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    Ripple (American Steam Trawler, 1910)

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    Ripple, a 244 gross ton steam-powered fishing trawler built at Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1910, was purchased by the Imperial Russian Government in 1917 for use during World War I. However, the revolution in that country prevented her from leaving the United States and, in May 1918 she was chartered by the U.S. Navy. Placed in service in August 1918 as Ripple (ID # 2439), she operated as a minesweeper off New York City for the remainder of the conflict and for the first few months of the post-Armistice period. Ripple was returned to representatives of the Russian Government in February 1919.
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    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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