US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has confirmed that a future US Navy Constellation-class guided-missile frigate (FFG) will be named USS Galvez. The ship honours Conde Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, who provided supplies, intelligence, and military support to the American colonists during the...
American Revolution
BOOK REVIEW | Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America, 1775-1783
Quintin Barry is a retired British lawyer and employment judge who has a rather obsessive interest in and talent for recording military, particularly naval, history. This ..
FreightWaves Classics: America’s first lighthouse went “on line” 305 years ago
A lighthouse on what is now named Little Brewster Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor began to operate on this day in 1716. The lighthouse was called the Boston Light.
An earlier FreightWaves Classics article outlined the history of lighthouses in the United States. As noted in that article, ships today have navigational and communications aids that were almost unthinkable even 50 years ago, much less in the 1700s. Back then (and ever since) lighthouses signaled mariners as they approached...