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	Continental Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Continental Navy was authorized by the Continental Congress on October 13, 1775.
		John Paul Jones, the Continental Navy's first seaman to be appointed the rank of 1st Lieutenant.
		The lone Continental frigate, Bonhomme Richard engaged the Serapis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_Navy (1719 words)

	United States Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The United States Navy can trace its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War, but was disbanded not long afterwards in the year 1790.
		The navy was a part of the conflict from the very beginning of American involvement to the very end of the war, and proved to be a vital element in the success of the Allies.
		The Navy is administered by the Department of the Navy, led by the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/United_States_Navy (7503 words)

	United States Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War but was disbanded not long afterwards in 1790.
		The U.S. Navy was also heavily involved in the subsequent Cold War, in which it participated in the Vietnam War and was responsible for patrolling the seas in support of allies with carrier battle groups, minesweeping patrol squadrons, and submarines.
		The Navy played key roles throughout the Cold War, including the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and also heavily participated in the Vietnam War and, through the use of ballistic missile submarines, became an important aspect of the United States' nuclear strategic deterrence policy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Navy (7649 words)

	Continental Period
		Continental navy Captain Nicholas Biddle, for example, served as a youth in the Royal Navy alongside Horatio Nelson.
		Although a small effective navy might have been a source of national pride and an international display of nationhood, most congressmen were understandably less than eager, given the rather mixed record of the Continental navy, to embark on an expensive naval program.
		Since the bulk of the French navy was blockaded in its home ports by the Royal Navy, the prospect of a limited U.S. naval response to depredations primarily in the Caribbean appeared to be realistic.
	www.history.navy.mil /history/history2.htm (4463 words)

	The Continental Navy
		The construction of 13 "Continental Frigates" was authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775.
		The Continental frigate Confederacy was launched 8 November 1778 at Chatham (Norwich), Conn., and towed to New London to be prepared for sea.
		The Continental navy, therefore, naturally resorted to the readiest means of injuring the enemy, that is, by preying upon his commerce.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail1.htm (5199 words)

	Continental Navy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The continental congress was the federal legislature of the thirteen colonies and later of the united states from 1774 to 1789, a period that included...
		The continental army was the unified command structure of the thirteen colonies fighting great britain during the american revolutionary war....
		The continental marines were formed in november 10, 1775 and was disbanded in 1783....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/continental_navy.htm (1032 words)

	Learn more about United States Navy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The United States Navy is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations.
		The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on October 13, 1775 by authorizing the procurement, fitting out, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America.
		All together, the Continental Navy numbered some fifty ships over the course of the American Revolutionary War, with approximately twenty warships active at its maximum strength.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/un/united_states_navy.html (2839 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - The Fight for Independence
		The Continental Navy was established by the Second Continental Congress in October 1775 to supply and support the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
		Colonel Allen immediately wrote to the Continental Congress, pointing out that several thousand families loyal to the colonies were settled in the tract of land, known as the New Hampshire Grant, adjacent to the northern portion of Lake Champlain.
		She was purchased by the Committee of Secret Correspondence of the Continental Congress on December 20, 1776 and, with Captain Campbell still in command, operated mainly in Chesapeake Bay.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych03.htm (1458 words)

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		When the Department of the Navy was established on 30 April 1798, it was understood by all that the department included Sailors and Marines.
		In that plan, the primary strategic mission for the Navy was to fight its way across the vast Pacific Ocean and somewhere in the vicinity of the Philippines defeat the enemy navy.
		The Navy's comprehensive approach to winning the war in the Pacific, borne out by the experience of combat, culminated in the multidimensional campaigns to seize the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
	www.house.gov /hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/108thcongress/04-03-18dudley.html (3174 words)

	About Us -- Navy JAG -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Colonel Remey was able to convince Congress that the Navy Department needed a permanent uniformed Judge Advocate General and that Naval law was so unique that it was better to appoint a line officer of the Navy or Marine Corps.
		The Naval Appropriations Act of 1918, elevated the billets of Navy Bureau Chiefs and Judge Advocate General to Rear Admiral, and in July 1918, Captain George Ramsey Clark was appointed as the first Judge Advocate General to hold the rank of Rear Admiral.
		The legislation was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 8, 1967, and ensured Navy lawyer's status as members of a distinct professional group within the Navy, similar to physicians and chaplains.
	www.jag.navy.mil /AboutUs/History3.htm (516 words)

