2015 Event Sea incidents involving migrants continue at a steady pace in the Mediterranean, as Italian ships rescue 1,500 people from 5 separate vessels in less than 24 hours 2014 Event A shipwreck off of Haiti may be that of the Santa Maria, one of the three ships led by Christopher Columbus; the wreck was discovered about 10 years ago, but has only now been tentatively identified in light of Columbus' writings and other evidence 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
