( Navy Commander John Rodgers had set a non-stop seaplane record from San Francisco in 1925 and had fallen short of the mark for Honolulu, landing off the Island of Kauai ), The famous Dole flight also took place in 1927, with Art Goebel and Lt. W. V. Davis, USN, the only fliers completing the flight to Hawaii.

* August 31 – U. S. Navy Commander John Rodgers and his crew take off from San Francisco, California in a PN-9 flying boat in an attempt to make the first transpacific flight from North America to the Hawaiian Islands.

Commander Rodgers ' first war assignment was to go with Commodore Louis M. Goldsborough to Gosport Navy Yard on April 20, 1861, where with other officers he was to remove Naval vessels and assets so they could not be used by the Confederates.

Commodore Goldsborough made the decision to destroy the yard, and Commander Rodgers and Army Captain of Engineers Horatio G. Wright were given the job of destroying the drydock.

Commander Rodgers was then sent to the Western Rivers, where he organized the Western Flotilla and supervised construction of the City Class Gunboats, the first ironclad gunboats on the western rivers.

Rodgers ' father was Commodore John Rodgers ( 1772 – 1838 ), and he was the grandfather of pioneering Naval aviator Commander John Rodgers ( 1881 – 1926 ).

: On May 15 five warships of the James River Flotilla under USN Commander John Rodgers steamed up the James River where they were hit by accurate fire from Drewry's Bluff.

Kilpatrick asked the American naval commander Commander John Rodgers to defend the port and attack the Spanish fleet.

Rodgers was reappointed Chief Intelligence Officer and returned to ONI in April 1906, succeeding Commander Seaton Schroeder, and was promoted to rear admiral on 4 July 1908.

The team leader (# 1 ) is the Commanding Officer and is always a Navy Commander, who may be promoted to Captain mid-tour if approved for Captain by the selection board.

As a result Beatty was promoted to Captain on 9 November 1900, only two years after his promotion to Commander and aged only 29 rather than the average age of 43.

Kuti Axis ( I ): Shree Krishna Shah was the Commander and Kaji Ranajit Pandey, Sardar Parath Bhandari, Captain Harsa Panta, Captain Naharsingh Basnyat and Captain Shiva Narayan Khatri were the subordinate commanders under him.

Captain Kathryn Janeway, the commanding officer of Voyager, offered the Val Jean crew a chance to serve on her ship, and appointed Chakotay as her first officer with the provisional rank of Lieutenant Commander ( in episode " Caretaker ").

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

In addition to being the communications officer, she acted as the " Captain's Woman " ( a combination yeoman / concubine ) of Captain Maximillian Forrest and then Commander Jonathan Archer after Archer took control of the ISS Enterprise.

Rickover had been promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January 1942, and in late June of that year had been made a Temporary Captain.

Classes started at the Navy Pier Secondary School on 5 June 1944 ; Captain Edwin A. Wolleson was the Commanding Officer, and Commander Charles C. Caveny served as the Educational Officer.

* Captain Corcoran, Commander of H. M. S.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

The senior staff of Voyager include Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), who commands the ship ; Commander ( field commission ) Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), her first officer, who joined from the Maquis ; Lt. Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) ( later rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander ), the Security / Tactical officer ; Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ), the Operations Officer ; Lt JG ( junior grade ) ( field commission ) B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), Chief Engineer ; Lt. JG ( falling to ensign as a result of demotion but later rising in rank to full lieutenant ) Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), Helm Officer ; as well as several noncommissioned personnel, the Emergency Medical Hologram ( Robert Picardo ) as the Chief Medical Officer, Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) as the ship's cook and later Voyager's ambassador, Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) as the EMH's Medical Assistant, and Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), who plays several roles, generally in Astrometrics or Engineering.

For the first expedition, Bering was rewarded with money, prestige, and a promotion to the noble rank of Captain Commander.

The soldiers of the 69th, with an alacrity which will ever do them credit, and Lieutenant Pearson of the same regiment, were almost the foremost on this service – the first man who jumped into the enemy's mizen chains was Commander Berry, late my First Lieutenant ( Captain Miller was in the very act of going also, but I directed him to remain ); he was supported from our sprit sail yard, which hooked in the mizen rigging.

