Online Library of Selected Images:

The Events section of the Online Library provides access to pictures related to a variety of 19th and 20th Century occurrences. This section, presently very brief, will gradually expand to provide broad coverage of events and activities that have had an impact on the U.S. Navy's history.

This page lists in chronological order all events for which pictorial presentations are currently available through the Online Library.

If the event you require is not listed on this page, contact the Photographic Section concerning other research options.

The War with Tripoli, 1801-1805:

• Capture of USS Philadelphia, 31 October 1803
• Burning of the Philadelphia, 16 February 1804

The War of 1812, 1812-1815:

• USS Constitution escapes from a British Squadron, July 1812
• USS Constitution captures HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812
• USS Hornet sinks HMS Peacock, 24 February 1813
• HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake, 1 June 1813
• USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin, 23 March 1815

The American Civil War, 1861-1865:

• CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress, 8 March 1862
• Action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, 9 March 1862
• USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864

Miscellaneous Events of the 1860s:

• USS Miantonomoh - European Cruise, 1866-1867

Events of the 1880s:

• Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881
• Hurricane at Apia, Samoa, 15-16 March 1889

Spanish-American War, 1898

Events of the early 20th Century:

• Northern European Cruise by USS Kearsarge and other ships of the U.S. European Squadron, June-July 1903
• Boiler Explosion on USS Bennington, 21 July 1905
• World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909
• Earthquake at Messina, Sicily, 28 December 1908


• Eugene Ely's Flight from USS Birmingham, 14 November 1910 (the first airplane takeoff from a warship)
• Eugene Ely's Flight to USS Pennsylvania, 18 January 1911 (the first airplane landing on a warship)
• USS Nero Alaska Radio Expedition, May-November 1912
• USS Ajax transports Submarines B-2 and B-3 to the Philippines, December 1912 - May 1913


• Loss of USS Memphis, 29 August 1916
• Stranding of USS H-3 and USS Milwaukee, and salvage of USS H-3, December 1916 - April 1917
• Influenza Epidemic of 1918
• President Wilson's European voyages on USS George Washington, December 1918 - July 1919
• Stranding, Recovery and Repair of USS Northern Pacific, January-May 1919
• USS Graf Waldersee damaged in collision with S.S. Redondo, 11 June 1919

The First World War, 1914-1918:

• Voyage from the U.S. to the Azores by USS Margaret and other converted yachts, Nov.-Dec. 1917
• USS President Lincoln torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-90, 31 May 1918
• USS Covington torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-86, 1-2 July 1918
• S.S. Westward Ho torpedoed by German submarine U-62, 8 August 1918
• USS West Bridge torpedoed by German submarine, 15 August 1918
• Torpedoing of USS Mount Vernon by German submarine U-82, 5 September 1918
• USS Ticonderoga sunk by German submarine U-152, 30 September 1918
• S.S. Lucia torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-155, 17 October 1918

Events of the 1920s:

• Loss of USS S-5, 1 September 1920
• Burning of the French Transport Vinh-Long, 16 December 1922
• Honda Point Disaster, 8 September 1923
• Storm Damage to USS Shenandoah, 16 January 1924
• Loss of USS Shenandoah, 3 September 1925
• Sinking and Salvage of USS S-4, 17 December 1927 - March 1928

World War II in the Atlantic and Europe, 1939-1945:

• Battle of the River Plate, December 1939
• German Battleship Bismarck's Atlantic Sortie, May 1941
• Normandy Invasion, June 1944

World War II in the Pacific, 1941-1945:

• Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941

Miscellaneous Operations and Actions, 1942:

• Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
• Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942
• Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942
• Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942 - February 1943
• Marshall Islands Campaign, January-February 1942
  --- USS Washington and USS Indiana Collide, 1 February 1944
• Iwo Jima Operation, February - March 1945
• Japan Capitulates, August - September 1945




World War II Diplomacy, 1939-1945:

• The Potsdam Conference, July - August 1945

Korean War, 1950-1953

Events of the 1960s:

• The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, August 1964

("USS Maddox (DD-731) -- Actions in the Gulf of Tonkin, August 1964")

• Operation "Sailor Hat" Explosive Tests at Kahoolawe, Hawaii, February-June 1965
• USS Frank Knox (DDR-742) -- Grounding and Salvage, July-August 1965

Events of the 1970s:

• USS Little Rock (CLG-4) at the Reopening of the Suez Canal, 5 June 1975

To the best of our knowledge, the pictures provided in the Online Library of Selected Images are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

If you require higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."