	Don't Tread on Me Flag History
		The custom of the jack-type flag had originated with the Royal Navy in the 15th century or earlier; such was the likely source of Hopkins' inspiration.
		Navy Regulations, first promulgated in 1865, prescribed the use of the jack.
		In 1975, the Secretary of the Navy directed that the First Navy Jack be flown in 1975 and 1976 in lieu of the Union Jack during the United States Bicentennial Year as a colorful and historic reminder of the nation's and the Navy's origin.
	www.navyjack.info /history.html (683 words)

	Navy celebrates 228 years of sea power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To understand the momentous significance of the decision to send two armed vessels to sea under the authority of the Continental Congress, one needs to review the strategic situation in which it was made and to consider the political struggle that lay behind it.
		Over the course of the War of Independence, the Continental Navy sent to sea more than 50 armed vessels of various types.
		The Continental Navy began the proud tradition carried on today by the United States Navy, whose birthday is celebrated each year in October.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/trident/8_36/features/25729-1.html (1014 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States Navy
		In addition to the regular line commands of the navy, several staff corps are also maintained which augment the line community and whos personnel are assigned to both line and staff commands.
		The U.S. Navy is gradually retiring its frigates; some of their jobs will be performed by the nascent littoral combat ship.
		The Navy Seals are the U.S. Navy's primary special warfare units whose purpose is to engage in "special activities other than war".
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/U.S._Navy (3787 words)

	Birth of the US Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From that beginning, the Continental Navy grew to a force that at its peak numbered forty armed vessels of various types.
		During the war, the navy's squadron's and cruisers seized enemy supplies and carried correspondence and diplomats to Europe, returning with needed munitions.
		It was in Philadelphia that the Continental Congress passed the first national naval legislation, and Philadelphia was the port where the purchase and outfitting of the first four vessels of the Continental Navy took place.
	www.sartori.com /nhc/frames/faqs/faq31-1.html (477 words)

	Continental Navy - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg The Continental Navy was authorized by the Continental Congress on October 13, 1775.
		With this small fleet, complemented by the Providence, and Wasp, Hopkins led the first major naval action of the Continental Navy, in early March 1776, against Nassau, Bahamas, where stores of much-needed gunpowder were seized for the use of the Continental Army.
		The one ship of the line built for service in the Continental Navy, the 74-gun America, was instead offered to France as compensation for the loss of its Magnifique, lost in service to the American Revolution.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Continental_Navy (392 words)

	Continental Navy
		The affairs of the little navy were at first managed by a committee of Congress only.
		This committee was modified from time to time, and finally, in October, 1779, it assumed the form and name of a "Board of Admiralty," with a salaried secretary, and was composed of members of Congress and three paid commissioners who were not members of that body.
		In the fall of 1776, the Continental ship Reprisal, Captain Wickes, carried Dr. Franklin, as American Commissioner, to France, where she cruised in European waters, the first American armed ship that had appeared there.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/continenta_bce.html (2126 words)

	The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
		It is impossible to trace the beginnings of an American navy to a single event, date, or person.
		Ironically, the most ambitious effort, the Continental Navy, was the least successful.
		The Royal Navy, with its fleets of ships of the line, was Britain's premiere instrument of war.
	www.mariner.org /usnavy/03/03a.htm (280 words)

	Amazon.com: Sea Raiders Of The American Revolution: The Continental Navy In European Waters: Books: E. Gordon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Navy of the United States, like the nation itself, was born in the midst of the bloody conflict for independence known as the American Revolution.
		The Continental Navy, as it was called then, shaped and was shaped by this difficult struggle for freedom that lasted from 1775 to 1783.
		Like naval leaders today, these Continental Navy officers faced tough choices and were forced to live with the consequences, for good or ill. Their lives and choices had an important influence on the course of the war and on the character of the naval service.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1410218775?v=glance (580 words)

	USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ US Navy Birthday Party and Canteen Music Dedication ~ October 11 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Navy actually predates the United States itself; in 1775 the Continental Congress passed a resolution urging the individual colonies to build and equip fleets, followed on August 26 by a resolution from Rhode Island that there be a single Continental fleet.
		The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.
		As it was the Continental Congress, convoked in Philadelphia, that created the Navy in their resolution of 13 October 1775, the members of Congress must collectively receive credit for the creation of the Continental Navy, the forerunner of the United States Navy.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/999283/posts (4541 words)

