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 * 1822 - Crew from the USS Enterprise capture and burn seven small pirate vessels off Cape San Antonio.
 * 1862 - The ironclad CSS Virginia destroys the wooden ships USS Cumberland and USS Congress in Hampton Roads.
 * 1943 - PBY-5A Catalinas from VP-53 sink German submarine U-156 east-northeast of Trinidad.
 * 1945 - Phyllis Mae Dailey becomes the first African-American ensign in the Nurse Corps and serves at the Naval Dispensary at Boston.
 * 1945 - Navy patrol bombers hit a Japanese convoy, sinking cargo vessel No. 21 Yusen Maru in Formosa Strait.
 * 1950 - Operation PORTREX begins. The two-week-long exercise is the first use of airborne troops in support of an amphibious landing and takes place on Vieques Island.
 * 1961 - USS Patrick Henry returns from patrol to become the first ballistic missile submarine to use Holy Loch, as a refit and upkeep anchorage.
 * 2009 - USNS Wally Schirra is christened and launched at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company.

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