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This Day in Naval History - Oct. 03
1955 - USS Saipan (CVL 48) begins disaster relief in , rescuing people and delivering supplies. Operations end Oct. 10. 1962 - Sigma 7 (Mercury 8), piloted by Navy Cmdr. Walter M.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 02
1799 - Washington Navy Yard is established. 1842 - The sloop, , wrecks with the loss of three lives in the . 1939 - Foreign ministers of Western Hemisphere countries…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 01
1800 - schooner Experiment captures French schooner Diana. 1844 - The Naval Observatory, headed by Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury, occupies its first permanent quarters. 1874 - Supply Corps purser Lt.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 17
1922 - Lt. Cmdr. Virgil C. Griffin, in a Vought VE-7SF makes first the takeoff from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV 1) anchored in York River, Va.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 18
1812 - U.S. sloop of war Wasp captures HM brig Frolic. 1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, Va., and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 16
1885 - Navy Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan becomes superintendent of the Naval War College. 1891 - A brawl between American Sailors and Chilean nationals outside the True Blue Saloon in Valparaiso…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 05
1863 - Confederate steamer David seriously damages USS New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, S.C. 1913 - OWL (Over Water Land Type), the Navy's first amphibian flying boat…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 19
1843 - Capt. Robert Stockton on Princeton, the first screw-propelled naval steamer, challenges British merchant ship Great Western to a race off New York, which Princeton won easily.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 4
1821 - Lt. Robert F. Stockton sails from Boston for Africa to carry out orders to help stop the international slave trade. 1944 - Aircraft from USS Ranger (CV 4)…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 08
1812 - A boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in the Niagara River. 1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny of USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 12
1914 - USS Jupiter (AC 3) is first Navy ship to complete transit of the Panama Canal. 1944 - Aircraft from Carrier Task Force 38 attack Formosa. 1957 - Rear Adm. G.J.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 13
1775 - The Continental Congress establishes a Continental Navy, later known as the U.S. Navy. 1943 - The Destroyer Bristol (DD 453) is sunk, with the loss of 52 lives…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 1
1800 - U.S. schooner Experiment captures French schooner Diana. 1844 - The Naval Observatory, headed by Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury, occupies its first permanent quarters.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 6
1884 - The Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. 1940 - The fourth group of eight U.S. destroyers involved in the Destroyers…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 14
1918 - Naval aviators of Marine Day Squadron 9 make the first raid-in-force for the Northern Bombing Group in World War I, when they bombed a German railroad at Thielt Rivy, Belgium.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 18
1812 - U.S. sloop of war Wasp captures HM brig Frolic. 1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, Va., and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 15
1917 - USS Cassin (DD 43) is torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off the coast of Ireland. In trying to save the ship, Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram becomes first…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 27
1864 - Lt. William Cushing sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch. 1922 - Navy League of the United States sponsors…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 26
1921 - In first successful test, a compressed-air, turntable catapult, launches a N-9 seaplane. 1922 - Lt. Cmdr. Godfrey de Chevalier makes fhe first landing aboard a carrier…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 28
1864 - Steamer General Thomas and gunboat Stone River destroy Confederate batteries on Tennessee River near Decatur, Ala. 1882 - Orders issued for first naval attache (Lt. Cmdr.