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
13 DECEMBER 1901 SAMPSON-SCHLEY CONTROVERSY The naval battle of Santiago on 3 July 1898 had been a pivotal victory in the Spanish-American war, despite some initial miscues. The overall commander, Acting RADM William T. Sampson, had gone ashore hours before the Read More