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.

* 1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* Destroyer Tender ( US Navy Hull Classification: AD ), support ships to aid the operation of a fleet of destroyers

The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

Link-4 datalink capability allowed US Navy Tomcats to share information with the E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft, and during Desert Shield in 1990, the Link-4A was introduced and allowed the Tomcats to have a fighter-to-fighter datalink capability, further enhancing overall situational awareness.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

* Users: US ( U. S. Navy ), Iran ( IRIAF )

However, before RAT-C reached initial operational status in 1960 aboard the large US Navy destroyer-leader Norfolk, its name was changed to the present ASROC.

Most other US Navy and allied navy destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and several different classes of cruisers only carried the one ASROC ' matchbox ' MK 112 launcher with eight ASROC missiles ( although later in service, some of those missiles could be replaced by the Harpoon anti-ship missile ).

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

To carry out the plans of power projection that Brazil wants to run, the expenditure will cost more than US $ 138 billion, within the Navy alone.

* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

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.

US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

* USS Columbus, various ships of the US Navy

The main outcome of the US Navy submarine missile project was the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile, based upon the V-1.

# Blockade: Use the US Navy to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba.

However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.

A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.

* Construction Electrician ( US Navy ), a Seabee occupational rating in the U. S. Navy

* 1854 – USS Constellation ( 1854 ), the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, is commissioned.

* January 30 – American Civil War: The first US ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.

Prados added that North Korea subsequently shared information gleaned from the warship to the Soviets, enabling them to build replicas and gain access to the US naval communications system, which continued until the system was completely revamped in the late-1980s.

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron ( Gulf of Tonkin Incident ), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 ( Tonkin Gulf Resolution ).

* Dock landing ship ( designated LSD for landing ship, dock by the US Navy ), a warship designed to support amphibious operations

In February 1899, due to the efforts of the Japanese ambassador, Akiyama received permission to serve a six-month tour on board a US Navy warship, the, where he was able to observe American tactics and fleet operations in the North Atlantic and Caribbean firsthand.

This was necessary as during the previous administration, not a single major warship was laid down and the US Navy was both aging and losing ground to the Japanese Navy, which would repudiate the Treaties in late 1934.

In the battle, a US warship force of five cruisers and four destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Carleton H. Wright attempted to surprise and destroy a Japanese warship force of eight destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka.

The US destroyer is the only US warship to fly the White Ensign along with the Stars and Stripes to honour its British namesake.

*, a US warship from 1813

The original lighthouse was destroyed by US warship fire during the 1898 bombardment of the city.

* USS Tecumseh ( 1863 ), a US Civil War Monitor warship type

* USS General Lyon ( 1860 ), US warship in US Civil War

* USS Lyon ( AP-71 ), a US warship of World War II

The initial USGS presence in the Kingdom was initiated in 1944 by King AbdulAziz al-Saud, and initially consisted of a lone hydrologist named Glen Brown, sent by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt following a meeting with AbdulAziz on a US warship in the Red Sea.

Following the Mexican-American War, Wood served in the receiving ship at Baltimore and later went to the steamer, the first US Navy iron hulled warship, operating on the Great Lakes, and homeported in Erie, Pennsylvania.

The event on the USS Somers may be the only mutiny on a warship in US Navy history.

* Littoral combat ship, a class of warship presently being considered by the US Navy