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16 June
Cornwallis's Retreat was a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a British Royal Navy battle squadron of five ships of the line and two frigates was attacked by a French Navy battlefleet of 12 ships of the line and 11 frigates in the waters off the west coast of Brittany on 16–17 June 1795.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...llis-s-Retreat
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-16-June
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17 June
On 17 June 1794, as the 38-gun French frigate Sibylle was anchored in Miconi along with three merchantmen bound for Cadie, she was met with a British convoy escorted by the 50-gun HMS Romney, under Capt. Paget, and three frigates.
On 17 June 1799 the squadron, consisting of the 40-gun Junon, 36-gun Alceste, 32-gun Courageuse, 18-gun Salamine and 14-gun Alerte under Contre-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée, while enroute from Jaffa for Toulon, was south of Toulon when it ran into a British squadron under the command of Captain John Markham of HMS Centaur.
On 17 June 1815, off the Algerian coast, the 38-gun frigate USS Constellation drove the 44-gun frigate Meshuda, the flagship of the Algerian Fleet, under the guns of Commodore Stephen Decatur's flagship, the 44-gun frigate USS Guerriere.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-17-June
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-off-Cape-Gata
USS Delaware enters drydock at Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Va., the first warship to enter a public drydock in the United States.
USS Mohican burns Mexican pirate ship Forward.
Navy Hospital Corps established.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-off-Cape-Gata
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18 June
On 18 June 1812 the U.S. Congress declared war on the United Kingdom, formally starting the conflict.
On 18 June 1815 The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-18-June
1812 - U.S. declares war on Great Britain for impressment of Sailors and interference with commerce.
1814 : USS Wasp captured British Brig Pallas .
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1306-June-18
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19 June
On 19 June 1793, as the 32-gun French frigate Cléopâtre sailed off Guernsey under Lieutenant de vaisseau Mullon, she encountered HMS Nymphe, under Captain Edward Pellew.
On 19 June 1808, off the Naze of Norway in the vicinity of the port of Kristiansand, the brig-sloop HMS Seagull, Commander Robert B. Cathcart, chased the Dano-Norwegian brig Lougen.
On the 19th of June 1815, a U.S. squadron, under the command of Stephen Decatur, defeated an Algerian brig off the coast of Spain.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-19-June
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...off-Cape-Palos
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20 June
On the 20th of June 1783, British and French ships fought the Battle of Cuddalore off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...e-of-Cuddalore
The Sack of Baltimore took place on June 20, 1631, when the village of Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by North African pirates from the North African Barbary Coast.
While Great Britain was at war with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson, in the 60-gun Centurion, led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture Spain's Pacific possessions.
1813 - Fifteen U.S. gunboats engage three British ships in Hampton Roads, Va.
1815 - Trials of Fulton I, built by Robert Fulton, are completed in New York. This ship would become the Navy's first steam-driven warship.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-20-June
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21 June
On June 21 1655, ships from the Venetian and Ottoman navies battled in the vicinity of the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...he-Dardanelles
On 21 June 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. Halifax Harbour had served as a Royal Navy seasonal base.
On 21 June 1798, the packet Princess Royal engaged the privateer Avanture, of Bordeaux.
On 21 June 1804 HMS Hippomenes engaged a Guadeloupe privateer, the Buonaparte.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-21-June
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22 June
On the 22 of June 1807, the HMS Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the USS Chesapeake in search of deserters from the British navy.
On 22 June 1814 the 14-gun brig USS Rattlesnake, under the command of Lt. James Renshaw, was captured by the 50-gun British frigate HMS Leander.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-22-June
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...Leopard-Affair
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23 June
The Battle of Groix was a large naval engagement which took place off the island of Groix on the Biscay coast of Brittany on 23 June 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-23-June
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24 June
While off Minorca on 24 June 1795 HMS Lowestoffe, a 32-gun frigate under Captain Robert Middleton, and HMS Dido, a 28-gun Frigate under Captain George Henry Towry, encountered two French frigates, the 42-gun Minerve and the 36-gun Artémise.
On 24 June 1808 the 36-gun HMS Salsette, under Captain Walter Bathurst, captured a Russian cutter.
