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Today In History - March 10th
(click on a Ships's Name & Hull# to see it's profile & history)
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| Monday, March 10, 1919 |  USS Maddox (DD-168) : Commissioned. | | Thursday, March 10, 1921 | USS Chase (DD-323) : Commissioned. | | Thursday, March 10, 1938 | USS Savannah (CL-42) : Commissioned. | | Monday, March 10, 1941 | USS O-10 (SS-71) : Recommissioned. With the approach World War II, there was a recognized need for numerous training subs. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1943 | USS Daly (DD-519) : Commissioned. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1943 | USS Cabana (DE-260) : Launched. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1943 | USS Dionne (DE-261) : Launched. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1943 | USS Apogon (SS-308) : Launched. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Mazama (AE-9) : Commissioned. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Montour (APA-101) : Launched. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Ingraham (DD-694) : Commissioned. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Leopold (DE-319) : Decommissioned. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Leopold (DE-319) : Sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-255 south of Iceland. | | Friday, March 10, 1944 | USS Bowfin (SS-287) : Bowfin sighted a convoy of four ships screened by a couple of escorts. Bowfin fired six bow tubes, but four of the torpedoes exploded prematurely. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Fentress (AK-180) : Launched. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Carpellotti (APD-136) : Launched. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Alger (DE-101) : Decommissioned. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Gurnard (SS-254) : Gunard's 9th war patrol included reconnaissance off Camranh Bay and with submarines Hammerhead and Boarfish, but hunting was poor and no ships were sunk. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Sawfish (SS-276) : Sawfish sailed for her 10th and last war patrol, which she spent on lifeguard station off Nansei Shoto, supporting air strikes preparing for and covering the conquest of Okinawa. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS Hammerhead (SS-364) : Beginning her 5th war patrol, Hammerhead proceeded to the coast of Indochina. | | Saturday, March 10, 1945 | USS YTL 588 (YTL-588) : Launched. | | Sunday, March 10, 1946 | USS LST 130 (LST-130) : Decommissioned. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1948 | USS Boxer (CV-21) : Boxer was the site of the first landing of a Navy jet aircraft, the FJ-1 Fury, aboard an aircraft carrier. | | Tuesday, March 10, 1953 | USS Everett (PF-8) : Decommissioned. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1954 | USS Implicit (AM-455) : Commissioned. | | Wednesday, March 10, 1954 | USS Westchester County (LST-1167) : Commissioned. | | Thursday, March 10, 1955 | USS Jacana (AMS-193) : Commissioned. | | Thursday, March 10, 1955 | USS Truckee (AO-147) : Launched. | | Saturday, March 10, 1962 | USS Tigrone (SS-419) : Tigrone was recommissioned and underwent overhaul and conversion at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Phildelphia, PA. | | Saturday, March 10, 1962 | USS Thomas A Edison (SSBN-610) : Commissioned with CAPT. Charles M. Young commanding the Blue Crew and CAPT. Walter Dedrick commanding the Gold Crew.
| | Saturday, March 10, 1979 | USS John Hancock (DD-981) : Commissioned. | | Saturday, March 10, 1979 | USS Ingersoll (DD-990) : Launched. | | Saturday, March 10, 1984 | USS Nicholas (FFG-47) : Commissioned. | | Saturday, March 10, 1984 | USS Minneapolis-St Paul (SSN-708) : Commissioned with CDR. Ralph Schlichter in command.
| | Thursday, March 10, 1994 | USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) : Theodore Roosevelt received it's third Battle "E". |
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