(Image: NOAA)Even before there was a United States, the American people were innovators in military technology. David Bushnell, a Connecticut supporter of the rebellion against British rule, designed and built the roughl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/07/1775-America-Builds-Its-First-Submarine/(The Monitor vs. The Merrimac by Louis Prang & Co.)During the American Civil War, the US Navy blockaded Southern ports and largely cut the Confederacy off from the rest of the world. But the South did have some succe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/03/The-Extraordinary-Voyage-of-the-CSS-Shenandoah/This is a painting of HMS St. Lawrence. With 112 guns, it was the largest warship ever seen on the Great Lakes and the largest Royal Navy vessel to ever sail entirely on fresh water.After Napoleon abdicated, the British...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/15/In-1814-This-Massive-Warship-Cruised-Lake-Ontario/(Image via the US Navy Art Collection)During the American Civil War, Confederate commandos and agents launched small attacks and engaged in clandestine activities from British Canada. Most famously, they robbed three ban...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/11/The-Confederate-Navys-Crazy-Plan-to-Raid-the-Great-Lakes/The US Navy's base at Norfolk, Virginia is the largest in the world. It can berth a vast number of ships. On 20 December, the station was packed with five aircraft carriers and four amphibious assault ships:Five aircraft...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/27/Home-for-Christmas-9-Flattops-at-Norfolk/Launched in 1797, the frigate USS Constitution is the oldest vessel in active service in the United States Navy. Since 1881, it has sailed without the aid of tugs only once. Tomorrow, it will do so again to mark the 200t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/18/USS-iConstitutioni-to-Sail-Once-Again/Wyoming's legislature is considering a bill that would establish a commission to draw up a plan to prepare the state for the collapse of the United States government. Should that event ever occur, Wyoming's government wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/28/wyoming-considers-acquiring-an-aircraft-carrier/(Video Link) This video shows a sport native to the British Royal Navy. It's in memory of a particular incident during the Second Boer War in which sailors quickly brought a gun from their ship to an inland battlefie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/royal-navy-field-gun-competition/It might seem odd that nations with no access to t... ...ain separate military organizations identified as navies , but these forces have access only to inland rive... ...sailors experience actual sea duty serving in the navies of friendly Latin Amercian neighbors. And the fl...
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