Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Amurka ta yi ikirarin Oktoba 13, 1775 a matsayin ranar da aka kafa ta a hukumance, lokacin da Majalisa ta Kasashen Duniya ta Biyu ta zartar da wani kuduri da ya kafa Rundunar Sojan Ruwa na Kasashen Duniya. Tare da ƙarshen Yakin Juyin Juya Halin Amurka, an rushe Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa na Continental. A karkashin Shugaba George Washington na farko, barazanar jiragen ruwa na Amurka da 'yan fashin teku na Barbary daga jihohi hudu na Arewacin Afirka a cikin Bahar Rum sun haifar da Dokar Naval na 1794, wanda ya haifar da dindindin na Amurka. An ba da izini na farko na frigates shida a matsayin wani ɓangare na Dokar. A cikin shekaru 20 masu zuwa, Sojojin Ruwa sun yi yaƙi da Sojojin Ruwa na Jamhuriyar Faransa a cikin Yakin Yakin (1798 <unk> 99), Barbary jihohi a Farko
da Yaƙe-yaƙe na Barbary na biyu, da kuma Birtaniya a cikin Yaƙin 1812. Bayan Yaƙin 1812, Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa ta Amurka ta kasance cikin zaman lafiya har zuwa Yaƙin Mexico da Amurka a 1846, kuma ta yi aiki don yaƙar fashin teku a cikin Bahar Rum da Bahar Caribbean, da kuma yaƙi da cinikin bayi a gabar tekun Afirka ta Yamma. A 1845, an kafa Kwalejin Naval a tsohuwar Fort Severn a Annapolis, Maryland ta Chesapeake Bay. A shekara ta 1861, yakin basasa na Amurka ya fara kuma sojojin Amurka sun yi yaƙi da ƙananan sojojin Amurka da jiragen ruwa da kuma sababbin jiragen ruwa na juyin juya hali yayin da suke samar da wani shinge wanda ya rufe jiragen ruwa na bakin teku na 'yan ƙasa. Bayan yakin basasa, yawancin jirgi sun kasance a cikin ajiya, kuma ta 1878, Navy ta kasance kawai mutane 6,000.