In the Navy and Marine Corps, the Combat " V " may also be authorized to denote direct participation in combat operations.

In 1990 the Navy authorized the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program ( SRP ) to recycle nuclear-powered ships at PSNS.

Since neither the Congress nor the President appears to have authorized a privateer during the war, the Navy would not have had the authority to do so by itself.

* authorized the President to enforce these provisions via instructions to revenue officers and the Navy,

:: The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity ( including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel ) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

The Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and Coast Guard Commendation Medal are authorized gold and silver 5 / 16 inch stars to denote additional awards.

According to Luciano's authorized biography, during this time, Lansky helped arrange a deal with the U. S. Government via a high-ranking U. S. Navy official.

In 1799 the keel of USS Chesapeake, one of the first six frigates authorized by Congress, was laid, making her the first ship built in Gosport for the U. S. Navy.

The Navy authorized a special uniform change that allows hospital corpsmen assigned to 5th and 6th Marine Regiments to wear a shoulder strap on the left shoulder of their dress uniform so that the fourragère can be worn.

On March 3, 1857 the U. S. Congress authorized five screw sloops of war, one of them the ( the first ship so named by the U. S. Navy ).

It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and disposal.

The vessels are listed in the NVR when the classification and hull number ( s ) are assigned to ships and service craft authorized to be built by the President of the United States, or when the Chief of Naval Operations requests instatement or reinstatement of vessels as approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

The constitution specifically states that Congress is authorized " to provide and maintain a Navy " ( Article 1 Section 8 ).

* March 27, 1794: The federal government authorized the construction of the original six frigates of the United States Navy

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

Epaulettes were authorized for the United States Navy in the first official uniform regulations, Uniform of the Navy of the United States, 1797.

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.

After the passage of Public Law 101-189, Secretary of the Navy K. Lawrence Garrett III authorized the POW Medal to the crew of the USS Pueblo on December 22, 1989, and the medal was awarded to the crew on May 5, 1990.

This sentiment was underscored by the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which authorized Germany to build a fleet one third the size of the Royal Navy.

U. S. Army personnel do not wear the Navy Unit Commendation as a part of their personal awards and medals but, rather, above the right breast pocket with other unit awards authorized for wear.

* USS Nerka ( SS-380 ), a United States Navy submarine authorized during World War II ; her construction contract was canceled in July 1944

Production started with the Sikorsky S-51 flying for the first time in 1948 and as the Westland-Sikorksy Dragonfly entering service with the Royal Navy and RAF from 1950.

Production started with the Sikorsky S-51, which became the Dragonfly, flying for the first time in 1948, and entering service with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force in 1953.

The Menzies government accepted the committee's recommendation that Supply and Defence Production be amalgamated but dropped the key proposal that the Department of Defence absorb Army, Navy and Air.

Production has included 557 F-14A ( of which 18 later were converted into F-14Ds ), 38 F-14A + ( later redesignated F-14B ), and 37 F-14D aircraft for the U. S. Navy and 80 F-14As for the Imperial Iranian Air Force, of which 79 were delivered to Iran and one retained by the United States after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Production was also set up in the US, but these versions never matured even though the USAAC and US Navy both wanted to use it in place of their existing. 50 BMG weapons.

The administration of President Woodrow Wilson created an advisory Aircraft Production Board in May 1917, consisting of members of the Army, Navy, and industry, to study the Europeans ' experience in aircraft production and the standardization of aircraft parts.

Production of these ships began before the Spanish-American war and occurred far before the outbreak of World War I. Arthur Leopold Busch, a recent emigre from Great Britain, started the yard with former Navy Lt. Lewis Nixon in January 1895.

* Hon Norman Makin, MP: Minister for the Navy, Minister for Munitions, Minister for Aircraft Production

* Hon Norman Makin, MP: Minister for the Navy, Minister for Aircraft Production, Minister for Munitions ( to 15 August 1946 )

Production was divided between GMC producing trucks for the US Army, Studebaker Corporation producing 2. 5-ton trucks for Lend-Lease, and International Harvester producing for the US Navy & Marines.

* PC-40, Indonesian Navy, 40 meter long FRP / Aluminum patrol boat, locally made by in house Navy's workshop.

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

The United States Navy submarine USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ) crossed the North Pole on August 3, 1958.

The Navy took over the atoll for use as the Palmyra Island Naval Air Station on August 15, 1941.

In 2004 and in late August 2009 unsuccessful searches were made by the Royal Norwegian Navy for the wreckage of Amundsen's plane, using the unmanned submarine Hugin 1000.

The US Department of the Navy successfully tested printing telegraphy between an airplane and ground radio station in August 1922.

Authorization for the Silver Star was placed into law by an Act of Congress for the U. S. Navy on August 7, 1942 and an Act of Congress for the U. S. Army on December 15, 1942.

Following the building of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 the Grenzbrigade Küste der Grenzpolizei ( GBK ) ( Coastal Border Brigade of the Border Police ) was incorporated into the People's Navy.

On the morning of 27 August 1896, ships of the Royal Navy destroyed the Beit al Hukum Palace.

* August 25 – Harry Hammond Hess, American geologist and United States Navy officer in World War II ( b. 1906 )

* August 4 – Percival Drayton, United States Navy officer ( b. 1812 )

* August 7 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb, while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U. S. Navy heavy cruiser in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

* August 7 – WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal begins – The U. S. Navy and the U. S. Marine Corps begin the first American offensive of the war with an amphibious landing on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

* August 16 – The HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School open at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

* December 14 – The first German Imperial Navy submarine, U-1 ( launched on August 4 ), is commissioned.

* August 19 – MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1959 )

* August 25 – Percival Drayton, United States Navy officer ( d. 1865 )

* August 3 – Jacob Jones, U. S. Navy officer ( b. 1768 )

* August 30 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident: A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action.

Following graduation, Chaffee completed his Navy training on August 22, 1957 and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U. S. Navy.

On 6 August 2011, 17 Navy SEALs were killed when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by an RPG fired by Taliban militants.

The Battle of Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805 ) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition ( August – December 1805 ) of the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).