7 September

[Anav]

On 7 September 1775, during the American Revolution, the first prize, the supply Ship Unity, was taken by the Continental Schooner Hannah, commanded by Nicholas Broughton.
Read more about the Continental Schooner Hannah:
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h2/hannah.htm --

1776 - David Bushnell attempts to destroy a British Ship of the Line, HMS Asia, in New York harbor with his submarine Turtle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Turtle

1814 - USS Wasp captures HMS Avon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(1814)

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On 7 September 1776, David Bushnell’s Turtle, was used by Sergeant Erza Lee to attack HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. Lee’s efforts to attach a "torpedo" to the ship's hull were frustrated by copper-sheathing, or marine growth, or perhaps merely a hard spot in the hull, which prevented the drill from boring into the ship bottom and drifted away.
Read more about the Submarine Turtle:
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t9/turtle-i.htm --
View "The Submarine Turtle: Naval Documents of the Revolutionary War"
on the Navy Department Library's Online Reading Room:
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/...sub_turtle.htm -- — 7 Sept 1776: Submarine Turtle attacked HMS Eagle (3 photos)

[David Manley]

Thats a "probable". As has been pointed out in the past there is no hard evidence that the Turtle actually existed.

[Coog]

Thats a "probable". As has been pointed out in the past there is no hard evidence that the Turtle actually existed.

There you go again.

[David Manley]

Going where again?

[Anav]

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson believed it was real and wrote about it. Good enough for me.

[David Manley]

They did, but they never saw it, and many of the accounts are contradictory. Like I said, "probable" but not certain.

[Anav]

On 7 September 1797, the U.S. Navy Frigate USS Constellation, the second of the original six Frigates, was launched. Notable service included the battles between the French frigate L’Insurgente and Vengeance during the Quasi-War with France, participation in the Barbary Wars where she helped capture the Algerian frigate Mashuda in 1815, and service in the West Indies Squadron against piracy and slavery. In 1845, Constellation was laid up in ordinary at Norfolk and was broken up in 1853. -
Read more about USS Constellation:
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c1...ellation-i.htm --
Read a related R&D report: "Fouled Anchors: The Constellation Question Answered" on the Defense Technical Information Center Website:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA241916 --

[Gunner]

They did, but they never saw it, and many of the accounts are contradictory. Like I said, "probable" but not certain.

Probable?
Whoops, forget that I said that.