1776: In the first cruise of a Continental Navy squadron, Commodore Esek Hopkins sails from Philadelphia, with orders to destroy British shipping in the Chesapeake Bay. View More Today …

The U.S. Navy’s creation and development extended over nearly a quarter of a century, from the American Revolution to the Quasi-War with France, and proceeded in the face of numerous …

2019年2月11日 · “Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great …

The Histories Branch researches and writes the multi-volume Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, available in many libraries in the United States and abroad. Compiled like an …

2021年8月13日 · ♦Operation NEPTUNE (Naval Aspects of Operation OVERLORD) Administrative History United States Naval Administrative History of World War II #147E [1948] ♦Operations …

The Role of the United States Navy in the Formation and Development of the Federal German Navy, 1945-1970; Rommel and the Atlantic Wall; Royal Works USS Lexington [Crossing the …

Navy’s 249th Birthday. On Oct. 13, 1775, a resolution to commission a vessel of war by the Continental Congress established the foundation for what is now the United States Navy: “a …

On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by …

2016年2月22日 · United States joined the Mediterranean Squadron in 1847 and served in European waters until ordered home late in 1848. She was decommissioned on 24 February …

2025年2月3日 · Submarines have a long history in the United States, beginning with Turtle, during the American Revolution. The world’s first combat submarine, invented by David Bushnell, …