USS Essex, Artist: Joseph Howard (Courtesy U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection)USS Essex, Artist: Joseph Howard (Courtesy U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection)
Today in U.S. Naval History - March 25
1813 - USS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific
1898 - Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation
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