* USS Weehawken

The Union noticed Webb's bold move and dispatched Captain John Rodgers in the USS Weehawken, escorted by the USS Nahant.

The USS Weehawken held fire until it was at 300 yards and then pounded the immobile ship, basically turning into target practice for the Union ship.

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 Enterprise ( NCC-1701-B ), launched at the start of Star Trek: Generations

* USS Gary ( DE-61 ), a destroyer escort launched in 1943

** USS Sacramento ( 1862 ) was a sloop, launched in 1862 and wrecked in 1867.

Also the same year the Union launched the USS Spuyten Duyvil, a purpose-built craft with a number of technical innovations including variable ballast for attack operations and an extensible and reloadable torpedo placement spar.

*, a steam frigate launched in 1865 as the USS Neshaminy.

* USS William C. Cole ( DE-641 ) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, which was launched in 1943 and stricken in 1972.

* August 22 – WWII: Tsushima Maru, a Japanese unmarked passenger / cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1, 484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren.

* August 4 – WWII: The USS Intrepid ( CV-11 ) is launched.

* June 9 – The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

** Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the USS Vincennes.

* October 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.

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

* March 8 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia ( formerly USS Merrimack ) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia ; the Battle of Hampton Roads starts the same day.

* March 1 – The U. S. naval vessel USS Columbus is launched in Washington, DC.

* USS Medusa ( AR-1 ), a fleet repair ship launched in 1923

The island was shelled on several occasions, including by the battleships USS Massachusetts and USS Iowa, as well as air attacks launched from USS Cowpens.

After being launched on 17 May 1897, it was eventually purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Holland.

In 2344, the Romulan Star Empire launched an assault on the Klingon outpost at Narendra III, but unexpectedly the USS Enterprise-C, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, came to the Klingons ' defense.

USS Voyager was launched with 141 crew on board.

* 1955 – The first nuclear powered vessel, the USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched

* 1954: USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched.

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.

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 agreement was signed at a ceremony on board the USS Iwo Jima, docked in New York for the Navy's annual Fleet Week.

* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

A B-1 bomber was lost on 12 December 2001 to mechanical failures just after take off from the island, but the crew survived and was rescued by the USS Russell ( DDG-59 ).

File: US Navy 090612-N-3659B-122 Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit ( EODMU ) 11, Platoon 0-2, take their positions on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN 76 ) during a fast-roping exercise. jpg | US Navy EOD M45 gas mask system.

Under this system, for example, the battleship Indiana was USS Indiana ( Battleship No. 1 ), the cruiser Olympia was USS Olympia ( Cruiser No. 6 ), and so on.

While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

* 1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz ( CVN-68 ), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.

He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

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

USS USS Lexington ( CV-2 ) | Lexington under air attack on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Captain Thomas Truxtun's insistence on the highest standards of crew training paid dividends as the frigate USS Constellation captured L ' Insurgente and severely damaged La Vengeance.

French privateers usually resisted, as did La Croyable, which was captured on July 7, 1798, by the USS Delaware outside of Egg Harbor, New Jersey.

Silas Talbot engineered an expedition to Puerto Plata harbor in the Colony of Santo Domingo, a possession of France's ally Spain, on May 11, 1800 ; sailors and marines from the USS Constitution under Lieutenant Isaac Hull captured the French privateer Sandwich in the harbor and spiked the guns in the Spanish fort.

Renamed Magicienne by the French, the schooner again came into American hands on June 28, when a broadside from USS Merrimack forced her to haul down her colors.

Unlike the other Star Trek TV shows, it took place on a space station instead of a starship, so as not to have two series with starships at the same time ( the starship USS Defiant was introduced in season 3, but the station remained the primary setting for the show ).

The character of the Doctor began his service on the USS Voyager as the standard Emergency Medical Hologram built into almost every newer Starfleet ship's sickbay.

In this role, he would coordinate all Starfleet activity in the Bajoran sector and act as an executive officer on the USS Defiant.