On 24 June 1800 near Gibraltar, the 74-gun HMS Swiftsure, under Captain Benjamin Hallowell, was sighted by a French fleet under Admiral Ganteaume. Swiftsure was overtaken by the faster French fleet, consisting of four ships of the line and a frigate.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-24-June
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-HMS-Swiftsure
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26 June
On the 26th of June 1656, the Third Battle of the Dardanelles between the Venetians and the Ottomans started.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...he-Dardanelles
On the morning of 26 June 1799, the 24-gun HMS Champion engaged the 16-gun privateer Anacréon, out of Dunkirk.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-26-June
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27 June
1813 - USS President anchors in Bergen, Norway.
Boats of HMS Loire (40), Cptn. Frederick Maitland, captured Venteux (10) at anchor under a shore battery in the Isle de Bas Roads.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1335-June-27th
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28 June
The ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp engaged the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Reindeer in one of the hardest-fought naval actions in the War of 1812.
The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-28-June
1794 - Joshua Humphreys appointed master builder to build Navy ships at an annual salary of $2,000.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1339-JUNE-28TH
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29 June
On the 29th of June 1694, French and Dutch ships fought in the Battle of Texel, a naval engagement of the Nine Years’ War.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...attle-of-Texel
The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (June 29, 1776) was an important, early naval victory for the Continental Navy and the future "Father of the American Navy", Captain John Barry.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-29-June
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30 June
On the 30th of June 1815, the USS Peacock, a sloop-of-war, captured the HMS Nautilus, a 16-gun brig, in the final naval action of the War of 1812.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...he-War-of-1812
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-30-June
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1 July
On the 1st of July 1644, Danish and Swedish fleets fought the Battle of Colberger Heide off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
On 1 July 1801, Commodore Richard Dale’s squadron arrived at Gibraltar for the protection of American interests and to strike at the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...olberger-Heide
During the early morning of 1 July 1782, five American privateers, who had left Boston under the command of Captain Noah Stoddard, began to raid Lunenburg.
1797 - Naval Regulations passed by Congress.
1800 - First convoy duty; USS Essex escorts convoy of merchant ships from East Indies to U.S.
1801 - U.S. squadron under Commodore Dale enters Mediterranean to strike Barbary Pirates.
1850 - Naval School at Annapolis renamed Naval Academy.
1851 - Naval Academy adopts four year course of study.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...his-Day-1-July
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2 July
On the 2nd of July 1803, the HMS Minerve (40) ran aground, and was subsequently recaptured by the French.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...of-the-Minerve
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4 July
On this day 4 July - American Independence Day
On 4 July 1777, Captain John Paul Jones hoisted the first Stars and Stripes flag on board a Continental warship, the frigate Ranger, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1801 - First Presidential Review of U.S. Marine Band and Marines at the White House.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...dependence-Day
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?493-July-4th
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5 July
On the 5th of July 1770, the Battle of Chesma began in and around Çeşme Bay, on the west coast of Turkey.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...ttle-of-Chesma
1814 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures British Stranger, Venus, Adiona and Fortitude.
1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron arrives at Tripoli to collect.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?494-July-5th
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6 July
On the 6th of July 1779, British and French fleets fought the Battle of Grenada, an engagement taking place in the West Indies as part of the American War of Independence.
On 6 July 1747, John Paul Jones was born at Arbigland, Scotland.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...tle-of-Grenada
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7 July
On July 7, 1798 Congress rescinded treaties with France and is considered the beginning of the Quasi-War.
The U.S. warship, Delaware, commanded by Capt. Stephen Decatur, Sr., captured a French privateer, La Croyable, off Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, on 7 July 1798.
1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat lands at Monterey and claims California for U.S.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...his-Day-7-July
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1359-July-7th
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8 July
On the 8th of July 1716, Venetian and Turkish fleets battled off the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea.
