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This Day in Naval History - Sept. 29
1944 - USS Narwhal (SS 167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived the sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao. 1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 26
1781 - French fleet defeats British at Yorktown, Va. 1910 - First recorded reference to provision for aviation in Navy Department organization. 1918 - USS Tampa lost with 118.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 25
1912 - Battleship (BB 32) commissioned. 1925 - Submarine S-51 (SS 162) sinks after collision with SS City of Rome off . 1941 - In first successful U.S. Navy escort of convoys during World War II…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 24
1918 - Ensign David S. Ingalls, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 23
1779 - Captain John Paul Jones, in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard, captures HMS Serapis. 1931 - Lt. Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 22
1776 - John Paul Jones sails into , and attacks British fishing fleet. 1943 - destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at . 1989 - After Hurricane Hugo…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 19
1915 - Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels organizes the Naval Consulting Board to mobilize the scientific resources of the United States for national defense.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 18
1926 - Navy brings relief aid to Miami after a severe hurricane. 1936 - Squadron 40-T, based in the Mediterranean, established to protect U.S. interests and citizens…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 17
1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of south of . This was the headquarters for Adm. David Farragut's Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron. 1895 - Battleship commissioned.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 16
1854 - Cmdr. David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific. 1917 - Navy Department authorizes establishment of 16 Naval air stations abroad. 1922 - Cmdr.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 15
1944 - Invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands, after several days of intensive carrier aircraft bombing and ship bombardment. 1950 - forces under Vice Adm. Arthur Struble…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 11
1814 - In the Battle of Lake Champlain, Commodore Thomas Macdonough defeats a British Squadron. 1939 - USS Bear (AG 29) is commissioned by the U.S. Navy for Antarctic…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 10
1925 - Submarine R-4 (SS 81) rescues crew of PN-9 plane 10 miles from their destination of Hawaii. 1945 - Carrier Midway (CVB 42) commissioned. 1961 - World's first…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 08
1923 - In disaster at , seven destroyers run aground through faulty navigation. 1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims a limited national emergency and…
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 05
1775 - Adoption of first uniforms for Navy officers. 1813 - USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off . 1918 - USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off . 1923 - U.S.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 04
1804 - USS Intrepid (Lt. Richard Somers) blew up in failed attack on . 1941 - A German submarine, U-652, attacks USS Greer (DD 145), which was tracking the submarine southeast of .
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 03
1782 - As a token of gratitude for French aid during the American Revolution, the United States gives America (first ship-of-the-line built by U.S.) to France to replace a French ship lost in Boston.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 14
1899 - Gunboat Concord and monitor Monterey capture two insurgent schooners at Aparri, Philippine Islands. 1939 - Atlantic Squadron Neutrality Patrol ships deploy. 1976 - USS John F.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 28
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures five pirate vessels. 1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships. 1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race.
This Day in Naval History - Sept. 27
1922 - Report on observations of experiments with short wave radio at Anacostia in the District of Columbia starts Navy development of radar. 1941 - Launch of first Liberty ship…