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