Maritime History

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• 1833 - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego.
• 1940 - Arendskerk (Eagle's Church), Dutch merchantman, sunk by U-44
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Launchings, births, deaths

• 1906 - Aristotle Onassis born in Turkey, Turkish/Greek/Brazilian shipping magnate. (d. 15 March 1975)
• 1955 - Shell tanker Vasum launched from Nederlandse Dok & Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam, by Princess Beatrice (first official act as Princess).
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• 1968 - Stephen McConaghy, Australian class racer, 2006 World's 11-metre champions.
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• 1780 - Battle of Cape St. Vincent takes place, with the British Navy Admiral Sir Georg Rodney emerging victorious the next morning over the much smaller Spanish sqaudron under Don Juan de Lángara.
• 1858 - N.B. Palmer arrives New York from Shanghai in record 82 days (64 from Anjer. Departed Shanghai 25 October)

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1807 - Birth of Charles Henry Davis United States Navy Rear Admiral. (d. 1877)
• 1910 - David McCampbell born, USN Captain and air pilot, all-time US leading ace with 34 kills. (d. 30 June 1996)
• 1946 - Michael Coats born in Sacramento CA, USA, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 41-D, 29, 39)

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[Amgine]

• 1773 - Captain James Cook crosses Antarctic Circle (66º 33' S), first recorded.
• 1893 - Kindom of Hawai'i overthrown, Queen Lili'uokalani deposed by coup d'etat supported by USN Marines.
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• 1899 - The United States annexes Wake Island. (Currently there are competing territorial claims by the Marshall Islands and the Kingdom of EnenKio*, but the islands are administered by the USA)
• 1917 - USA pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, promulgated water-tight bulkheads in ship's holds, pioneered thermo-navigation, and other nautical innovations in his 8 trans-atlantic passages. (d. 17 April 1790)
• 1719 - William Vernon, born in New England, engaged in the triangle trade. (d. 22 December 1806)
• 1759 - Paul Cuffe born on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, shipbuilder, blockade runner, shipping magnate, emmigré to Sierra Leone. (d. 9 September 1817)
• 1871 - David Beatty born, British admiral of the Fleet (d. 1936)

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• 1778 - Captain James Cook first European to report the Hawai'ian Islands (he dies there on his return the next year.)
• 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• 1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1677 Jan van Riebeeck dies in Batavia (Jakarta), established the Dutch East India Company's station at Cape Town in 1652-1662. (b. 21 April 1619)

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• 1788 - Arthur Phillip founds a penal settlement in Sydney, Australia.
  • bio
• 1806 - The United Kingdom re-occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1839 - Aden conquered by British East India Company
• 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
• 1944 - U-641 sunk by British corvette HMS Violet south-west of Ireland, 50 die (all hands).

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1736 - Birth of James Watt of Scotland, inventor of a successful steam engine. (d. 19 August 1819)
  • bio by Andrew Carnegie (warning, book!)

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• 1840 - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
• 1841 - Hong Kong Island occupied by the British Empire.
• 1870 City of Boston vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard.
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• 1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
  • This came about as a part of the Treaty of Reciprocity of 1875, ratified 1887, allowing the U.S.A. lease of Wai Momi, in exchange for exclusive rights to export Hawai'ian sugar to the U.S.A. duty free.

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1883 - Admiral Sir Betram Home Ramsay born, British Navy and Commander Allied Naval Forces (d. 2 January 1945)
• 1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, dies in California. (b. 12 November 1836)
  • King Kalakaua had been forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, and his death led to the election of Liliʻuokalani as Queen and the overthrow of Hawai'ian Monarchy by intervention of the U.S.A. government and troops.
    
• 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Ottoman Turk, Greek, Brazilian shipping magnate. (or 15 January, d. 15 March 1975)

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• 1643 - Abel Tasman first European to report about Tonga.
• 1961 - Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria.

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, executed. (b. 1475)
• 1743 - Birth of John Fitch, inventor, first steam engine and ship in the United States. (d. 2 July 1798)
• 1795 - Samuel Wallis dies. (b. ca 1720)
  • English explorer & circumnavigator, discovers Tahiti among several others. (1766 - 1768, HMS Dolphin)
• 1954 - U.S.A.'s first Lady Mamie Eisenhower christens USS Nautilus, first nuclear submarine, for the USN.

