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The Island's Navy Namesake: USS Nantucket Commissioned In ...

The USS Nantucket, the newest U.S. Navy warship, was docked beside the oldest ship in the Navy's fleet at the Charlestown Navy Yard in ...

Ford Island - Wikipedia

Ford Island (Hawaiian: Poka ʻAilana) is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, ...

Naval Air Station North Island - Commander, Navy Region Southwest

North Island was commissioned a naval air station in 1917. The station, which was originally called the Naval Air Station, San Diego until 1955.

About Whidbey Island - Commander, Navy Region Northwest

The Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Marine (forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard), explored, charted, and protected the area during the mid-nineteenth century.

[FEATURE ARTICLE] Rhode Island's Namesake Warships

... ARTICLE] Rhode Island's Namesake Warships: Past, Present, and (Maybe) Future ... February 9, 2021 By Brian Wallin. “Continental Navy Sloop “Providence”, ...

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island - Wikipedia

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) is a naval air station of the United States Navy located on two pieces of land near Oak Harbor, on Whidbey Island, ...

A Pictorial History of NAS Whidbey Island

By William R. Stein and the Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island in Washington State has a long and storied history ...

History - NAS North Island, CA

NAS North Island has a long, interesting history. It is the birthplace of US Naval Aviation, as the site where, in 1911, Naval Aviator #1, Lt. Theodore G. ...

Mare Island History - Visit Vallejo

The collier Jupiter was launched at Mare Island in 1912 and was the first electrically driven ship in the U.S. Navy. After WWI, she was later converted into the ...

History of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island – Basewatch - Evergreen

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI), located on its namesake island in the northern Puget Sound, was officially commissioned on September 21, 1942.

11th AF Det. 1 Wake Island - 15th Wing

Plans were developed in 1938 for an outlying naval base on Wake Atoll; however, construction did not begin until January 1941. On December 8, 1941, the same day ...

USS Makin Island Commemorates Namesake - PACOM

The ship's name is in honor of Marine Raider Companies A and B, Second Raider Battalion on Japanese-held Makin Island, in the Gilbert Islands, Aug. 17-18, 1942.

Naval Base Coronado | Base Overview & Info - Military Installations

The station, which was originally called the Naval Air Station, San Diego until 1955; was granted official recognition as the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation" by ...

Birthplace of Naval Aviation - San Diego Air & Space Museum

On January 15, 1912, Ellyson set up the first aviation squadron on the northeast side of North Island consisting of tents for personnel and three aircraft (two ...

Naval Air Station North Island Base Guide - Military.com

Naval Air Station North Island is the official birthplace of Naval Aviation because the Navy's first aviator, Lieutenant Theodore Ellyson, and many of his ...

Robert Daniell: Daniel Island's Namesake

There were English settlers on Etiwan Island as early as 1673. In an agreement with the English, members of the tribe were moved to the Goose Creek area by 1685 ...

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island | Base Overview & Info

The first entry in the official log of NASWI was on September 21, 1942. Originally, the Air Station was commissioned as a base for seaplane patrol operations, ...

USS Makin Island Commemorates Namesake - PACOM

PACIFIC OCEAN -- Sailors, and Marines with 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), aboard USS Makin Island (LHD 8), commemorated the 80th anniversary of the ...

Ship History - USS KIDD

In the traditional system of naming destroyers after Naval heroes, she was named after Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, Sr. who was killed aboard his flagship, ...

Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress

... Navy attack submarines, a former Secretary of the Navy, an island, ... Name the Navy's Newest Sub Tour State's Namesake,” Navy News. Service ...