TODAY IN NAVAL HISTORY 30-31 AUGUST 1776 EVACUATION OF LONG ISLAND Boston, the hotbed of colonial rebellion, became the British Army’s North American headquarters in the mid-1770s. But after GEN George Washington emplaced cannon in the Dorchester Heights overlooking that Read More
27-28 AUGUST 1861 HATTERAS INLET Union MGEN Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Fort Monroe but not renowned for his tactical genius, nevertheless cleared Rebels from the Newport News region of Virginia during the spring of 1861. This effort was defeated at the Read More
24 AUGUST 1944 HAKE, HARDER, AND HADDO CDR Samuel D. Dealey commanded a three-sub “wolfpack” off the Philippines comprised of his boat, HARDER (SS-257), along with HADDO (SS-255) and HAKE (SS-256). US planners were anticipating the invasion of those islands in Read More
18 AUGUST 1944 WOLFPACKS IN THE PACIFIC? Hitler’s U-boat wolfpacks in the Atlantic innovated the deployment of submarines in that theater. According to Winston Churchill, those U-boats came close to crippling England’s economy. American submariners in the Pacific took note and Read More
12 AUGUST 1814 BRITISH NIGHT RAID As Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry built his Lake Erie squadron at Presque Isle during the Summer of 1814, we and the British had but a few brigs and schooners for patrols. Even so, American Read More
5 AUGUST 1864 METACOMET vs. SELMA As RADM David Farragut forced Mobile Bay, the channel coursed only several hundred yards from the heavy Confederate guns of Fort Morgan. To protect his wooden warships, Farragut ordered smaller gunboats lashed to the starboard Read More