USS Mercedita, from the U. S. Naval Historical Center.

In 1846, with the arrival of USS Congress, Frémont was appointed lieutenant colonel of the California Battalion, also called U. S. Mounted Rifles, which he had helped form with his survey crew and volunteers from the Bear Flag Republic, now totaling 428 men.

Batfish and War Memorial Park, whose major attraction is the submarine USS Batfish ; the Three Rivers Museum, dedicated to the history of the Three Rivers area and the railroads that helped create it ; the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, honoring Oklahoma musicians since 1997 ; the Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, an 1898 farm house preserved with the furnishings of the Indian Territory Judge John R. Thomas and his daughter and son-in-law Grant and Carolyn Foreman, Oklahoma historians and authors ; and Ataloa Lodge, on the campus of Bacone College.

Long helped him find a position aboard the USS Columbia ( C-12 ), Which would turn out to be Thomas's first and last assignment.

In 1980, the USS Nimitz takes on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky ( Martin Sheen ), at the orders of his reclusive and mysterious employer, Mr. Tideman ( who helped design much of the ship ), just before it departs Pearl Harbor for a training mission in the Pacific Ocean.

During this battle, the Breen helped destroy a fleet of Alliance ships, including the USS Defiant.

American prosecutors at the Guantanamo military commissions allege that he helped in the preparation of the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings and the USS Cole bombing and acted as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, gaining himself the reputation of an " errand boy ".

He took command of the battleship USS New Jersey on 27 August 1969 and helped decommission her on 17 December 1969 with these words: " Rest well, yet sleep lightly ; and hear the call, if again sounded, to provide firepower for freedom.

Atwah also helped tested the explosive used in the USS Cole bombing in 2000.

Edward Crissey, in command of the steamboat USS Bloomer, which he had been instrumental in stealing from her berth near Geneva, Alabama, helped destroy numerous salt works, doing great damage to the Confederate War effort.

* Cornelius Scranton Bushnell, entrepreneur, founder of the Union Pacific Railroad ; helped build the USS Monitor for the Union Navy

He is remembered for his actions as the captain of the destroyer escort USS Doyle in World War II which helped to save 316 lives during the USS Indianapolis tragedy.

Finally, William Riker of the USS Enterprise denies any claim to have known Quinn at all, until Q shows Riker that Quinn had helped his family in the past: As a soldier in the American Civil War, Quinn carried a wounded Union officer, Colonel Thaddeus Riker, back from the front lines to safety-ultimately ensuring Will Riker's existence in the future.

At NAVSEA, Reimann helped oversee the 1988 – 89 repair of the USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) by Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine, after it was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine during Operation Earnest Will.

Mavroules served as chairman of the House subcommittee on investigations, helped expose major cost overruns on Navy aircraft and shed light on the deadly 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa.

The most significant incident from this war which occurred in the Maritimes was the British capture and detention of the American frigate USS Chesapeake in Halifax.

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.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

Maloney returned to Steilacoom and, along with other military officers, took another steamship, the USS Active from Steilacoom to Seattle to get a howitzer ( which they failed to acquire ), then back to Fox Island, hoping to capture Chief Leschi.

Admiral Matthew Dougherty requests the help of the starship USS Enterprise-E to help capture or disable Data.

As expressed by the House Committee on Armed Services in report 101-121, the original intent of the POW Medal statute was to allow the award in incidents such as the USS Pueblo capture, but that due to the wording of the statute the detainees simply did not “ meet the literal requirements of the law .” Admiral J. M.

After transferring to the USS Defiant, which had drifted into the Mirror Universe, he leads a team to attempt capture of a Gorn stowaway on the ship.

When the USS James Adger arrived in Southampton and Commander Marchand learned from The Times that his targets had arrived in Cuba, he reacted to the news by boasting that he would capture the two envoys within sight of the British shore if necessary, even if they were on a British ship.

The majority report of the court found that Commodore Schley failed to proceed to Santiago with due despatch, that the squadron should not have been delayed by the Eagle, that he should not have turned westward, that he should have obeyed the Navy Department's order of May 25, 1898, that he did not do his utmost to capture the Colon, that the turn of the Brooklyn caused the Texas to stop, for carelessness in endangering Texas, for blanketing the fire of other American vessels ( the Texas's fire was blanketed when stopped as the USS Olympia dashed past her ), that he did injustice to lieutenant-commander Hodgson ( Navigation officer of the Brooklyn at the time of the incident ), that his conduct in the Santiago campaign was characterized by vacillation, dilatoriness, and " lack of enterprise ," and that his coal reports were inaccurate and misleading.

USS Chesapeake ( 1799 ) | USS Chesapeake flying Flag of the United States | Stars and Stripes below White Ensign after her capture by HMS Shannon ( 1806 ) | HMS Shannon

He served on a number of vessels, including the monitor USS Catskill, where he participated in the blockade of Charleston Harbor and the capture of the blockade runner " Deer ".

Born at Boston, Massachusetts, Porter served in the Quasi-War with France first as midshipman on board, participating in the capture of L ’ Insurgente February 9, 1799 ; secondly, as 1st lieutenant of and later in command of USS Amphitheatre.

* McCalla Hill — Named for Rear Admiral B. H. McCalla, who as Captain of USS Marblehead, commanded U. S. forces in the capture of Guantánamo Bay in 1898.

Barclay took part in the capture of the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida in Bahia, Brazil on board the USS Kearsarge 1865-1866.

* 17 November-Action of 17 November 1917: Queenstown-based United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 which is scuttled off Kinsale.

He evaded capture and was rescued on June 8 by U. S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion 8th Marines within the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based on the USS Kearsarge.

Elements of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, operating from the USS Peleliu, used small boats and landed units to capture a number of persons, boats and trucks smuggling fuel out of Iraq.

At the start of June 1847, the Potomac departed, under the command of Commodore Perry on board the USS Spitfire, to capture the region of Alvarado.

On June 16, 1847, Parker was transferred to the USS Raritan in order to participate in the expedition and volunteered to serve in a formation of naval pioneers being sent ashore to capture Tabasco.

In 1857, Maffitt was placed in command of the brig USS Dolphin and ordered to capture pirates and slavers in the West Indies.

At sea, Lt. Sam Carsten's ship, USS Remembrance, is sunk by a Japanese carrier attack and the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ) are threatened with capture.

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.

The USS Hatteras raided Cedar Key in January 1862, burning several ships loaded with cotton and turpentine and destroying the railroad's rolling stock and buildings on Way Key.

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