A fire of pistols, or muskets, opening from the stern gallery of the San Josef, I directed the soldiers to fire into her stern ; and calling to Captain Miller, ordered him to send more men into the San Nicolas ; and directed my people to board the first-rate, which was done in an instant, Commander Berry assisting me into the main chains.

Casey Ryback ( Steven Seagal ), a Chief Petty Officer assigned as a cook, is preparing meals in celebration of the birthday of Captain Adams ( Patrick O ' Neal ), against the orders of Commander Krill ( Gary Busey ), who is having food and entertainment brought by helicopter.

* Captain / Commander Janartis from the Gallifrey spin-off audio series

* Captain / Commander Raldeth from The Sirens of Time, The Apocalypse Element and Gallifrey: Appropriation

* Star Trek: Nemesis ( 2002 ) – Captain / Commander William T. Riker

After a few years teaching cadets, Tuvok was briefly assigned to the USS Billings under Commander Kathryn Janeway, until both Janeway and Tuvok were assigned to the USS Wyoming and then the Intrepid-class starship USS Voyager, as Captain ( Janeway ) and Security & Tactical Officer ( Tuvok ).

The Coast Guard, through its Southcoast Commander, Captain Ray Nash, determined in October 2007 that the LNG facility proposed for Weaver's Cove not be constructed, citing problems with navigating large tankers through and around the Brightman Street Bridge.

In the second phase, Commander of the Department of the Pacific, General Newman S. Clarke, sent a force of soldiers under command of Colonel George Wright to deal with a Confederated Tribes from Washington and Idaho, in what is known as the Spokane-Coeur d ' Alene-Paloos War.

Lieutenant Commander Frank Hawks flew a Northrop Gamma, powered by a Wright Whirlwind engine, from Los Angeles, California to FBF, in 13: 26: 15 hours, establishing a new West-East non-stop record.

St. Albans graduates include former Vice President Al Gore, former U. S. Senator Evan Bayh, U. S. Senator Michael Bennet, U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Seattle Mariners pitcher Danny Hultzen, former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., former Governor of Connecticut John Davis Lodge, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins and Space Shuttle Commander Frederick " Rick " Hauck, former, NFL All-Pro and Baltimore Raven Jonathan Ogden, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright, journalists David Ignatius, David Plotz, Ian Urbina, former Washington Post publisher and CEO, and current CSPAN executive Bo Jones, former Washington Post chairman Donald Graham, and Fox News host Brit Hume.

At 23: 15, with the range, Commander William M. Cole, commander of Wright's destroyer group and captain of Fletcher, radioed Wright for permission to fire torpedoes.

Admiral Carleton H. Wright, Commander, 12th Naval District, spoke of the unfortunate deaths and the need to keep the base operating during a time of war.

Lieutenant Tobin ( no relation to Commander Joseph R. Tobin ) related that 87 of his men initially refused to work but that number was reduced to 22 after Admiral Wright talked about the firing squad.

* June 1941, Wing Commander P M W Wright

Wing Commander ' Wilbur ' Wright opened a flying school at Hooton, and later a gliding club was operated from the northern end of the airfield.

An official report was made about the incident by Captain, C. D. Douglas, Commander of Fort Wright:

Others such as Elwin Wright, who until 1937 was secretary of the Anglo-German Fellowship called for the shooting of Jews whilst Commander E. H. Cole condemned the House of Commons as being full of " bastardised Jewish swine ".

Initially the SB200 built for the UK was only available with Wright Commander bodywork, but from 2006, it has been available with Plaxton Centro ( the first of these examples went to Fishwick ) or Wright Pulsar ( successor of the Wright Commander ) bodywork.

Among the victims were Brigadier General George Wright, the Union Commander of the Department of the Pacific ; Dr. Anson G. Henry, Surveyor General of the Washington Territory, who was also Abraham Lincoln ’ s physician and closest friend ; James Nisbet, a well-known publisher, who wrote a love note and his will while awaiting his death ; and Roseanna Keenan, a colorful San Francisco madam, who was traveling with seven “ soiled doves ”.