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2013 Event - The ambassador from the People's Republic of China is summoned by Japan's government after a flotilla of Chinese ships sail near the disputed Senkaku Islands

2012 Event - The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement'

2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil

2011 Event - Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan

2011 Event - For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal

2010 Event - After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters

1988 Event - Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor

1987 Event - U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf

1985 Event - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US

1977 Event - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II

1967 Death - Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49

1965 Death - Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60

1964 Event - North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin

1957 Event - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships

1953 Event - Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea

1951 Event - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica

1947 Event - British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel

1946 Event - 2 British ships sink near Albania

1945 Event - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure

1945 Event - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra

1945 Event - Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1944 Event - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink

1944 Event - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322

1944 Event - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

1943 Event - U.S. invasion fleet of 96 ships sails to Sicily

1942 Event - French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them

1942 Event - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk

1942 Event - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland

1942 Event - U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)

1942 Event - U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1941 Event - 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan

1941 Event - Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed

1941 Event - U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton

1940 Event - German planes attack British ships in the Canal

1940 Event - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships

1929 Event - Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana

1917 Event - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

1917 Event - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

1916 Event - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic

1915 Event - Germany sinks U.S. ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin

1898 Event - Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan

1898 Event - Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda

1893 Event - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed

1886 Birthday - William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships

1882 Birthday - Henry J Kaiser, builder, Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam

1864 Event - Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke

1863 Event - Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC

1863 Event - Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia

1861 Event - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships

1850 Event - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around San Francisco Bay

1824 Birthday - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor, Plimsoll line for ships

1810 Birthday - Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships

1810 Death - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies

1808 Event - Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships

1792 Event - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC

1787 Event - Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay

1781 Event - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War

1776 Event - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die

1775 Event - Continental Navy organized with 7 ships

1773 Event - Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia

1772 Event - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica

1694 Event - Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die

1675 Event - Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships

1673 Event - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City

1664 Event - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston

1642 Event - Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia

1634 Event - Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao

1630 Event - Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil

1627 Event - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador

1627 Event - Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil

1623 Event - 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru

1600 Event - Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines

1597 Event - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East

1595 Event - Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope

1593 Event - Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed

1585 Event - Spain confisquates English ships

1559 Event - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die

1534 Event - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea

1501 Event - Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon

1500 Event - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India

1498 Event - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America

1493 Event - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America

1492 Event - Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas)

1453 Event - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople













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