251010-O-NJ594-1201, October 10, 2025, Portsmouth, Va. -- Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) holds a cake cutting ceremony for the U.S. Navy’s 250th birthday, on the NMCFHPC quarterdeck, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, in Virginia. On Oct. 13, 1775, a resolution of the Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with “a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportional number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible dispatch, for a cruise of three months….” After the American War of Independence, the U.S. Constitution empowered the new Congress “to provide and maintain a navy.” Acting on this authority, Congress established the Department of the Navy on Apr. 30, 1798. (U.S. Navy photo by Desmond Martin)
| Date Taken: | 10.10.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 11.25.2025 11:12 |
| Photo ID: | 9409411 |
| VIRIN: | 251010-O-NJ594-1202 |
| Resolution: | 5600x4480 |
| Size: | 4.33 MB |
| Location: | PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, US |
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