54°43′27″N 5°27′00″W / 54.72417°N 5.45000°W / 54.72417; -5.45000 The North Channel naval duel was a single-ship action between the United States Continental...
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John Paul Jones (category 18th-century American naval officers)
the campaign, he raided the English town of Whitehaven, won the North Channel Naval Duel and fought at the Battle of Flamborough Head, gaining him an international...
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(1775–1783) Western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1777–1782) Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War Modern history portal List...
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USS Ranger (1777) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
afterwards the British commenced the final push. Although the channel and harbor configuration made naval operations and support difficult, Ranger took a station...
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American Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel – John Paul Jones in USS Ranger captures HMS Drake (1777) in the North Channel. May – HMS Victory is commissioned...
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April 1778, off Carrickfergus in northern Ireland, she fought the North Channel naval duel with the 18-gun sloop Ranger of the Continental Navy, commanded...
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Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. The...
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The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, in Scots as the Sheuch) is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland...
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Frederica naval action 19 April - American victory Battle off Liverpool, Nova Scotia 24 April - British defeat French raid North Channel Naval Duel 24 April...
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American Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel: John Paul Jones in USS Ranger captures HMS Drake in the North Channel off Carrickfergus. Papists...
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Dover Strait coastal guns (redirect from Cross-Channel guns of the Second World War)
Heeres-Eisenbahnartillerie [Artillery Duel of the Long-Range Guns in the Pas de Calais 1940–1944: from the Perspective of the Heavy German Naval Batteries "Großer Kurfürst"...
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Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel: Scottish-born John Paul Jones in the USS Ranger (1777) captures HMS Drake (1777) in the North Channel off Carrickfergus...
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Battle of Hampton Roads (category Naval battles of the American Civil War)
of the Confederate Navy, pp. 164–167. Davis, Duel between the first ironclads, pp. 160–164. Simson, Naval strategies of the Civil War, p. 86. Browning...
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Wings (1988 TV series) (redirect from Wings (Discovery Channel TV series))
aviation history documentary television series which aired on the Discovery Channel family of networks. It was produced by Phil Osborn. Originally called Great...
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USS Corry (DD-463) (category World War II shipwrecks in the English Channel)
ammunition at numerous onshore targets. At approximately H-Hour, during a duel with a shore battery, Corry suffered several hits from 210mm (8-inch) shells...
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Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II (category World War II naval ships of Japan)
during the first battleship duel of the Pacific War. These two night battles became known as the First and Second Naval Battles of Guadalcanal. They...
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HMS Orion (85) (category Corfu Channel incident)
the Narrows channel at night and arriving at the dockyard at 0246 on the 23rd of September, from where Quinn was delivered to the Royal Naval Hospital....
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16-inch/45-caliber Mark 6 gun (redirect from 16 inch / 45 caliber Mark 6 naval gun)
6 gun is a naval gun designed in 1936 by the United States Navy for their Treaty battleships. It was introduced in 1941 aboard their North Carolina-class...
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Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet (category British naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
English Channel but in fact Villeneuve was on his way to the West Indies. Orde therefore took his squadron north to rendezvous with the Channel Fleet....
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Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer) (redirect from Charles Napier (naval officer))
S. Naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, (since making her only war cruise during the first year of the War) to come out and fight a single-ship duel. The...
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the Four Detectives Anon. (Jack Lewis) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 837 A Duel to the Death Anon. (George N. Philips) Notable character debut: Monsieur...
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CSS Virginia (category Naval magazine explosions)
Union's USS Monitor in March 1862. The battle is chiefly significant in naval history as the first battle between ironclads. When the Commonwealth of...
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Royal Navy during World War I (category Naval battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom)
Seas Fleet. Beatty also turned round. The two forces fought an hour-long duel on a parallel course, which the Germans won by sinking the battlecruisers...
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Battle of Cherbourg (1864) (category Military history of the English Channel)
Philadelphia. The 37th album of Les Tuniques Bleues, titled Duel dans la Manche ("Duel in the Channel"), takes place during the Battle of Cherbourg, on USS...
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The First Anglo-Dutch War, or First Dutch War, was a naval conflict between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic. Largely caused by disputes...
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USS Lexington (CV-16) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
Mark (20 November 2007). USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific 1942 (Duel). Osprey Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-84603-248-6. Smith, Peter C (2014)...
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List of maritime disasters in World War II (category World War II naval ships)
This is a list of naval vessels sunk or otherwise severely damaged with loss of life during the Second World War. List of maritime disasters List of maritime...
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700 Naval Air Squadron 733 Naval Air Squadron 747 Naval Air Squadron 750 Naval Air Squadron 753 Naval Air Squadron 754 Naval Air Squadron 756 Naval Air...
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drilled, as intended by the US planners. However naval ships do not fight as individuals by the code of the duel, they are national instruments of war, and...
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Hathcock's actual 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock's duel with Cobra was mentioned in the History Channel Sniper - Inside The Crosshairs in 2016. As in Mythbusters...
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