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Warship
1993 US 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, SS 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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