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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

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