1988 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
1987 U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1967 Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49
1965 Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60
1964 North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea
1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1945 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
1944 Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1943 U.S. invasion fleet of 96 ships sails to Sicily
1942 French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1942 U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
1941 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan
1941 Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed
1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton
1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1940 Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships
1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1915 Germany sinks U.S. ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1905 Clara Bow, Brooklyn, actress, Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships
1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
1898 Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1882 Henry J Kaiser, builder, Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam
1864 Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1863 Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1861 English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around San Francisco Bay
1824 Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor, Plimsoll line for ships
1810 Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
1810 Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships
1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay
1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1694 Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1673 Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston
1642 Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
1634 Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1623 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1600 Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1593 Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1585 Spain confisquates English ships
1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1534 Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon
1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1493 Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America
1492 Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas)
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
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