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Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

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David Farragut

David Farragut (1801-70) was an accomplished U.S. naval officer, who received great acclaim for his service to the Union during the American Civil War (1861-65). Farragut commanded the Union blockade of Southern ports, helped capture the the Confederate city of New Orleans and provided support for General Ulysses S. Grant’s siege of Vicksburg. Farragut is […]

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Circa 1840. Oil on canvas. Private collection. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Battle of Trafalgar

Part of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15), the Battle of Trafalgar featured a clash of Franco-Spanish and British fleets off the western mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar. Commanded by Vice Admiral Nelson, the onslaught broke the allied line and exposed its center and rear to overwhelming force, resulting in the capture of 19 of the […]

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Destruction of CSS Virginia during the Civil War's Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862

Battle of Hampton Roads

U.S.S. Merrimack Rechristened the C.S.S. Virginia The C.S.S. Virginia was originally the U.S.S. Merrimack, a 40-gun frigate launched in 1855. The Merrimack served in the Caribbean and was the flagship of the Pacific fleet in the late 1850s. In early 1860, the ship was decommissioned for extensive repairs at the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, […]

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The Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th 1864. This print shows the old type broadside ship, the improvised paddle gunboat, the ironclad ram Tennessee, which the Confederates built in face of so many difficulties and the primitive monitors which defeated her. . (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Battle of Mobile Bay

Battle of Mobile Bay: Background Mobile became the major Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico after the fall of New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 1862. With blockade runners carrying critical supplies from Havana, Cuba, into Mobile, Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) made the capture of the port a top priority after assuming command […]

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USS Indianapolis: Survivor Accounts From the Worst Sea Disaster in US Naval History

‘There were a lot of sharks,’ says one of the survivors. ‘So many.’

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Officers and crew of the United States Navy ship U.S.S. Pueblo being led away after being captured by North Korean forces in international waters in 1968. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

North Korea Once Captured and Detained the Crew of a U.S. Spy Ship for 11 Months

The captured crew were beaten and nearly starved in the 1968 incident that almost led to another war—and the ship remains in North Korea.

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The sinking of Lusitania by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, 1915. The tragedy killed 128 US citizens, helping bring the US into World War I. (Credit: Three Lions/Getty Images)

How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I

A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, on May 7, 1915. The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I.

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A German drawing of a submerged U boat in British waters during World War One. (Credit: Classic Image/Alamy)

The Daring Deep Sea Divers Who Helped Crack WWI German Codes

How a secret team of British divers hunted codes from German shipwrecks.

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2002

Divers recover U.S.S. Monitor turret

21st Century
1845

US Naval Academy opens

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1968

USS Pueblo captured

Cold War
1994

Passenger ferry, Estonia, sinks, killing 852

1990s
1905

The Battle of Tsushima Strait

European History
1914

U-boat devastates British squadron

World War I
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