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1993 U.S. warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot 1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers 1922 Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship 1918 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1911 Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica 1894 U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island 1864 U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg 1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 1862 Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut 1862 U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched 1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die 1826 USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1814 "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched 1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus 1812 U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die 1792 English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle |
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