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USS and Hatteras
* December 30 – The USS Monitor sinks in storm in the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.
During this cruise, Alabama captured 65 U. S. merchantmen and quickly destroyed the Union warship USS Hatteras off Galveston, TX.
* USS Hatteras ( AVP-42 ), a Barnegat-class small seaplane tender that was canceled in 1943, prior to construction
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Hatteras for Hatteras Island or Hatteras Inlet on the coast of North Carolina, and a third ship that was cancelled prior to construction was also to have borne the name:
* USS Hatteras ( AVP-42 ), a Barnegat-class small seaplane tender that was canceled in 1943, prior to construction
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In 1973, the wreck of the ironclad USS Monitor, made famous in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862 during the American Civil War was located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean about 16 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

USS and raided
The ships in Tulagi harbor were raided by planes from USS Yorktown the following day in a prelude to the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Manchac was raided in February 1778 by American forces under the command of James Willing — see related articles Continental Marines and USS Morris ( 1778 ).

USS and Key
Early sea assignments included USS Puffer and USS Francis Scott Key ( BLUE ).
U. S. Navy support also included a Landing Ship Tank ( LST ), the destroyer USS Saufley, and smaller vessels such as landing craft and motor whaleboats from nearby Naval Station Key West.
# REDIRECT USS Francis Scott Key ( SSBN-657 )
Filming of the submarine sequence took place from the deck of USS Kleinsmith ( APD-134 ) while off Key West on 11 January 1951, and much of the boat and high-speed transport scenes were shot from Kleinsmith while off St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, between 15 January and 6 February 1951.
During a four-day call at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and later during a two-week stopover at Key West, Florida Lt. Col. Huntington ensured that all enlisted Marines aboard the USS Panther underwent target practice on the beaches with the Lee rifle, as well as marksmanship training and small-unit battle drills.

USS and January
On 18 January 1994 the SS American Star ( former America, USS West Point, Australis ) was beached in Playa de Garcey during a storm.
In the second week of January 2002, he was flown to the USS Bataan in the northern Arabian Sea, the ship which was being used to hold eight other notable prisoners, including John Walker Lindh.
On December 31, 2001, he was transferred to the USS Bataan, where he was held until January 22, 2002, when he was flown off the Bataan to begin the journey back to the United States to face criminal charges.
While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.
The year of 1968 was mainly dominated by the capture of the USS Pueblo, a reconnaissance ship captured in the Sea of Japan that January.
* January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise ( CVN-65 ) | USS Enterprise
* January 23 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
January 23 USS Pueblo ( AGER-2 ) | USS Pueblo
January 30: USS Monitor | USS Monitor.
* January 30 – American Civil War: The first US ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.
A production contract was signed in January 1958 and the only submarine launch was carried out from the USS Grayback in September 1958.
Jackson DeForest Kelley ( January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999 ) was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard " Bones " McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.
* USS Somerset ( AK-212 ), an Alamosa-class cargo ship launched in January 1945
As a corporal in January 1918, he shipped out from Philadelphia aboard the USS Von Steuben bound for Brest, France.
There the President Polk embarked the ground echelons of two squadrons of the 7th Bomb Group ( based at Jogjakarta ) and continued to Java, escorted by the heavy cruiser USS Houston, arriving in Surabaya on 28 January.
A second kaiten attack in January 1945 was foiled when the I-48 was sunk by the destroyer escort USS Conklin.
On January 22, 1944, from the deck of the cruiser USS Biscayne, Lucas oversaw Operation Shingle, the amphibious landing at Anzio.
On January 25, 2002, an SM-3 launched from the USS Lake Erie collided with a test target northeast of the island of Kauai.
**** USS Bon Homme Richard 10 May 1951 – 17 December 1951 ; 20 May 1952 – 8 January 1953
**** USS Princeton 9 November 1950 – 29 May 1951 ; 31 May 1951 – 29 August 1951 ; 21 March 1952 – 3 November 1952 ; 24 January 1953 – End of war

USS and 1862
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.
* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.
* USS New England ( 1861 ), a whaler purchased in 1861 and sunk as an obstruction as part of the " Stone Fleet " in 1862
** USS Sacramento ( 1862 ) was a sloop, launched in 1862 and wrecked in 1867.
* USS Somerset ( 1862 ), a side wheel ferryboat
In late December 1862 the Union steamship USS Bloomer was in port on the Choctawhatchee River in Geneva.
On 17 June 1862, at the Battle of Saint Charles, 8 Federal vessels including the ironclad gunboat USS Mound City attempted to pass Confederate shore guns here, on the banks of the White River.
USS Mercedita helped capture Apalachicola in 1862.
The USS Weehawken, launched on November 5, 1862, was a Passaic-class monitor, or ironclad ship, which sailed for the Union Navy during the American Civil War, encountered battles at the Charleston, South Carolina coast, and sank in a moderate gale on December 6, 1863.
During the Civil War Holden Beach and Lockwood's Folley Inlet became the resting place of several shipwrecks: the Confederate blockade runners CSS Elizabeth and CSS Bendigo and the Union blockade ship USS Iron Age ( 1862 ).
Then, Marines off the Navy vessel USS Afton surged ashore on San Jose Island and leveled the small town of Aransas, burning most of the houses, structures, warehouses, piers, docks and wharf sometime in February 1862.
* USS Darlington ( 1862 ), a steamship operating during the American Civil War
In early 1862, the Confederate ironclad warship CSS Virginia was rebuilt using the burned-out hulk of USS Merrimack.
* The first USS Tennessee ( 1862 ) was a paddlewheel steamer captured from the Confederacy at New Orleans on April 2, 1862.
The first battle between ironclads: CSS Virginia | CSS Virginia / Merrimac ( left ) vs. USS Monitor | USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads
* USS Port Royal ( 1862 ) was a sidewheel steamer gunboat commissioned in 1862, active in the Civil War, and decommissioned 1866
The first battle between ironclads: CSS Virginia | CSS Virginia / Merrimac ( left ) vs. USS Monitor | USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads
* USS Adirondack ( 1862 ), was a gunboat during the American Civil War that sank off the Bahamas

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