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Today in Naval History
June 18
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Year at a Glance
1812 - The United States declares war on Great Britain for impressment of Sailors and interference with commerce.
On This Day

1812

The United States declares war on Great Britain for impressment of Sailors and interference with commerce.

1814

The sloop of war Wasp, commanded by Johnston Blakely, captures and scuttles the British merchant brig Pallas in the eastern Atlantic.

1875

The side-wheel steamer, USS Saranac, wrecks in Seymour Narrows, off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

1957

Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, approves the ship characteristics of the Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine.

1983

USS Florida (SSGN 728) is commissioned at Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn. The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, is the first submarine to be named after the 27th state, but the sixth vessel in the Navy.