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21 gru 2022 · On March 8, 1862, Virginia attacked elements of the Union’s North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in Hampton Roads, Virginia, scoring one of the most dramatic naval victories of the American Civil War. In one afternoon, the Confederate ironclad ram sank two Union capital ships and damaged two others, sank two transports and captured another, and ...
Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better.
The British continued to ravage Virginia well into the spring. On 27 April, seven Virginia vessels (manned at barely 10 percent of their normal complement) were destroyed by Arnold’s forces at Osbourne’s Wharf on the James River. The Liberty was now one of the last craft in the Virginia Navy.
7 paź 2022 · The term naval stores originally applied to the organic compounds used in building and supporting wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin, pitch, and tar. Ships made of wood required a flexible material, insoluble in water, to seal the spaces between planks.
4 sty 2021 · By October 1800, aggressiveness of the cruisers of the United States Navy, as well as those of the Royal Navy, combined with a more conciliatory diplomatic stance by the French toward...
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia is the oldest naval shipyard in the United States. It was established November 1, 1767 under the British flag, thirty-one years before the...
After diplomatic efforts failed, the Navy was instrumental in the opening phases of the 1991 Gulf War with Iraq; the ships of the navy launched hundreds of Tomahawk II cruise missiles and naval aircraft flew sorties from six carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.
