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Naval History
Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history.
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On June 12, 1775 the Rhode Island Assembly commissioned armed ships to fight the British Navy. That Fall on October 13, 1775 the Second Continual Congress established the United States Navy marking this date as the Navy’s official birthday.
The first United States naval vessel was the USS Ganges, built in Philadelphia as a merchant vessel. She was bought by the US Navy, fitted out with 24 guns for a crew of 220 men, and commissioned on 24 May 1798. Following this, John Paul Jones was appointed
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― Suppressed I Rise
― Suppressed I Rise
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When the big German guns at Calais fired on us, we realized, we had been strafed by Spitfires from the RAF during working up exercises for the invasion, accidentally attacked by the USN off Normandy after D-Day and shelled by the British Army in the English Channel. It was about time the enemy took a few shots at us too!"
Jack Harold, RCNVR, Signalman
HMCS TRENTONIAN
Chapter 9, White Ensign Flying -The Story of HMCS TRENTONIAN.
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― White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
― White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
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