Blockade, Seminole Wars

The Blockade of Florida

                                               21 JANUARY 1836                                     THE BLOCKADE OF FLORIDA Seminole Indians, angered over President Andrew Jackson’s plan for their relocation to the Oklahoma Indian Territory, rose up on 28 December 1835 and attacked a column of Army troops under MAJ Francis L. Dade Read More

Civil War, Monitors

USS PATAPSCO

                                               15 JANUARY 1865                                                  USS PATAPSCO The Rebel-controlled guns of Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and Johnson straddling the entrance to Charleston harbor anchored the Confederate defenses in the late Civil War.  The mouth of the harbor and the entrance channel were obstructed with Read More

Age of Sail, Barbary Wars, War of 1812

USS LYNX

                                               11 JANUARY 1820                                                       USS LYNX In modern times, the unexplained disappearance of a vessel at sea would raise much interest, concern, news coverage, and even sensationalist speculation.  Witness the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in 2014.  In the 19th century, Read More

Administration, Cruisers, WWII Pacific

Theodore Edson Chandler

                                                7 JANUARY 1945                                    THEODORE EDSON CHANDLER Theodore Edson Chandler was born at Annapolis on 26 December 1894 into a distinguished Navy family.  His father, the future RADM Lloyd H. Chandler, attended the Naval Academy at the time.  Young Chandler followed in Read More

Sailors

Crossing the Line

                                                3 JANUARY 1908                                             CROSSING THE LINE On 29 December 1907, after their first coaling stop in Trinidad, the Atlantic Battleship Fleet, nicknamed “the Great White Fleet,” weighed anchor and headed south on their epic world cruise.  Five days later off Macapa, Read More