Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August 1958.
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
USS Constitution earned the nickname ‘Old Ironsides’ after defeating HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812.
On the 7th August 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the United States Congress.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
The German gunboat SMS Panther was sent to the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Second Moroccan Crisis.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
23-year old Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty.
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