* 1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.

The fight between the USS Constellation and L ' Insurgente ( William Bainbridge Hoff )

The next day, William Giannotti conducted the first U. S. combat operation using an " aqualung " when he dove on the USS Pledge ( AM-277 ).

* USS Crane ( DD-109 ), a Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane

* USS William Badger ( 1861 ), an American Civil War Union supply ship and ship's tender

One was USS Anacapa ( AG-49 ) formerly the lumber transport Coos Bay which was converted to Q-ship duty as project " Love William ".

* Tommy Lee Jones as William " Bill " Strannix, a renegade, embittered ex-CIA operative who leads the team of terrorists who took over USS Missouri.

In the non-canon Star Trek: Titan novel series, Tuvok joins William Riker on the USS Titan as tactical officer, leaving Voyager.

Note: In 1968, Navy Captain William McGonagle ( 1925 -- 1999 ) was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the USS Liberty incident on June 8 -- 9, 1967.

An Admiral Benson Class transport ship, the USS Admiral W. S. Sims ( AP-127 ), was renamed USAT General William O. Darby in the 40's.

* USS Tiger Shark is the setting for the movie, " Submarine Command " ( 1951 ) starring William Holden as a submarine captain haunted by a life and death decision made during wartime.

The US Navy Polaris nuclear submarine USS Lewis and Clark was named for him and William Clark.

** USS William P. Lawrence ( DDG-110 )

It comprised the frigates USS Guerriere, the flag ship, with 44 guns, commanded by Captain William Lewis ; Constellation, with 36 guns, commanded by Captain Charles Gordon, and Macedonia with 38 guns, under the command of Captain Jacob Jones ; the sloops-of-war Eperyie, commanded by Captain John Downes, and Ontario with 16 guns, commanded by Captain Jesse D. Elliott ; the brigs Firefly, Spark and Flambeau, each with 14 guns, commanded by Lieutenants George W. Kodgers, Thomas Gamble, and John B. Nicholson ; and the schooners Torch and Spitfire, both with 12 guns, commanded by Lieutenants Wolcott Chauncey and Alexander J. Dallas.

In William Shatner's novel Avenger, Captain Christine McDonald of the USS Tobias tells Captain Kirk that in her time, the Kobayashi Maru scenario is no longer used to test character, but rather to evaluate the very " original thinking " for which Kirk had received a commendation.

The ship he was in, USS Philadelphia, struck rocks off Tripoli, and along with his Commodore, William Bainbridge, he was kept imprisoned by the pirates for 19 months.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

USS G-4 at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1912In the beginning of the 20th century Philadelphia had taken on a poor reputation.

During his seven-month journey on the transport USS Lexington around Cape Horn, assigned as aide-de-camp to Commodore William Shubrick, he translated Henri Jomini's Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon, which further enhanced his reputation for scholarship.

) William Belden ejects from an A-4E Skyhawk on the deck of the USS Shangri-La ( CV-38 ) | USS Shangri-La in the western Pacific circa 29 July 1970.

The destroyer USS William Jones ( DD-308 ) was named in his honor.

" Among the vessels that were sent was the USS Philadelphia which, in October, 1803, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, was sent to blockade Tripoli.

The Navy destroyer, the USS Eaton, named after General William Eaton

In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

** Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The USS John C. Calhoun was a Fleet Ballistic Missile nuclear submarine, in commission from 1963 to 1994.

* USS C-5 ( SS-16 ), a 1908 United States Navy C class submarine

The US Navy frigate USS Thomas C. Hart ( FF-1192 ) was named in his honor.

* Frederick Curtice Davis, Navy Cross recipient, the USS Frederick C. Davis ( DE-136 ) was named after him.

Because of his work with the Armed Services committee ( 1969 – 1980 ) he became known as the " Father of America's Modern Navy ", and he was subsequently honored by having a supercarrier, USS John C. Stennis ( CVN-74 ) named after him.

The USS John C. Stennis ( CVN-74 ) | USS John C. Stennis.

* USS John C. Stennis Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Strike Group

The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS Monitor.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

* USS Aquila ( AK-47 ), an Aquila-class cargo ship commissioned by the U. S. Navy for service in World War II

* USS Aquila ( PHM-4 ), a hydrofoil formerly operated by the U. S. Navy

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

* 1963 – 129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.

USS Allioth ( AK-109 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

ASROC launch from USS Joseph Strauss ( DDG-16 ) | USS Joseph Strauss ( DDG-16 ), in 1978.

* USS Bell, either of two U. S. Navy ships

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.

Copies of some inquiries are not online and may have to be ordered ; for example, the losses of Flight 19 or USS Cyclops can be ordered direct from the United States Naval Historical Center.

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

The USS Capricornus ( AKA-57 / LKA-57 ), an, was named after the constellation.