FARRAGUT, Tenn. — Eight U.S. Navy sailors visited Farragut this week as part of a Navy program called "Namesake Visits." The eight sailors recently returned home from months-long deployments aboard ...
1814 - A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte, at Barataria, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates flee the ...
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Today in U.S. Naval History - September 17 1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island, Mississippi. This was the headquarters for Adm. David Farragut's Gulf ...