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3 September
On 3 September 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolution.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...07-3-September
1782 - As a token of gratitude for French aid during the American Revolution, the United States gives America (first ship-of-the-line built by U.S.) to France to replace a French ship lost in Boston.
1783 - Signing of the Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution.
Series of battles around St George's Caye began on this day in 1798
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...0-03-September
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4 September
The naval Battle of Les Formigues (Catalan) took place probably in the early morning of 4 September 1285 near Les Formigues Islands, about 85 km northeast of Barcelona, when a Catalan-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a French and Genoese galley fleet commanded by Guilhem de Lodeva, Henry di Mari, and John de Orrea.
On 4 September 1804, the ketch Intrepid, outfitted with a large explosive charge to destroy the enemy fleet in Tripoli harbor, was apparently intercepted while entering the harbor and destroyed in a violent explosion.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Les-Formigues
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-September-4th
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5 September
On 5 September 1813, the USS Enterprise of 16 guns with 102 men sighted HMS Boxer of 14 guns with 66 men off Pemaquid Point, Maine, and closed on the enemy brig.
The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.
The Battle of Hudson's Bay, also known as the Battle of York Factory, was a naval battle fought during the War of the Grand Alliance (known in England's North American colonies as "King William's War").
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ay-5-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ee-engagements
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6 September
On the night of September 6, 1776, Ezra Lee piloted the submarine Turtle up to the Eagle, which was moored off what is today called Governors Island, due south of Manhattan.
The Capture of HMS Savage refers to a naval battle of the Revolutionary War involving the American privateer Congress and the British sloop-of-war HMS Savage. It occurred on 6 September 1781 off South Carolina and is considered one of the hardest fought single ship actions of the war.
Commander Charles Napier led the 18-gun brig HMS Recruit into action against the 20-gun French corvette Diligente, under Jean-François Lemaresquier, on 6 September 1808.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ay-6-September
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7 September
The Ganj-i-Sawai or Gang-i-Sawai (meaning "Exceeding Treasure", and often Anglicized as Gunsway) was a heavily armed trading ship belonging to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb which, along with its escort the Fateh Muhammed, was captured on 7 September 1695 by the English pirate Henry Every en route from present day Mocha, Yemen to Surat, India.
The Capture of Veloz Passagera was a single ship action that occurred during the United Kingdom's blockade of Africa in the early and mid 19th century.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ay-7-September
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8 September
On 8 September 1812 the schooner HMS Laura, under the command of Lieutenant Charles Newton Hunter, encountered the French privateer brig Diligent (or Diligente or Diligence) off the Delaware River.
On 8 September 1923, in a disaster at Honda Point, California, seven destroyers were run aground through bad weather, strong currents, and faulty navigation.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ay-8-September
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9 September
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the "United States" of America.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-United-States
1825 - USS Brandywine sails for France to carry the Marquis de Lafayette home after his yearlong visit to America.
1841 - First iron ship authorized by Congress.
Born this day in 1776, Philip Broke, later to become captain of HMS Shannon
On 9 September 1813 10-gun cutter HMS Alphea encountered, south-west of Start Point, the French 14-gun privateer cutter Renard.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...95-9-September
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10 September
The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812.
The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single-ship action on September 10, 1779, part of the American Revolutionary War.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-10-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...e-of-Lake-Erie
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11 September
We will never forget.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-11-September
The Battle of Plattsburgh, a combined land/naval action, was fought on Lake Champlain near, as well as in the actual town of, Plattsburgh, New York. The result of this battle was a crushing American victory, which not only brought a British invasion to a screaming halt, but also prevented Britain gaining any advantage from two years of war, including the burning of the American national capitol.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...t-Notable-Feat
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-11-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...7-11-September
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12 September
On 12 September 1804, in the First Barbary War, the frigates Constellation and President captured two ships while attempting to enter Tripoli harbor during the blockade, while the brig Argus and Constellation later captured a third vessel attempting to enter.
On 12 September 1855, Marines and Sailors from the U.S. Navy Sloop USS John Adams landed at Nukulau, Fiji Islands to seek owed debt to Americans from the King of Fiji, Cakobau.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...September-12th
On 12 September 1810, the 10-gun schooner HMS Alban, under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Thomas, was off Læsø island when she saw six Danish gunboats coming towards her from the direction of the Skaw.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-12-September
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13 September
The Action of 13 September 1810 was an inconclusive frigate engagement during the Napoleonic Wars between British Royal Navy and French Navy frigates during which a British frigate was defeated by two French vessels near Isle de France (now Mauritius), but British reinforcements were able to recapture the ship before the French could secure her.
On the morning of 13 September 1814, during the War of 1812, the British attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor with a bombing that lasted 25 hours. “By the Dawn’s Early Light“ the next morning, the sight of Fort McHenry’s flag and the British withdrawing from Baltimore, inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-flying-around
On 9 September Vice-Admiral Mitchell detached Arrow (20) and Wolverine (14) to attack a ship and a brig belonging to the Batavian Republic and anchored under the Vlie at the entrance to the Texel.
