840

HMS Spey (10) wrecked on Racoon Key, West Indies.

1689

HMS Charles and Henry fireship (6) lost near Plymouth in a storm

[Kevin]

29 November

 

 

1744

HMS Rye (24), Cptn. Ormond Thomson, was chased by a large ship flying French colours and, while trying to escape, ran ashore on the Norfolk coast and was lost.

1762

HMS Marlborough (68), Cptn. Thomas Burnett, met very heavy weather and had to be abandoned in a sinking condition and destroyed

1775

Cptn. John Manley in schooner Lee captures British ordnance ship Nancy with large quantity of munitions.

1805

Boats of HMS Serpent (16), John Waller, captured guarda costa San Christoval Pano (7), Don Juan Christovel Tierro, at Trujillo Bay, Island of Bonecce.

1811

HMS Alceste (38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell, HMS Active (38), Cptn. James Alexander Gordon, and HMS Unite(38) took Pomone and Pesanne off Lissa.

At the Admiralty Sessions, the master of a merchant vessel was sentenced to pay a fine and be imprisoned 12 months in Newgate for enticing seamen from the King's service.

[st george]

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.

[Kevin]

30 November

 

 

1652

Battle of Dungeness. Dutch fleet of 88 ships and 5 fireships, under Lt. Admiral Maarten Tromp, defeat English fleet of 42 ships, under Robert Blake

1780

HMS Shark (28), Cptn. Thomas Lloyd, foundered in a storm off North America

1803

British squadron, under Commodore John Loring of HMS Bellerophon (74) accepted the surrender of French vessels at Cape Francois, including French frigates Surveillante (40) and Clorinde (40), which were threated by the insurgents.

1811

Horrid mutiny and murder committed on hoard a prize ship in the Channel. The perpetrators were convicted, and hanged at Plymouth.

1812

HMS Subtle (10), Lt. Charles Brown (2), capsized off St. Bartholomew's in the West Indies when chasing an American privateer, Jack's Favorite.

1813

HMS Desiree, Cptn. Farquher, and gun-vessels attacked batteries at Cuxhaven.

[st george]

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.