2013 Event The USS Gerald R. Ford is christened by the U.S. Navy; the aircraft carrier cost $15.5 billion and technically the most advanced ship ever built 2012 Event In ceremonies held at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is officially inactivated after a 51-year U.S. Naval career 2004 Event Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors 2000 Event USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors 1992 Event Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned 1989 Event Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors 1988 Event USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned 1987 Event USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die 1984 Event Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1981 Event Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1968 Event Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1967 Event Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 1967 Event Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen 1962 Event Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" 1961 Event Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona 1960 Event Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) 1960 Event USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched 1960 Event USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches 1960 Event USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water 1960 Event U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip 1958 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole 1958 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) 1958 Event Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 Event USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap 1958 Event U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1957 Event U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut 1955 Event Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched 1955 Event Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched 1955 Event 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn 1954 Event USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va 1954 Event 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned 1945 Event V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 1945 Event After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 Event USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1945 Event Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan 1945 Event 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1943 Event 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 1943 Event USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 1942 Event Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes 1942 Event USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island 1941 Event USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship 1941 Event 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) 1941 Event USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war 1941 Event USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF 1935 Event Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean 1933 Event 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 1930 Event USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine 1930 Event 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched 1922 Event USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier 1911 Event 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) 1898 Event 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship 1898 Event USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die 1864 Event Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett 1864 Event CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France 1864 Event U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 Event Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs. CSS Alabama 1863 Event Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras 1862 Event Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) 1862 Event Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition 1862 Event CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R 1862 Event Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor 1862 Event Naval Engagement at Tennessee River - USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle 1862 Event BBT Ft. Henry, Tennessee by USS Lexington 1861 Event Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert 1861 Event Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade 1861 Event CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade 1844 Event 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 1844 Death Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1844 Death Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1826 Event USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1807 Event British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 1799 Event USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
