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unusual facts about USS ''Annapolis''



1856 in the United States

January 26 – Puget Sound War/Yakima WarBattle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

On March 22, two MV-22 Osprey, containing a payload of twenty five Recon Marines as a TRAP force, and operated by the 26th MEU operating off of the USS Kearsage recovered the pilot of a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle who ejected after an equipment malfunction.

8th millennium BC

In 2268 of Star Trek: The Original Series, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid called Yonada is actually an inhabited multi-generation ship of millions of people.

Anita Lallande

After the games, Lallande announced her retirement from all sports activities and moved to New York City and later to Annapolis, Maryland.

Annapolis, Nova Scotia

Annapolis River, a river running through the western part of the Annapolis Vally

Anne Arundel Medical Center

In addition to a 57-acre Annapolis campus, AAMC has outpatient pavilions in Bowie, Kent Island, Odenton and Waugh Chapel.

Archerfish

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Archerfish, the first one holding the distinction of sinking the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine, the 68,059-ton Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, on November 29, 1944.

Arunah Shepherdson Abell

Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia by ship from Europe, it traveled overland by pony to Annapolis, by steamship to Portland, Maine, and then by rail to Baltimore.

Asaph Hall

Hall died in November 1907 while visiting his son Angelo in Annapolis, Maryland.

Atka Iceport

It was named by personnel of the USS Atka, under U.S. Navy Commander Glen Jacobsen, which moored here in February 1955 while investigating possible base sites for International Geophysical Year operations.

Battle of Fort Cumberland

When the news reached Halifax through the efforts of Thomas Dixson, Lieutenant Governor Marriot Arbuthnot responded by dispatching orders on the 15th for any available ship based at Annapolis to go to Fort Edward in Windsor, to convoy troops to relieve the siege.

Benner

USS Benner, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Brazil Squadron

An expedition to the Falkland Islands was launched in late 1831 when the sloop-of-war USS Lexington was sent to Puerto Soledad to investigate the capture and possible armament of two American whalers.

Chicken shack

Jimmie's Chicken Shack, an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland

Communication Moon Relay

The finished system used two sets of transmitters at Annapolis, Maryland and the Opana Radar Site in Hawaii and two sets of receivers at Cheltenham, Maryland and Wahiawa, Hawaii.

Coronado Islands

In May 1943 the U.S. Navy's USS PC-815, commanded by L. Ron Hubbard, conducted unauthorized gunnery exercises involving the shelling of the Coronado Islands, in the belief they were uninhabited and belonged to the United States.

D'Lo, Mississippi

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington which was sunk in 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea was constructed in some areas with lumber that had been milled in D'Lo.

David G. Boschert

He was appointed by Governor Parris Glendening in 2000 as Executive Director of the Annapolis Regional Transportation Management Association.

Dominique Lefèbvre

The US Captain John Percival of the USS Constitution failed in his attempts to have him released, but managed to inform Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille who obtained his release.

Evan Peter Aurand

He remained active in civic affairs in Honolulu until his death at 71 on June 7, 1989 and was buried at sea from the USS Benjamin Stoddert off Kawaihoa Point (Koko Head), Oahu.

Gyatt

USS Gyatt, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Holly Graf

Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet.

IraqComm

DynaSpeak speech recognition is also used in the Phraselator, a weatherproof handheld language translation device developed by VoxTec, a former division of the military contractor Marine Acoustics, located in Annapolis, MD.

Joseph B. Murdock

After an education in public schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts on 26 July 1866.

Louis N. Stodder

In 1863 Stodder was commander of the USS Adela, a former blockade runner which was attached to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Manning Kimmel

Asakaze was sunk on August 23, 1944 off Cape Bilinao (Luzon) by USS Haddo (SS-255), and Yūnagi was sunk August 25, 1944 off N.W. Luzon by the USS Picuda (SS-382).

Marcia Talley

On September 5, 1964 she married her college sweetheart, John Barry Talley, who was for thirty-six years Director of Musical Activities at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation

Other beneficiaries have included the children of those who died as a result of the bombing of the USS Cole, of the Air Force personnel killed at Khobar Towers, and of the passengers on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Mayne Island

Active Pass is named after the American survey ship USS Active, the first steam vessel to navigate the pass.

Merrimac, Queensland

The community takes its name from two possible sources: the Merrimack River in New England (U.S.) or the USS Merrimac, a Union navy frigate itself named for the river.

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island

The Royal Air Force had recently started Training School #31 for this same purpose in Clinton, Ontario, and a small group of U.S. naval officers was sent there in mid-1941 to gather information for a similar school to be located on the campus of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Navy Electronics Laboratory

World headlines came early in this program from several events—the submerged voyage of USS Nautilus from the Pacific to the Atlantic, via the North Pole, in 1958, and the surfacing at the pole of USS Skate the following year, both with NEL’s Dr. Waldo Lyon aboard as chief scientist and ice pilot.

Project HOPE

Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from the USS Consolation (AH-15)).

Robert Christopher

Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

S5G reactor

This nuclear reactor was installed both as a land-based prototype at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho, and on board the USS Narwhal (SSN-671); both have been decommissioned.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Terrorism in Yemen

A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama

The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the rebel privateer CSS Alabama.

Tony Lagouranis

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City, going on to study Ancient Greek as part of his degree program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

USS Whitehead

On 1–2 March 1864, Whitehead and Southfield sailed up the Chowan River and freed USS Bombshell from her encirclement by Confederate shore batteries.

USS X-1

Towed to Annapolis, Maryland, in December 1960, X-1 was reactivated and attached to Submarine Squadron 6 and based at the Small Craft Facility of the Severn River Command for experimental duties in Chesapeake Bay.

VFA-81

Their first deployment was with CVG-17 in late 1956 aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Suez Crisis.

VS-41

The squadron history or lineages should not be confused with the VS-41 "Tophatters" that flew the SBD-3 Dauntless torpedo bombers during World War II from the deck of USS Ranger.

Waban

One United States Navy ship, USS Waban, a steamer in commission from 1898 to 1919, has been named for Waban, and kept the name (as SS Waban) while in post-Navy mercantile service from 1919 to 1924.

Weapon System Safety

The United States Navy formed the Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) in 1968 as a result of the tragic fire on the USS Forrestal (CV-59).

Westfield Annapolis

The site was at one time the location of the Annapolis terminus of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, and was known as the "Best Gate" station, which had three single-ended and four double-ended sidings, where rail cars could be shunted on or off of the single-track WB&A east-west railway which ran to the north-south Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad lines.

William Bowie

Captain William Bowie (1721-?), early colonist in the Province of Maryland, American Revolutionary, member of the Assembly of Freemen and a delegate to the Annapolis Convention


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