If you are a beginner, I recommend studying just the required liaisons and maybe the forbidden liaison sections, as these are the essentials. 1  If you're more advanced, study all three sections. It may be boring, but your pronunciation and ability to communicate at different levels of formality will improve dramatically.
The United States Navy claims 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. With the end of the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy was disbanded.
Nomenclature History. Warships in the United States Navy were first designated and numbered in a system originating in 1895. Under this system, ships were designated as Battleship X, Cruiser X, Destroyer X, Torpedo Boat X and so forth where X was the series hull number as authorized by the US Congress.