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• 1771 - Spain and the United Kingdom announce agreement regarding the Falkland Islands, with Spain retaining Puerto Soledad and Britain retaining Port Egmont.
  • The declaration
    
• 1817 - Diana sinks off the coast of Malaysia
  
  • Cargo eventually recovered and sold at auction 1995
• 1873 - Northfleet rammed and sunk near Dungeness by the Spanish steamer Murillo, approximately 300 die.
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• 1906 - SS Valencia wrecked on a reef off Pechena Point, Vancouver Island.
  • The wreck led to the construction of the Pachena Light in 1908.
    

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1655 - Birth of Geleyn Evertsen, Netherlands Lieutenant-Admiral (d. 25 July 1721)
• 1921 - "Cap" George Streeter, Mississippi steamboat captain and micronationalist dies in Chicago, Illinois, USA (b. 1837)

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• 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
  • The fourth bridge to be built on the site, the Nicollet Avenue Bridge, continues to connect Minneapolis with the now-annexed St. Anthony Falls, and construction was begun before either city had officially incorporated.
    
• 1856 - The Steamer Pacific departs Liverpool bound for New York, never arrives. 185 lives lost.
  • Reports from the time
    
• 1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. The depth was measured to be 10,916 m (35,813 feet) but later measurements show it to be 10,911 m (35,798 feet).
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• 1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, for violating their territorial waters while spying.
  • More info than you can shake a website at.
    

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1730 - Birth of Joseph Hewes, U.S. revolutionary, member Continental Congress, and first Secretary of the Navy. (d. 10 November 1779)
• 1745 - William Jessop born, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
• 1833 - Death of Admiral Edward Pellew, of the British Navy. (b. 9 April 1757)

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[Amgine]

• 1616 Jaques le Maire and Willem Schouten discover the Straits of Le Maire.
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Launchings, births, deaths

• 1626 - Sir Samuel Argall dies, Admiral Virginia Company of London (b. ca December 1580)
• 1709 - Sir George Rooke dies, English rear admiral (b. 1650)
• 1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow dies, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
• 1962 - Stanley Lord dies, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
• 1965 - Birth of Ross MacDonald, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Olympic star bronze medalist 1992, silver 2004
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• 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1865 - The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
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• 1917 - The Danish West Indies are sold to the United States for $25 million.
  • The Danish West Indies are more commonly known today as the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Danes attempted to sell the islands to the U.S. in the late 19th century, but couldn't succeed in negotiations. The U.S. approached the Danes during WWI, which led to a deal finalized on 17 January, and ratified on 25 January in the USA.

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1841 - John Arbuthnot Fisher born, British Admiral of the Fleet (d. 10 July 1920)

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• 1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful U.S. seaplane.
• 1932 - British submarine HMS M-2 sinks in the English Channel (60 dead)
  • The M-2 was an aircraft-carrying/launching submarine, a rather interesting concept...
• 1962 - Canadian Marine Service renamed the Canadian Coast Guard
• 1968 - Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1887 - USN Admiral Marc Mitscher born, WWII (d. 3 Feruary 1947)
• 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto dies, German inventor of the internal combustion engine (b. 14 June 1833)
• 1925 - Birth of Desmond Cassidi, British admiral.

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• 1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1816 British Admiral Samuel Hood dies. (b. 12 December 1724)
• 1848 - Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro born (d. 30 May 1934)
• 1850 - Birth of Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 15 April 1912)
• 1900 - USN Admiral Hyman G. Rickover born, "Father of the Nuclear Navy". (d. 8 July 1986)

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• 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers Antarctica.
• 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico) to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
  • History of the Panama Railway
• 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
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• 1915 - The William P. Frye sunk by German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich in the South Atlantic, first U.S.A. shipping loss in WWI.
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• 1944 - U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
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• 1946 - Bluenose, famous Canadian fishing schooner and racer, founders on a Haitian reef. (l. 26 March 1921)
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• 1981 - Chemical tanker Lucor Wickliffe collides with tanker ship Olympic Glory near Galveston Bay, Texas, spilling 20,000 barrels of oil.
  • NOAA report
• 1986 Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing 7 crew members.

Launchings, births, deaths

• 1596 - Sir Francis Drake dies, English privateer, explorer, politician, and slaver. (b. ca 1540)
• 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer and mathematician, first scientific survey of the Rio Amazonas. (d. 4 February 1774)
• 2004 - Death of Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer, CO of USS Pueblo when captured by North Korea (b. 1927)