2012 Event Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship 2011 Event In Sweden, divers find the wreckage of the Svardet, a warship sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Oland 2011 Event A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564 1993 Event U.S. warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti 1987 Event Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot 1980 Event Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft 1949 Event British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1943 Event German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea 1943 Event 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 1925 Event British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers 1922 Event Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship 1918 Event 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) 1917 Event British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1911 Event Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica 1894 Event U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island 1864 Event U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 Event Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg 1863 Event Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 1862 Event Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut 1862 Event U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched 1857 Event Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die 1826 Event USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1814 Event "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched 1813 Event British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus 1812 Event U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1800 Event English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die 1792 Event English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 1745 Event Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle 1745 Event Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle
