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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the sea branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. As of 31 December 2008, the U.S. Navy had about 331,682 personnel on active duty and 124,000 in the Navy Reserve. It operates 284 ships in active service and more...
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Battle of the Java Sea
The Second Battle of the Java Sea was the last naval action of the Netherlands East Indies campaign, of 1941–42. It occurred on 1 March 1942, two days after the first Battle of the Java Sea. It saw the end of the last Allied ships operating in the...
Iran-Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی, Jang-e-tahmīlī) and Holy Defense (دفاع مقدس, Defā'-e-moghaddas) in Iran, and Saddām's Qādisiyyah (قادسيّة صدّام, Qādisiyyat Ṣaddām) in Iraq, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and...
Battle of the Philippine Sea
The Battle of the Philippine Sea (aka "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot") was a decisive naval battle of World War II, and the largest aircraft carrier battle in history. It was fought between the navies of the United States and the Empire of Japan....
Operation Praying Mantis
Operation Praying Mantis was an April 18, 1988 attack by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
On April 14, the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts...
Operation Earnest Will
Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 - 26 September 1988) was the U.S. military protection of Kuwaiti owned oil tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest naval...
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC shelled the islands of Matsu and...
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also called the 1954-1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis or the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a short armed conflict that took place between the governments of the People's Republic of China (PRC)...
Operation Nimble Archer
Operation Nimble Archer was the October 19, 1987 attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by United States Navy forces. The attack was a response to Iran's October 16, 1987 attack on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil...
Joint Expedition Against Franklin
The Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a joint engagement between the United States Army & Navy and the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The engagement was intended to move Union forces into an area where confederate forces...
Naval battle of Shimonoseki
The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (Japanese:下関海戦, Shimonoseki Kaisen) is a little-known naval engagement fought on July 16, 1863, by a warship of the US Navy, the USS Wyoming, against the powerful feudal Japanese daimyo, Lord Mori Takachika of the...
2008 US-Iranian naval dispute
The 2007-2008 US-Iranian naval dispute refers to a series of naval stand-offs between Iranian speedboats and U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz in December 2007 and January 2008.
On January 6, 2008, five Iranian patrol boats crewed by the...
Operation Ten-Go
Operation Ten-Go (天號作戰 (Kyūjitai) or 天号作戦 (Shinjitai), Ten-gō Sakusen) was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten...
Second Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, (though some say it was a series of naval military campaigns and offensives) running from 1939 through to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was at its...
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and also one of the largest naval battles in...
Pacific War
The Pacific War was the part of World War II—and preceding conflicts—that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in the Far East. The war began as a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China on July 7, 1937, but by...
Battle of Lake Erie
The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great...
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by the People's Republic of China in the waters surrounding Taiwan including the...
Sinmiyangyo
The United States expedition to Korea or Shinmiyangyo in 1871 was the first American military action in Korea. It took place predominantly on and around the Korean island of Ganghwa. The reason for the presence of the American military expeditionary...
Little Belt Affair
The Little Belt Affair was a naval battle on the night of May 16, 1811. It involved the American frigate USS President and the British sixth-rate HMS Little Belt, a sloop-of-war, which had originally been the Danish ship Lillebælt (Little Belt,...
Action of June 3 2007
The Action of 3 June 2007 occurred after a US Navy dock landing ship attacked pirates hijacking a freighter.
The rise of the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia had stopped the spread of piracy in the region with its following of strict Islamic law...
October 28, 2007 incident off Somalia
The Action of 28 October 2007 was part of Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa, the military operation defined by the United States for combating terrorism in the Horn of Africa. The operation is one component of the overall mission of...
Action of 15 October 1917
The Action of 15 October 1917 was a naval engagement of the Great War. Between the warring powers of Imperial Germany and the United States, off the coast of Mind Head, Ireland.
Under a Lieutenant Commander H. Laning, USS Cassin was operating off...
Battle of the Pearl River Forts
The Battle of the Pearl River Forts or Battle of the Barrier Forts was an amphibious assault and short occupation conducted by the U.S. Navy against a series of forts along China's Pearl River at the beginning of the Second Opium War.
Sailing off...
Action of 17 November 1917
The Action of 17 November 1917 was a naval battle of the First World War. Between a German U-boat and two U.S. Navy destroyers.
Based out of Queenstown, Ireland, USS Fanning and her sister destroyer USS Nicholson patrolled the eastern waters of the...
First Battle of Galveston
The Battle of Galveston Harbor or the First Battle of Galveston was primarily a naval engagement fought on October 4, 1862 near the city of Galveston, Texas between forces from the Union Navy and the Confederate States of America.
The U.S. Navy...
Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba, fought between Spain and the United States on July 3, 1898, was the largest naval engagement of the Spanish-American War and resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Caribbean Squadron.
The Spanish realized that the...
Battle of Cárdenas
The Battle of Cárdenas was a small naval engagement of the Spanish-American War that resulted in an unusually costly American reverse.
In May 1898, a small squadron of the United States Navy was operating off the northern coast of Cuba, consisting...
Battle of Nipe Bay
The Battle of Nipe Bay of 21 July 1898 was an engagement of the Spanish-American War. Between the U.S. Navy and the Spanish Navy.
The action was fought in Nipe Bay, Cuba, by four U.S. Navy warships against the Spanish sloop Jorge Juan which was...
Second Battle of San Juan
The Second Battle of San Juan occurred on the 22nd of June 1898 when two Spanish vessels tried to break the American blockade off San Juan.
San Juan had been under blockade by American forces since April 1898. Most of the time the blockade consisted...
First Battle of Manzanillo
The First Battle of Manzanillo was a series of naval engagements during the Spanish American War on June 30, 1898 in and outside of the harbor of Manzanillo, Cuba. Three American gunboats were forced to retire after attacking a squadron of Spanish...
Third Battle of Manzanillo
The Third Battle of Manzanillo was fought in the harbor of Manzanillo, Cuba on July 18, 1898. A large squadron of the United States Navy consisting of gunboats and auxiliaries attacked and cleared the harbor of a comparable force of Spanish vessels...
Third Battle of San Juan
The Third Battle of San Juan (1898) began on June 28, 1898 when a Spanish blockade runner was intercepted by an American auxiliary cruiser during the Spanish-American War. A Spanish squadron rescued the blockade runner and engaged the American...
Action of 17 February 1864
The Action of 17 February 1864 was an important turning point in naval warfare. On this night the Confederate States Navy submarine, CSS Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship. CSS Hunley became the first submarine to sink an...
Panay incident
The Panay incident was a Japanese attack on the United States Navy gunboat Panay while she was anchored in the Yangtze River outside of Nanjing on December 12, 1937.
Japan and the United States were not at war at the time. The Japanese claimed that...
Sinking of HMS Peacock
The sinking of HMS Peacock was a naval action fought off the mouth of the Demerara River, Guiana on 24 February, 1813, between the sloop of war USS Hornet and the Cruizer class brig sloop Peacock. After an exchange of broadsides, the British vessel...
Capture of USS Argus
The capture of USS Argus occurred during the Anglo-American War of 1812. The brig USS Argus had been audaciously raiding British merchant shipping in British home waters for a month, when intercepted by the heavier British Cruizer class brig-sloop...
USS United States vs HMS Macedonian
The capture of HMS Macedonian was a naval action fought near Madeira on 25 October 1812 between the frigates USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, and HMS Macedonian, under the command of John Surnam Carden. The American vessel won the...
Capture of HMS Frolic
The capture of HMS Frolic was a naval action fought in the Atlantic on 18 October 1812, between the sloops-of-war USS Wasp, commanded by Jacob Jones, and HM Brig Frolic. The Americans captured the British vessel, but both vessels were damaged and...
Battle of Boston Harbor
The Capture of USS Chesapeake was fought on 1 June 1813, between HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake, as part of the War of 1812. Shannon won the battle, and Chesapeake was captured. During this many men were killed on both sides.
At Boston, Captain...
Capture of HMS Epervier
The capture of HMS Epervier was a naval action fought off the coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral on 28 April 1814, between the ship-rigged sloop of war USS Peacock, commanded by Master Commandant Lewis Warrington, and the Cruizer class brig-sloop...
Action of 18 March 2006
On March 18, 2006, two United States naval vessels were attacked by pirates. The U.S. ships were part of Combined Task Force 150 led by Royal Netherlands Navy Commodore Hank Ort.
By 2006 the lack of any government-controlled naval authority along...
U-Boat Attack on Orleans, Massachusetts
The Bombardment of Orleans, or the Battle of New Orleans, in July 1918 was a naval and air action during the First World War. An Imperial German U-boat opened fire on the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts and several merchant vessels nearby....
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
The USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere, was a single ship action between the two ships during the War of 1812. It took place shortly after war had broken out, and would prove to be an important victory for American morale.
When the United States...
Maersk Alabama hijacking
The Maersk Alabama was hijacked off the coast of Somalia on April 8, 2009.
Sinking of HMS Reindeer
The sinking of HMS Reindeer was one of the hardest-fought naval actions in the Anglo-American War of 1812. It took place on 28 June, 1814. The ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp forced the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Reindeer to surrender after far...
