BMR Chapter 5 - Naval History Flashcards
When is the Navy Birthday?
13 October 1775
What were the the three major classes of ships in the late 1700s?
Ships of the line
Frigates
Sloops of War
What vessel was a small, fast, flexible slush deck ship that carried smooth bore cannon, and was typical of “fleet” Privateers?
Schooners
What was the first Untied States Submarine?
the Trutle
Who built the first United States Submarine?
David Bushnell
What is the first U.S. Navel Vessel on which the “Flag of Freedom” was hoisted?
USS Alfred - hoisted by John Paul Jones
Who was the first Commander in Chief?
Esek Hopkins
What was the first amphibious operation carried out by the American Navy and Marines?
Hopkins raid on New Providence Island
When was the Navy’s first official recognition by a foreign nation?
14 February 1778 - John Paul Jones sailed into Quiberon Bay, France in the USS Ranger
What year was the navy disbanded?
1785
When did navy get re-established?
1794
What year did John Adams establish the Navy Department?
1798
What were the two wars between the Revolutionary War?
Quasi war with France
Barbary States War
Who led the raid to burn the captured USS Philadelphia during the Barbary Wars?
LT Stephen Decartur
When did the USS Constitution earn it’s nickname Old Ironsides?
when it defeated the British Frigate Guerriere 19 Aug 1812
Who was the Captain of the USS Constitution when it defeated the British Frigate Guerriere?
Captain Isaac Hull
Who wrote the dispatch “We have met the enemy and they are ours”?
Captain Oliver Hazard Perry after defeating the British Squadron on Lake Erie
What was the Navy’s first ship to use steam?
USS Demologos - rechristened into the USS Fulton
What was the Navy’s first Iron-hulled warship?
USS Michigan
Who proved conclusively that Antarctica was a continent?
LT Charles Wilkes - 1840
In what conflict did the first large-scale amphibious operation in US Military history occur??
Mexican-American War - landing at Vera Cruz
Who signed the treaty with Japan March 31, 1854, opening Japan’s ports to American trade?
Commodore Mathew C. Perry
What was the first true submarine attack in naval history?
when the CSS Hunley attacked the USS Housatonic
Who is considered the Navy’s first Admiral?
David Farragut
Who said “Damn the torpedoes! full speed ahead!”
David Farragut
Who wrote the book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?
Alfred T. Mahan - one of the first instructors at the Naval War College
What is ship was labeled the first modern cruiser in the U.S. Fleet?
USS Newark
What was the battle cry for the Spanish-American war?
Remember the Maine
What were the first two battleships?
USS Texas and the USS Maine
Who was the Navy’s first aviator?
LT T.G. Ellyson
What was the first ship to use oil?
USS Nevada
Who reached the North Pole 6 April 1909?
Commander Robert E. Peary and Mathew Henson
What was the first carrier designed from the keel up?
USS Ranger
What is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
What is the largest amphibious operation in history?
Normandy
Aboard what ship were the Japanese Surrender Documents signed?
USS Missouri
What was the first nuclear submarine?
USS Nautilus