On September 13th Lark chased a Spanish privateer schooner along the coast of Cuba until evening, when the schooner took refuge within the Portillo Reefs.
On This Day 1782 - Spanish and French Assault on Gibraltar (under siege since June 1779)
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-13-September
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14 September
The Action of 14 September 1779 was a minor naval engagement between a British Royal Naval frigate HMS Pearl and a Spanish frigate Santa Mónica off the Azores during the American War of Independence.
On 14 September the ships of the line HMS Belleisle under Captain William Hargood, HMS Bellona under Captain John Erskine Douglas and the frigate HMS Melampus under Captain Stephen Poyntz were cruising off Cape Henry in search of Strachan's flagship HMS Caesar when they spotted a ship sailing under jury masts to the southwest. Closing to investigate, they discovered that the stranger was the French ship Impétueux, left in a dismasted and leaking state by the hurricane and desperately attempting to reach a harbour in the United States.
On 14 September 1814, during the War of 1812, the Sloop-of-War Wasp, commanded by Johnston Blakely, captured and burned the British Merchant Brig Bacchus in the Atlantic.
On 14 September HMS IMMORTALITE (Capt. OWEN), in company with the PERSEUS and EXPLOSION bombs, attacked the batteries protecting the town of Dieppe and the 17 vessels building there.
1805 - Vice Admiral Nelson sails from Portsmouth for the last time in HMS Victory.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...of-engagements
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-14-September
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15 September
The Battle of Vizagapatam was a minor naval engagement fought in the approaches to Vizagapatam harbour in the Coastal Andhra region of British India on the Bay of Bengal on 15 September 1804 during the Napoleonic Wars.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...m-their-shores
On 15 September 1816, to escape a gale, Lieutenant John Jackson took the 12-gun schooner HMS Whiting into harbour at Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. The wind dropped as they came around Stepper Point, and the ship ran aground on the Doom Bar as the tide was ebbing, stranding her.
1806 HMS Anson (64), under the command of Captain Lydiard, encountered the French Foudroyant, 84, under jury rig some 15 miles off Havana.
1808 HMS Laurel (22) captured by the French frigate Canonniere (44), off Port Louis in Mauritius.
Oh, and on a more personal note, this day in 1994 HMS Brazen was refloated after grounding in the Patagonian canal several days previously.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-15-September
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16 September
On 16 September 1814, Commodore Daniel T. Patterson led a squadron from the schooner Carolina in a joint Army and Navy attack to raid the base of the pirate Jean Laffite at Barataria, Louisiana, capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates fled.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...8-16-September
On 16 September 1812 the American privateer schooner Rossie, Captain Joshua Barney, captured the Post Office Packet Service packet ship Princess Amelia.
Moving on a bit its also the anniversary of the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-16-September
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17 September
On 17 September 1807, HMS Barbara, encountered the French privateer Général-Ernouf.
On 17 September 1787, the Continental Convention signed The Constitution of the United States at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, replacing the Articles of the Confederation.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-French-Pératy
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...4-17-September
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18 September
On 18 September 1860, the Sloop of War USS Levant sailed from Hawaii for Panama. She was never seen again.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...September-18th
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19 September
On 19 September 1777, during the American Revolution, the British Cutter HMS Alert captured the Continental Brig Lexington.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...September-19th
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20 September
On the 20th of September 1811, the HMS Naiad, under the command of Captain Philip Carteret, was engaged by a flotilla of French gunboats off the coast of Boulogne.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-the-HMS-Naiad
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21 September
On this day 21 September - HMS Naiad and the French Flotilla - day 2
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...Flotilla-day-2
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22 September
On the morning of September 22, 1857, the Russian Ship of the Line Lefort was within the Gulf of Finland en route from Reval (present day Tallinn, Estonia) to Kronstadt along with the ships Imperatritsa Aleksandra, Vladimir, and Pamiat Asova when she was caught in a sudden squall and the Lefort heeled over once, righted herself, then heeled over again and sank between the islands of Gogland and Bolshoy Tyuters, five and a half nautical miles north-northeast of Bolshoy Tyuters, with the loss of all 826 people on board.
1776 - John Paul Jones sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-22-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...September-22nd
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23 September
The Battle of Flamborough Head was a naval battle that took place on 23 September 1779, in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between an American Continental Navy squadron led by John Paul Jones and the two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy.
USS President captured HMS Highflyer on 23 September 1813 off Nantucket Sound.
The Merchant Royal also known as Royal Merchant, was a 17th century English merchant ship lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall in rough weather on 23 September 1641.
The Battle of San Juan de Ulúa was a battle between English privateers and Spanish forces at San Juan de Ulúa (in modern Veracruz) on 23 September 1568.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-23-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...amborough-Head
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25 September
The Action of 25 September 1806 was a naval battle fought during the Napoleonic Wars off the French Biscay port of Rochefort.
On 25 September 1801 a privateer hoisting the Spanish flag unsuccessfully engaged the schooner HMS Pickle in a single-ship action.
