2015 Event A SpaceX cargo rocket explodes shortly after launch; the unmanned vessel was carrying over two tons of food, provisions, supplies and equipment for the International Space Station 2015 Event Italian authorities arrested the captain and a crewman of a vessel that shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, drowning at least 800 people; the passengers were migrating from North Africa to Europe 2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2014 Event NASA awakens its New Horizons craft from hibernation for the last time; the vessel was launched 9 years ago to travel over 3 billion miles to Pluto and will be within range to begin data collection on the planet in January 2015 2014 Event NASA successfully tests its unmanned Orion spaceship for potential human flight over 3,500 miles from Earth; several years and more tests will be needed before the vessel is ready for human travel, potentially paving the way for manned trips to Mars 2014 Event Swedish officials release a photo of U-boat tracks along the sea floor as proof that a foreign submarine breached the nation�s waters; the search began after the military detected Russian-language distress calls and spotted an unidentified vessel 2014 Event The European Space Agency makes history by landing a probe named Philae on the surface of a comet; scientists report that the probe anchors did not fire and that the vessel appears to have made two landings 1954 Event Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy 1952 Event Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 1950 Event 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) 1947 Event 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey) 1941 Event 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched 1940 Event British merchant vessel fleet is armed 1932 Event 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY 1929 Event USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor 1926 Event Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole 1914 Event Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal 1894 Event 1st U.S. steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me 1859 Event Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die 1856 Event Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1819 Event 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1812 Event U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian 1775 Event 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
