Category: This Day in Navy History

1799 – During the Quasi-War with France, USS Constellation, commanded by Capt. Thomas Truxtun, captures French frigate lInsurgente off Saint Kitts and Nevis Island.
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1942
While undergoing conversion at New York City pier 88, USS Lafayette (AP 53) catches fire resulting in the total loss of the ship.

1943
Organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends, bringing to a close the battle that started in August 1942.

1945
PV-1 Ventura patrol plane sinks small Japanese cargo vessel No.177 Nanshin Maru in Flores Sea west of Maumere.

1960
USS Sargo (SSN 583) becomes the third submarine to surface through the ice at the North Pole.

1862 – A joint amphibious expedition captures Roanoke Island, N.C., securing Norfolk Navy Yard and the eventual destruction of CSS Virginia.
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1862
During the Civil War, a joint amphibious expedition under the command of Flag Officer L. M. Goldsborough and U.S. Army Brigadier Gen. Ambrose Burnside captures Roanoke Island, N.C., securing Norfolk Navy Yard and eventually the destruction of CSS Virginia.

1890
A detachment of USS Omaha Sailors and Marines comes ashore at the town of Hodogaya, Japan, to assist in fighting an extensive fire.

1942
A Japanese destroyer sinks after being torpedoed by Navy submarine S37 (SS 142) the day before off Makassar.

1943
USS Snook (SS 279) attacks a Japanese convoy off the west coast of Kyushu and sinks the transport Lima Maru and survives depth charges about 30 miles southeast of Goto Retto.

1953
USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) conducts counter-battery fire on a gun shelling Korean sampans in the Kojo area, silencing the enemy guns.

1991
As part of Operation Desert Storm, USS Wisconsin (BB 64) attacks a dozen Iraqi artillery emplacements with 36 rounds of its 16-inch guns in support of a Marine reconnaissance probe into occupied Kuwait.

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