	Continental Navy Ship Alfred
		He realized that a Navy was necessary to defend his realm and, becasue of the dearth of Anglo-Saxon sailors, brought Frisian mariners to England from across the North Sea to man ships which he had constructed to guard England's coasts.
		Her former master, John Barry, was placed in charge of her rerigging; Joshua Humphreys was selected to superintend changes strengthening her hull, timbers, and bulwarks as well as opening gunports; and Nathaniel Falconer was made responsible for her ordnance and provisions.
		She was purchased and taken into the Royal Navy as H.M. armed ship Alfred (20 guns) and was sold in 1782.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a/alfred.htm (1582 words)

	Revolutionary America! Where Did We Go From There? The Continental Navy
		GADSEN FLAG (reproduction) used by the New Continental Fleet in 1776
		A unified naval fleet was nonexistent at the beginning of the Revolution, and so the new government turned to citizen shipowners for privateering (legalized piracy), splitting the cargo from captured British ships.
		Eventually the Continental Navy had 52 ships - former merchant vessels converted into wartime frigates - that harassed British shipping lines and captured the cargo of thousands of enemy ships.
	hoover.archives.gov /exhibits/RevAmerica/4-Where/ContinentalNavy.html (255 words)

	Privateers or Merchant Mariners help win the Revolutionary War
		Together, the Continental Navy and privateers captured 16,000 British prisoners, a substantial contribution in comparison with the 15,000 prisoners taken by the entire Continental Army before the surrender at Yorktown.
		The crew of the privateers were well paid for their hazardous work, earning as much as $1,000 for one voyage, while average pay at the time was $9 per month.
		Joshua Barney was captured by the British while serving in the Continental Navy.
	www.usmm.org /revolution.html (1396 words)

	U.S. Navy - John Paul Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He cast his lot with the rebels, and on 7 December 1775, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Continental Navy, serving aboard Esek Hopkins' flagship Alfred.
		As First Lieutenant in Alfred, he was the first to hoist the Grand Union flag on a Continental warship.
		He wrote Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft and requested the body be brought home aboard a ship of the Mediterrean Squadron.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/traditions/html/jpjones.html (612 words)

	First Navy Jack: Don't Tread on Me
		This powerful American symbol was used by the Continental Navy in 1775 and is being used again by the U.S. Navy in the War on Terrorism.
		Why the First Navy Jack has flown over the USS Kitty Hawk since 1998.
		Why the First Navy Jack is flying over all ships in the U.S. Navy for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
	www.navyjack.info (470 words)

	Continental Navy (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Under the command of John Barry she avoided the British frigate Roebuck which was just inside the entrance to Delaware Bay and succeeded in reaching the open sea.
		Off Cape Charles, Va, she captured the sloop Edward, a tender of the British frigate Liverpool, manned by a crew of twenty nine men of the British Navy, the first prize brought into the port of Philadelphia...'
		A Grand Union flag with Red and Green stripes is described in the ships chandlers reports for the port of Philadelphia for the winter of 1776-1777.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/us-cnav.html (201 words)

	Wars and conflicts of the U.S. Navy
		Casualties: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel killed and wounded in wars, conflicts and incidents with hostile forces, 1775-present.
		The Battle Streamers contain a brief history of the Navy's role in the war, conflict or operation.
		Officers of the Continental Navy and Marine Corps
	www.history.navy.mil /wars (984 words)

	Historical Flags - First Navy Jack AKA "Continental Navy Jack"
		This flag is believed to have flown aboard the Continental Fleet's flagship Alfred, in January, 1776.
		Commodore Esek Hopkins raised this flag to signal his fleet to attack the enemy.
		Today, the only US Navy ship authorized to fly this flag is the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk.
	www.anyflag.com /history/firstnav.htm (104 words)

	UNIFORMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Continental Navy
		UNIFORMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Continental Navy
		Our plate depicts the uniforms of the Continental Navy from 1776-1777.
		Standing on the far left, wearing a blue coat with red facing and vest, blue breeches with white stockings is a Lieutenant.
	www.srcalifornia.com /uniforms/s13.htm (153 words)

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