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“In August of 1964, in response to the American and GVN espionage along its coast, the DRV launched a local and controlled attack against C. Turner Joy and the U.S.S. Maddox , two American ships on call in the Gulf of Tonkin” (Brigham 2). This resulted in the United States government giving Lyndon Johnson the ability to make war under the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. President Johnson then gave orders to perform air raids on Northern Vietnam pushing the United States further into the war. Compared to 1962 when only 9,000 soldiers supported the South Vietnamese, by June 1965 82,000 soldiers occupied the country. The number only continued to rise exponentially, and by 1966 370,000 soldiers had been sent in to prop their South Vietnam allies. President Richard Nixon withdrew American soldiers from Vietnam and as part of the “vietnamization” of the war. Over and 60,000 American soldiers had been lost in a war to preserve the status quo, not to win.

The Battle of Midway was fought with a variety of naval ships such as battleships, destroyers, aircraft carriers, as well as naval planes and submarines. Many of these ships and planes were lost during this battle especially for the Japanese.(Cressman, Robert J., "No End Save Victory", Naval Historical Center, June 1998)

The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a series of reported confrontations between the USS Maddox on August 2nd and August 4th, 1964. The second of the two confrontations, on August 4th, was later proven to have never happened, and the legitimacy of the first confrontation on August 2nd is in question. The USS Maddox reported that on August 2nd, while patrolling in international waters, it was attacked by three North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats. President Johnson went on live television on August 4th saying that the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy were attacked again by Vietnamese boats. He used these attacks as reason to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that granted him the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia without a formal

Hunley. It was built with the intention of “attacking Union ships that were blockading Confederate seaports”. It was equipped with a long pole containing an explosive charge; this “spar torpedo” was used to place an explosive on an enemy vessel and detonate it. There was no air supply in the Hunley with the exception of the main compartment. The Hunley was the first submarine to successfully sink another ship. It was responsible for sinking the USS Housatonic, but after signaling its success, the Hunley itself sank. Overall, the Hunley suffered three tragedies. The first crew drowned on August 29th, 1864 followed by and the second crew on October 15th later that year. Inventor Horace Hunley himself was one of the many casualties of the CSS

The Navy Yard was established by the federal government in 1801 (although its operations officially began in 1806). Federal authorities purchased the old docks and around 40 acres of land for forty thousand dollars in 1801. It was the original site for the construction of Robert Fulton 's steam frigate, the Fulton, which was launched in 1815. A number of other historical vessels were also built there. There were also offices, warehouses, barracks, a power plant, a large radio station and store-houses built at the Navy Yard.

The USS Greer was the first US Navy ship to fire on a German ship, three months before the United States officially entered World War II on September 4, 1941. The incident was taken place during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The ship was approximately 125 miles southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland, it was carrying mail to the U.S. Marines stationed in Iceland. It was named after Rear Admiral James A. Greer, a Civil War veteran and commander of the European Squadron from 1887 to 1889. The Greer incident occurred because it was a case of mistaken evidence that was not reported just told by President Roosevelt at numerous press conferences without giving the American people full facts. As the Greer made its way through the North

In the thirty-eight years of the United States Naval Submarine Service no United States submarine had ever sunk an enemy vessel. With the ignition of the Second World War the poorly equipped and poorly trained Silent Service, nicknamed for the limited access of the media to the actions and achievements of the submarines, would be thrust into the position American submariners had longed for. The attack on Pearl Harbor left the United States Navy with few options for retribution. The three remaining aircraft carriers were to be “the last line of defense.” Commander Stuart S. Murray made the precarious situation clear to his skippers, captains, upon sending them on their first war patrol. He stressed the importance of smart sailing by

The U.S.S. Arizona was a World War Two era battleship that was destroyed beyond repair during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The ship was built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1914 to 1915. She was a 608 foot long, 31,400 ton, Pennsylvania-class battleship that cost sixteen-million dollars to build. It was christened in 1916 by Esther Ross with two bottles, one of water and one of wine by swinging the bottles on ropes to hit the bow, the front. The water bottle did not break in this process. The ship was originally to be named the U.S.S. North Carolina after the current Secretary of the Navy’s home state.

I served in the civil war, however, I was most famous for my quote at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, where I served as a admiral leading across a field of torpedoes, saying “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” After serving in the civil war in 1866, I was promoted to the rank of a four star admiral, which was new rank the United States created. I was the first person to serve as a rear, vice, and four star admiral. I died on August 14, 1870, and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx New York, where my monument

Towards the end of the 1930s, the United States government was preparing itself to progress from one despondency to another. Because the Great Depression was nearing its final months and the threat of becoming involved in the European war continuously intensified, it was decided that substantial amounts of energy, along with an ascending budget, was to be focused on developing military boats that could haul soldiers from ships to open beaches. In New Orleans, Andrew Jackson Higgins was known for manufacturing Eureka Boats, or shallow-watercrafts that assisted in the exploration of oil and gas throughout the Louisiana bayous. After many failed attempts Higgins was able to adapt his design

In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a major turning point in the United States military involvement in Vietnam. North Vietnamese warships had attacked United States warships, the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. C. Turner Joy, on two separate occasions in the Gulf of Tonkin. This action of violence from the North Vietnamese led to the passing of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War. Diem held control of the South Vietnamese Government, but he could not halt the communist infiltration of the South.

History One of the first submarines was built in 1623 and it was ordered by King James the first. The sub was built by Cornelius Drebbel. According to accounts from that time period it appeared to be a large enclosed rowboat using twelve oarsmen for propulsion. It is said to have made a trip down the Thames River submerged at a depth of about 15 feet. Some accounts go so far as to claim that James I took a ride in Drebbel's

By 1883, LV-16 was listed as “decayed and unserviceable” in the Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board. On September 15, the vessel was pulled from her station and taken to New Bedford, Massachusetts to be overhauled and repaired.

Beaufort, NC — The schooner Amelia set sail from Beaufort Harbor en route for Bristol, Rhode Island on April

The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the White Star Line found itself in a battle for steamship primacy with Cunard, a venerable British firm with two standout ships that ranked among the most sophisticated and luxurious of their time. Cunard’s Mauretania began service in 1907 and immediately set a speed record for the fastest transatlantic crossing that it held for 22 years. Cunard’s other masterpiece, Lusitania, launched the same year and was lauded for its spectacular interiors. It met its tragic end–and entered the annals of world history–on May 7, 1915, when a torpedo fired by a German U-boat sunk the ship, killing nearly 1,200 of the 1,959 people on board and precipitating the United States’ entry into World War I.