His father, a captain in the Royal Navy, commanded the 60-gun HMS Pembroke, with James Cook as his sailing master, during the 1758 siege of Louisbourg.

Not satisfied with the tubular magazine of the Jarmann rifle and his earlier Krag-Petersson rifle ( adopted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1876 ), he enlisted the help of master gunsmith Erik Jørgensen.

Commissioned ensign on 19 April 1869, and promoted to master on 12 July 1870, he resigned from the Navy on 18 November 1871, to study law in his brother's office.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

The master clock was checked daily for drift using a VLF receiver tuned to a US Navy low frequency VLF station.

* The TV series Monk ( starring Tony Shalhoub ) featured several locked room puzzles, such as a Navy lieutenant shot dead in his cabin on a submarine ( Mr. Monk Is Underwater ), when the gunshot was heard by witnesses outside, or a monkey that supposedly shot its master when he barricaded himself in his panic room during a burglary ( Mr. Monk and the Panic Room ).

Adams served in the Royal Navy under Sir Francis Drake and saw naval service against the Spanish Armada in 1588 as master of the Richarde Dyffylde, a resupply ship.

The Royal Navy shortened " master and commander " to " commander " in 1794 ; however, the term " master and commander " remained ( unofficially ) in common parlance for several years .< ref name =" NHC ">

Later, Jefferies ' work on the bridge of the Enterprise influenced the design of the U. S. Navy master communications center at NAS San Diego.

* Captain Glessing, former ship captain of Royal Navy and harbor master.

Prior to March 3, 1883, this rank was known in the Navy as master.

* Alton Augustus Adams – first African-American band master for the United States Navy

Selected for the Navy ’ s Advanced Science Program, he received a master ’ s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology the next year.

Senior chief petty officer is the eighth enlisted rank in the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard, just above chief petty officer and below master chief petty officer, and is a noncommissioned officer.

The title of petty officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard has three separate " classes " ( 3rd class through 1st class ) and three senior grades ( chief petty officer, senior chief petty officer, master chief petty officer ).

The rank of master seaman is unique because it was created only for the Canadian Navy.

Brunel's SS Great Britain, although a merchant ship, appears to have worn ( and still wears, in dry dock ) the White Ensign, apparently because its first master ( an ex-Royal Navy man ) brought it with him.

Edward Bransfield ( 1785 – 1852 ) was a master of the British Royal Navy and considered the discoverer of the continent of Antarctica.

When a Spanish force attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a number of other convict-slaves ( including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, the one-eyed giant Edward Wolverstone, former gentleman Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy petty officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle ), captures the Spaniards ' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates / buccaneers in the Caribbean, hated and feared by the Spanish.

In 1965 he entered Purdue University, and in January 1970, received his Officer's commission in the Navy and bachelor and master of science degrees.

In conclusion to his 1839 Introduction to the work of reference, Pedro de Angelis noted that the report of a mercantile master returning to Montevideo from the Falklands came to the attention of the Spanish Minister, who consulted with Don Jorge Juan, head of the Department of the Navy.

He failed to graduate from his Jesuit high school but became a master electrician after training at a US Navy school in Mississippi.

In the Royal Canadian Navy, the appointment of coxswain ( or capitaine d ' armes in French ) is given to the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a ship, the equivalent to a command master chief petty officer in the US Navy.

** Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of a lost H-bomb which results in the amputation of his leg.

* 2006 August 1: Equipped with an ADS 2000 atmospheric suit a US Navy diver establishes a new depth record: 2, 000 feet deep ( 609 metres ).

Émile Gagnan ( November 1900 – 1979 ) was a French engineer and co-inventor ( together with French Navy diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau ) of the diving regulator ( a. k. a. demand-valve ) used for the first Scuba equipment (" Aqua-Lung ") in 1943.

Approximately a dozen operators visited Naval Amphibious Base Coronado to receive combat diver, maritime operations, and tactics ( such as Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure ) training from the United States Navy SEALs.

They then force the plane to fly to Algiers in Algeria, release 20 more passengers, then return to Beirut, where they beat and murder United States Navy diver Robert Stethem, remove seven American passengers with what they believe are " Jewish-sounding " names to be held hostage in Beirut, and are joined by nearly a dozen more gunmen.

), nicknamed Buster, British Royal Navy and MI6 diver

During the loading process a barrel fell into the water and had to be retrieved by a Navy diver.

Here, if the mask floods, the diver can breathe again before clearing the mask, and many Royal Navy and frogman's rebreathers have this mask arrangement ; but the full-face mask plus mouthpiece combination acts like a strapped-in gag making clear talking difficult but not impossible.

File: US Navy 080610-N-8298P-052 Members of the U. S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Boston conduct a security dive during a Frontier Sentinel exercise. jpg | Military diver with full face mask with through-water comms.

Scully-Power is also a qualified Navy diver.

Before going to America, he was the inaugural Head of the Royal Australian Navy ’ s Oceanographic Group, deploying to sea on 26 cruises and qualifying as a naval ship's diver.

A United States Navy Diver | US Navy diver at work.

During this stop, the hijackers identified a U. S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem, among the passengers.

** a Sea Vixen Royal Navy aircraft-a diver training carcass between Ferrybridge and the helicopter base

He qualified as a Navy deep-sea diver and was awarded the Commendation Medal and Submarine Combat Insignia with stars.

This hijacking resulted in the death of United States Navy diver Robert Stethem.

This attack resulted in the death of United States Navy diver Robert Stethem.

* Carl Brashear ( 1931 – 2006 ), the first African-American to become a US Navy diver

Brashear was also the first African-American U. S. Navy Master Diver and the first amputee diver to be certified or re-certified as a U. S. Navy diver.