To be clear, Forest is the word spelling and Forrest the name spelling, and Forrest remains a much more popular choice with 387 boys given the name in 2015, ranking at #659. Forrest also had a dip in 2006 with only 147 births, disappearing from the charts between 2003 and 2013, and it also peaked in 1994 with 1,343 boys born, rising to #217.
U.S. Navy Celebrates 239th Birthday. By MarEx 2014-10-12 19:29:00. The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on 13 October 1775, by authorizing the procurement and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America.
The Department of the Navy was established on 30 April 1798. Note that there was a Navy during the War for Independence, it was established by the Continental Congress on 13 â¦ October 1775. That date is observed as the official Navy Birthday.That forefather of the Department of the Navy was effectively disbanded at the end of the war.he Continental Navy was established during the American Revolutionary War in 1775. The Continental navy had been essentally a Privateer force and never intended as a permanet organization.