On 25 September 1805, the 56-gun HMS Calcutta, under the command of Captain Daniel Woodriff, was escorting a convoy in the Channel south of the Isles of Scilly when lookouts spotted a number of unknown vessels in the distance.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-25-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...uadrons-engage
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26 September
Captain Daniel Woodriff CB (17 November 1756 – 25 February 1842) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He made two voyages to Australia.
On 26 September 1860, the U.S. Navy Sloop-of-War Constellation, commanded by J.S. Nicholas, captured the American slaver Cora with 705 slaves on board off the Congo River.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ficed-his-ship
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27 September
The Président, at 03:30 on 27 September 1806, while sailing in the Bay of Biscay, Captain Labrosse sighted six ships of the line. This overwhelming force was a squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Louis, which had been sent to the Bay of Biscay to await the return of Willaumez from the Caribbean.
On 27 September 1860, a landing party of Marines with field Artillery were put ashore at Panama from the Sloop-of-War USS St. Mary’s during an insurrection.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...gate-Président
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28 September
On 28 September 1822, under Commodore David Porter’s West India Squadron, the Sloop-of-War USS Peacock helped raid a pirate camp at Funda Bay.
Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...9-28-September
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...2-28-September
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29 September
On this day 29 September - Lord Nelson is born
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...Nelson-is-born
On 29 September 1808 the brig HMS Maria, under the command of Lieutenant James Bennett, was sailing off Guadeloupe when she encountered the French corvette Department des Landes.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-29-September
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30 September
1800 - United States concludes Treaty of Peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...September-30th
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1 October
The Battle of Havana was an engagement between the British Caribbean squadron and a Spanish squadron based near Havana.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ttle-of-Havana
The capture of the Jeune Richard was the result of a naval engagement that took place in the Caribbean on 1 October 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, between the British packet ship Windsor Castle, and the French privateer Jeune Richard.
1800 - U.S. schooner Experiment captures French schooner Diana.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-1-October
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3 October
On 3 October 1808, the French brig Palinure, engaged the British Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Carnation, under Commander Charles Mars Gregory, 180 miles northeast of Martinique.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-HMS-Carnation
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-3-October
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4 October
The Action of 4 October 1710, took place during the Great Northern War, in Køge Bay, just south of Copenhagen.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-4-October
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5 October
The Battle of Cape Santa Maria (also known as the Battle of Cape St Mary; in Spanish Batalla del Cabo de Santa María) was a naval action that took place on 5 October 1804 off the southern Portuguese coast.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-5-October
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6 October
The Action of 6 October 1779 was a minor but famous and furious naval engagement that took part in the early stages of the war between Britain and France in the American War of Independence between the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Quebec and the frigate Surveillante of the French Navy.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...endence-(U-S-)
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7 October
The Action of 7 October 1795 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars during which a French squadron led by Rear-Admiral Joseph de Richery captured a large British convoy of thirty-one merchant vessels.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...British-convoy
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8 October
On the 8th of October, 1808, the HMS Modeste (44) captured the French corvette Iéna (18) in the Bay of Bengal.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-corvette-Iéna
On 8 October 1800, at 8:00 A.M., the British schooner HMS Gipsy, with 10 long 4-pounders and 42 men commanded by Lieutenant Coryndon Boger, was cruising off the north end of Guadeloupe when she sighted and gave chase to the armed sloop Quidproquo.
1812 - A boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in the Niagara River.
1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny of USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China, urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. His negotiations are successful.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-8-October
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9 October
On 9 October 1812, HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit (formerly the American armed brig Adams, which had been captured after the Siege of Detroit) were anchored near Fort Erie in the upper reaches of the Niagara River. An American boat expedition commanded by Lieutenant Jesse Elliott captured the two ships.
On 9 October 1799 HMS Lutine sank with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-9-October
The USNI was started at the U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis on 9 October, 1873.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...stitute-(USNI)
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10 October
On the 10th of October 1795, the HMS Mermaid captured the French brig Brutus.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ch-brig-Brutus
The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Huracán San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, and the 1780 Disaster is probably the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...Day-10-October
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11 October
The naval Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain.
1824 - Marquis de Lafayette visits the Washington Navy Yard during his yearlong tour of America. He returned to the yard October 12, to continue his visit.
The Battle of Camperdown (known in Dutch as the Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-of-Camperdown
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12 October
USS Boston was cruising about six hundred miles northeast of Guadeloupe when, on the morning of Sunday, 12 October 1800, she sighted a ship and a schooner. They separated, and she chased the ship. The ship proved to be the French national ship Le Berceau.
The Battle of Tory Island (sometimes called the Battle of Donegal, Battle of Lough Swilly or Warren's Action) was a naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought on 12 October 1798 between French and British squadrons off the northwest coast of County Donegal, then in the Kingdom of Ireland.
The Battle of Havana was an engagement that occurred on 12 October 1748 between the British Caribbean squadron and a Spanish squadron based near Havana.
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...Day-12-October
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...of-Tory-Island