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1861;During the Civil War, the screw steamer New London, along with screw steamer R.R. Cuyler and crew members of the screw steamer Massachusetts, capture the Confederate schooner Olive with a cargo of lumber in Mississippi Sound. 1918;U.S. battleships witness the surrender of German High Seas fleet at Rosyth, Firth of Forth, Scotland to US and British fleets. 1942;USS Cincinnati (CL 6) and USS <em>Somers</em> (DD 381) uncover the Norwegian ship SS Skjilbred as being the German blockade runner Anneliese Essberger after setting explosions and boarding the ship. Survivors are taken on board USS <em>Milwaukee</em> (CL 5). 1943;USS Nautilus (SS 168) lands US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Company on Abemama, Gilberts while USS <em>Trigger</em> (SS 237) sinks Japanese freighter Eizan Maru in the Yellow Sea. 1944;USS Sealion (SS 315) sinks the Japanese battleship Kongo and destroyer Urakaze north-northwest of Formosa.
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