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Long Island, a 167-ton steam trawler, was built in 1912 at Rockland, Maine. She was purchased by the Navy in April 1917 and commissioned the next month as USS Long Island (SP-572). Through World War I she served as a harbor patrol vessel, minesweeper and icebreaker, mainly in the Boston area. In March-April 1918, she made an ocean voyage, escorting a submarine chaser to Bermuda. A few months after the end of hostilities, Long Island was assigned duty as a temporary lightship off Charleston, South Carolina. In June 1919 she began two months' of operations along the Atlantic coast between Hampton Roads, Virginia, and Boston. USS Long Island was decommissioned in September 1919 and sold the following December.
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |