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• The first Hornet was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War. The first two ships in the new Continental Navy were Hornet and Wasp.
• The second Hornet was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War. In company with two other American ships, she attacked the port of Derna and silenced its guns in a battle lasting less than an hour. This allowed a combined force of about 400 American Marines and Arab, Greek and Berber mercenaries who had made a gruelling 400 mile overland march to capture the city - an event immortalized in the Marine Hymn "To the shores of Tripoli".
• The third Hornet was a brig-rigged sloop of war was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October. Hornet sank in a storm off TampicoTampico is the main city in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico and the Gulf's main economic powerhouse. It is located at 22. 85°W, on the Gulf of Mexico. Tampico is an important sea port. The city was founded by Spain in 1554. In 2003 the estimated populatio, MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co on 29 September, 1829Events January 8 Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke his associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released January 19 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres March 4 Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President o with the loss of all on board.
• The fourth Hornet was a five gun schoonerA schooner is a type of sailing ship characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the time of the American Revolution. used as a dispatch vessel between 18131813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 17 Through a newspaper, the Prussian king Frederick William III of Prussia calls for resistance against the Napoleonic occupation April 27 War of 1812: Battle of York and 1820Events January 1 Constitutionalist military insurrection at Cadiz leads to summoning of Spanish parliament ( March 7) and restoration of 1812 Constitution ( March 8) by king Ferdinand VII. January 29 George the Prince Regent becomes king George IV of the.
• The fifth HornetThe fifth USS Hornet the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. She was originally a Confederate blockade runner, Lady Sterling built at Blackwall, England in 1864. She was badly damaged and captured on October 28, 1864 off Wilmin, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer.
• The sixth Hornet , a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War.
• The seventh Hornet (CV-8) launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942 along with Enterprise, fought at the battle of Midway, and was sunk at the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
• The eighth Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II. She later recovered both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 crews, and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.

The F/A-18 strike fighter carries on the name Hornet in the Navy.