On 8 July 1777, British Frigate HMS Rainbow and the Brig HMS Flora chased the Continental Frigates Boston and Hancock and her prize, British Frigate HMS Fox, off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...sland-of-Corfu
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9 July
On the 9th of July 1790, Russian and Swedish fleets fought the Battle of Svensksund in the Gulf of Finland.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-of-Svensksund
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...his-Day-9-July
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10 July
On the 10th of July 1778, the HMS Lively was sailing to Ushant, an island off of northwest France, to join Admiral Keppel’s fleet. As the morning fog lifted, the British 20-gun post ship found itself in the proximity of a French fleet.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...vely-encounter
On 10 July 1911, King George V fixed his signature to the approval for the Commonwealth Naval Forces to be renamed the Royal Australian Navy.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-10-July
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11 July
On 11 July 1798 the United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
On the 11th of July 1803, the HMS Racoon captured the French ship Lodi.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-11-July
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-day-11-July
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12 July
The Second Battle of Algeciras (also known as the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar) was a naval battle fought on the night of 12 July 1801 between a squadron of British Royal Navy ships of the line and a larger squadron of ships from the Spanish Navy and French Navy in the Gut of Gibraltar.
On 12 July 1814 HMS Landrail was in the Channel on her way to Gibraltar with dispatches when she encountered the American privateer Syren.
On 12 July 1814 the USS Syren, a 16-gun brig-sloop under the command of Lieutenant N.J. Nicholson, encountered the British ship HMS Medway a 74-gun third rate ship of the line.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-12-July
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...e-of-Algeciras
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13 July
On 13 July 1854, the Sloop USS Cyane bombarded San Juan del Norte (Greytown), Nicaragua, in retaliation for ill-treatment of US Citizens.
On 13 July 1812, the Frigate Essex, under the command of Captain David Porter, captured the British Merchant Brig Lamprey in the Atlantic.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1372-13-July
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14 July
14th July 1789 - The French Revolution starts.
On 14 July 1813, during the War of 1812, Lieutenant John M. Gamble became the first Marine to command a Ship in battle.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-day-July-14th
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-14-July
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15 July
On the 16th of July 1798, the United States Congress created the rank of Rear Admiral to honor the leadership and service of David Glasgow Farragut.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...l-for-Farragut
Napoleon surrendered aboard the 74-gun HMS Bellerophon under the command of Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-15-June
On the 15th of July 1798, the HMS Lion (64) engaged four Spanish frigates.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-four-frigates
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16 July
On 16 July 1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-16-July
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17 July
On the 17th of July 1788, Swedish and Russian fleets fought the Battle of Hogland in the Gulf of Finland.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...tle-of-Hogland
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18 July
1775 - Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels.
1779 - Commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.
1792 - John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France.
1813 - U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...?506-July-18th
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19 July
On the 19th of July 1805, the French frigate Topaze (40), and corvettes Départment des Landes (22), Torche (18), and Faune (16) captured the HMS Blanche off the coast of Puerto Rico.
On the 19th of July 1806, the newly named HMS Blanche, formally the Spanish ship Amfitrite, captured the Guerrière.
On 19 July 1545 the English warship Mary Rose sank during the Battle of the Solent.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...f-two-Blanches
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-19-July
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20 July
On the 20th of July 1866, Austrian and Italian fleets fought the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...attle-of-Lissa
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Lissa was a very interesting battle from a technical point of view. I think we last refought this one about 10 years back - Hallmark 1/2400 models and Iron and Fire rules.
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21 July
On the 21st of July 1781, French and British ships fought off the harbor of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-of-Louisbourg
On 21 July 1545 French troops landed on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-21-July
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22 July
On the 22nd of July 1805, the Battle of Cape Finisterre was fought between British and Franco-Spanish fleets off the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain.
On 22 July 1802, during the First Barbary War, the Frigate Constellation, commanded by Captain Alexander Murray, defeated nine Corsair Gunboats off Tripoli.
The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
1905 - Body of John Paul Jones moved to Annapolis, MD for reburial.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ape-Finisterre
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-22-July
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23 July
On the 23rd of July 1810, British and Dano-Norwegian ships fought the Battle of Silda off the shore of, the modern-named county, Sogn og Fjordane.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...attle-of-Silda
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24 July
On the 24th of July 1797, Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm in the midst of the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...uz-de-Tenerife
1813- Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...?513-July-24th