The United States Navy celebrates the eighty-fifth anniversary of its founding

The United States Navy was founded when the Continental Congress established a Naval Committee to prepare the Revolution to make war at sea against Great Britain.  Eighty-five years later it was largely at war with itself, with officer corps and infrastructure split between North and South.  (By John Osborne) 
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Norman Polmar, The Navy Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet ( Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 2005), 32. 
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