27 APRIL 1864 CSS NEUSE Union forces gained control of North Carolina’s shoreline south of the Virginia border during the first year of the Civil War. By late 1862, Union troops were garrisoned at New Bern on the Neuse River, Washington Read More
23-24 APRIL 1865 CSS WEBB’S RUN FOR THE SEA The 206-foot sidewheel steamboat William H. Webb started her career as a coastal steamer in New York in 1856. She fell into Confederate hands in 1861 and was converted to a ram Read More
17 APRIL 1943 USCGC SPENCER vs. U-175 Ocean Escort Unit A-3, a multi-national collection of the US Coast Guard cutters SPENCER (WPG-36) and DUANE (WPG-33) along with the British corvette HMS DIANTHUS, the Canadian corvettes CHILLIWACK, ROSTHERN, TRILLIUM and DAUPHIN, and Read More
13 APRIL 1904 MISSOURI TURRET FIRE The first years of the 20th century were heady times. The Wright brothers had achieved the first heavier-than-air flight only months before this date. Theodore Roosevelt was President, and from a naval perspective, our nation Read More
6-7 APRIL 1945 YAMATO’S DESPERATION SORTIE A second offshore phase of operation “Ten-Go” involved the Imperial Navy. Its warships were to sally forth and blast what remained of the Allied invasion fleet after the April 6th kikusui raid. But by this Read More
6-7 APRIL 1945 “FLOATING CHRYSANTHEMUMS” The Japanese plan for defense of Okinawa was known by the language characters “Ten-Go.” While defenders on land waged a battle of attrition, Japanese air and naval forces would engage the American invasion fleet. But the Read More