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18th of July
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17 July 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered. The first performance of the Water Music suites is recorded in The Daily Courant, the first British daily newspaper. At about 8 p.m...
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1545 - Battle of the Solent with
sinking of carrack Mary Rose
The naval Battle of the Solent took place on 18 and 19 July 1545 during the Italian Wars between the fleets of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England, in the Solent between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The engagement was inconclusive,
and is most notable for the sinking of the English carrack Mary Rose.
The remains of the
Mary Rose's hull. All deck levels can be made out clearly, including the minor remnants of the sterncastle deck.
1779 - largest prize value of the American Revolution,
Commodore Abraham Whipples squadron consisting of
Continental frigates Providence, Queen of France and sloop Ranger, captures 11 British prizes off the Newfoundland Banks sailing from Jamaica. The cargoes are worth more than $1 million.
1792 - Continental Navy Capt. John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France.
A legend during the American Revolution, Jones argues for Congress establishing a United States Navy. When it fails to do so, the unemployed captain found work as a rear admiral in the Russian navy for a couple of years, but eventually returns to France, where he dies. More than a century later, his body is discovered, exhumed, brought back to the United States under huge fanfare and reburied in a magnificent sarcophagus at the United States Naval Academy.
1798 - HMS Aigle (38) wrecked off Cape Farina, Spain.
The French frigate Aigle was launched in 1780 as a privateer (Builder: Dujardin, Saint Malo, plans by
Jacques-Noël Sané ). The French navy purchased her in 1782, but the British captured her that same year and took her into the Royal Navy as a 38-gun fifth rate under her existing name.
During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where she wrecked in 1798.
Aigle was under Admiral Sir Charles Tyler,
GCB (1760 - 28 September 1835) command when she wrecked on Plane Island off Cape Farina, Tunisia, due to an error in navigation. All the crew were saved.
[18] Tyler was also acquitted of the loss.
1799 - HMS Alcmene (32), Cptn. G. Hope, and boats
captured two Spanish vessels.
1898 - The Third Battle of Manzanillo
was a battle 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 in the third largest naval battle of the
Spanish–American War.
1813 - During the War of 1812, the
frigate, USS President, commanded by John Rodgers,
sinks the British brig, HMS Daphne, off the Irish coast.
In the next few weeks, she engages three more vessels. USS President captures the ship, HMS Eliza Swan July 24, burns the brig, HMS Alert, on July 29, and captures the bark Lion on Aug. 2.
1943 - German submarine (U 134) shoots down blimp (K 74), the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II, in the Fla. straits.
On 10 June 1943 U-134 sailed once more to the Florida coast on her ninth and final patrol, where the American 250-foot-long (76 m), Goodyear-built ZPK-class K-74 blimp became the only airship to be shot down in the war. K-74, launched from NAS Richmond, Florida, detected U-134 on radar in the Straits of Florida at 23:40 on 18 July 1943. United States Navy doctrine required blimps to stay out of range of surfaced submarines and guide aircraft or ships to attack.
U.S. Navy K-class blimp over a convoy during the Second World War.
