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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 U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese 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 Admiral 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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