17 MAY 2025 BROOKLYN BRIDGE COLLISION ARM CUAUHTÉMOC (BE-01) is the Mexican Navy’s three-masted sail training ship. She remembers the last Aztec emperor during the 1520-21 Spanish conquest and associated smallpox epidemic. Launched in September 1982, she is one of four sisters, Read More
12-13 MAY 1862 ESCAPE OF PLANTER Robert Smalls was a 23-year-old slave who was contracted by his owner to Charleston, SC, tradesmen in exchange for the pay he earned. The Spring of 1862 found Smalls in the employ of C.J. Relyea, Read More
6 MAY 1942 FALL OF CORREGIDOR The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Landing in the Lingayen Gulf, they swept southward across the island of Luzon toward Manila, Subic Bay, and the Bataan Read More
1 FEBRUARY-2 MAY 1997 LAST CRUISE OF LPH-11 On the sunny Friday morning of 2 May 1997 the amphibious assault ship NEW ORLEANS (LPH-11) nudged toward Pier 6 at Naval Station San Diego. A seasoned 28-year veteran, she was returning from Read More