This Day in Naval History - Sept. 09 1841 - Congress authorizes the first iron-hulled warship. Designed by Samuel Hart, USS Michigan launches in December 1843 and serves to protect the Great Lakes. 1943 - Operation Avalanche, Task Force 80 (Western Naval Task Force) under Vice Adm. Henry K. Hewitt, lands the Allied Fifth Army on the assault beaches in the Gulf of Salerno, Italy. Naval gunfire eventually grows in effectiveness as Operation Avalanche proceeds and delivers a great volume of counter-battery, interdiction, and neutralization fire m becoming one of the decisive factors in holding the Salerno beachhead. 1944 - USS Bang (SS 385) attacks a Japanese convoy 3905, en route from Tokyo Bay to Chichi Jima, and sinks transport Tokiwasan Maru, and freighter Shoryu Maru. 1945 - Japanese forces in the southern part of Korea surrender in ceremonies held in Seoul, marking the end of three and a half decades of Japanese rule in Korea. 1947 - Grace Hopper is part of a team that finds a moth in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard. Affixing it to the computer log, the team enters: First actual case of bug being found. The words bug and debug soon became standard computer-programmer language. Grace Hopper later attains the rank of rear admiral. (Eds Note: The USS Hopper DDG-70) was named in her honor.) 1961 - USS Long Beach (CG(N)9) is commissioned as the first nuclear power surface warship in history and is assigned to the Atlantic Fleet and home ported at Norfolk, Va.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:57:01 +0000
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