His The Naval War of 1812 ( 1882 ) established his professional reputation as a serious historian ; he wrote numerous books on hunting, the outdoors, and current political issues, as well as frontier history.

* Dr Ronald Avery, economic journalist and Naval historian

* William J. Morgan ( historian ) ( 1917 – 2003 ), Senior Historian at the U. S. Naval Historical Center and editor of Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve ( July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976 ) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable.

The result of Morison's proposal was the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, published in 15 volumes between 1947 – 1962, documenting everything from strategy and tactics to technology and the exploits of individuals — a work which British military historian Sir John Keegan has called the best to come out of that conflict.

The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962.

Bellingshausen's diary, his report to the Russian Naval Minister on 21 July 1821 and other documents, available in the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in Saint Petersburg, Russia, were carefully compared with the log-books of other claimants by the British polar historian A. G. E. Jones in his 1982 study Antarctica Observed.

The Two Ocean War by U. S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, is a short version of his multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.

Naval historian Jørgen Barfod explains that the battle was fought " in a disorganized manner from beginning to end " since Tromp had given the order for each commander to attack the enemy ship closest to him.

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Henry M. Dater, a historian on the staff of the U. S. Antarctic Projects Officer and the U. S. Naval Support Force Antarctica.

He was also a prominent naval historian, who for many years oversaw the Navy Department's historical office, now named the Naval Historical Center.

Sir Michael Eliot Howard, ( born 29 November 1922 ) is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.

His paternal grandfather, Samuel Eliot Morison, was a distinguished naval historian, a Rear Admiral in the Naval Reserve and Harvard University professor.

Naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan described the British loss as " the most disastrous ... that the British Navy had encountered since Beachy Head, in 1690.

Under Admiral John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Jellicoe was made Director of Naval Ordnance in 1905.

* John Brown & Company, a shipbuilding company based in Clydebank, Scotland that was part-owner of Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

** John C. Waldron, United States Naval aviator and commander of Torpedo Squadron 8, killed at the Battle of Midway ( b. 1900 )

* May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr., is arrested by the FBI for passing classified Naval communications to the Soviet Union.

* " The Ups and Downs of Electric Boat " John D. Alden, United States Naval Institute, Proceedings Magazine, July 1, 1999, p. 64.

Additionally, Vice Admiral Henry C. Mustin's sons, Captain Lloyd M. Mustin II and Captain John Mustin both continue to serve in the Naval Reserves following an initial tour of active service.

Captain John Mustin, a 1990 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, returned to active duty service as the Commanding Officer of Inshore Boat Unit 22, deployed to Kuwait, from 2004-2005.

At the time, his son, Admiral Sir Caspar John was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958, where he was first in his class, and among his fellow graduates were Bruce McCandless II who graduated second and Senator John McCain.

* The Queen Adelaide Almshouses, also known as the King William Naval Asylum, St. John ’ s Road, founded 1847 and built in 1848 to designs by Philip Hardwick at the request and expense of Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV, to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers.

Naval hero John Paul Jones boarded at the Captain Gregory Purcell house, which now bears Jones's name and serves as the Portsmouth Historical Society Museum.

* Sir John Clerk of Eldin ( 1728 – 1812 ) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics ; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell

A close bond, however, exists between Alexei and his bodyguard / protector, the Russian Naval Sailor Nagorny ( John Hallam ).

In athletics, Mahopac boasts strong legacies in wrestling ( John Degl 1991 NYS Champion & Joe Mazzurco 2000 NYS Champion & Anthony Esposito 2011 State Championship Wrestling Coach ) basketball, softball, volleyball, gymnastics, field hockey, baseball ( Dave Fleming 1987 MHS Graduate & former pitcher for the Seattle Mariners ), football ( the Russo Brothers ) track & field ( Nick Lakis 1968 MHS graduate and former mile record holder at U. S. Naval Academy ), and lacrosse.

Since 1918, Dahlgren has been the site of a U. S. Naval base named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren.

Despite a hard-fought battle throughout the Mid-1990s by local politicians to have the decommissioned and mothballed USS Missouri, already in the Bremerton Navy Yard, stay in Bremerton as a museum ship and tourist attraction, Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton, awarded the ship to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, HI in 1998.

* Vice Admiral John W. Greenslade ( Class of 1895 )-Vice Admiral & U. S. Commander of the Pacific-Southern Naval Coastal Frontier during World War II

* John Stevens ( admiral ) ( born 1927 ), Australian Deputy Chief of Naval Staff ( 1979 – 1981 )

* Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth ( 1747 – 1817 ), accomplished Royal Naval officer who served under Nelson.

In the first, on December 3, Macheteros opened fire on a bus carrying sailors to Naval Security Group Activity Sabana Seca, killing CTO1 John R. Ball and RM3 Emil E. White, as well as wounding nine others.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

The program was led by David Peck Todd with the military assistance of Admiral Edward W. Eberle ( Chief of Naval Operations ), with William F. Friedman ( chief cryptographer of the US Army ), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press P. 127 .</</ ref > The kinds of ships depicted in Ancient Greek models can be classified broadly as small craft, merchant vessels, and warships .< ref > Johnston, P. F.

Bermuda has of private paved roads ; of public paved roads ; of historic, mostly unpaved railroad trail, used in parts as a scenic trail ; two marine ports ( Hamilton and St. George's ), and one airport, the L. F. Wade International Airport, located at the former U. S. Naval Air Station.

" The minutes of the AAAS meeting reveal that because of the universality of this " view on the subject, it was suggested whether the states of Christendom might not be induced to cooperate with their Navies in the undertaking ; at least so far as to cause abstracts of their log-books and sea journals to be furnished to Matthew F. Maury, USN, at the Naval Observatory at Washington.

* Henry Fairfax ( Royal Navy officer ), British Admiral and Naval Commander K. C. B., F. R. G. S.,

* January 22 – An F / A-18 Hornet makes a fully automated landing, its autopilot linked to a ground radar at Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland.

The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company independently developed its designs into the small Model " F ", the larger Model " K " ( several of which were sold to the Russian Naval Air Service ), and the Model " C " for the U. S. Navy.

After its capture by Naval and Marine forces, the island hosted a fleet of PT boats for a year which included John F. Kennedy's PT-109, as well as other ancillary facilities.

* Leonard F. Guttridge, Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole ( Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986 ) ISBN 0-87021-330-X.

* Trimble, William F. Wings for the Navy: A History of the Naval Aircraft Factory, 1917-1956.

* Trimble, William F. " The Naval Aircraft Factory, the American Aviation Industry, and Government Competition, 1919-1928.

* Strike Fighter Squadron 137 ( VFA-137 ) is a United States Navy F / A-18E Super Hornet strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California

Commander Theodore F. Jewell was Superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory from January 1893 to February 1896.

* The United States Naval Gun Factory by Commander Theodore F. Jewell, Harper's Magazine, Vol.

Raised in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, Frick graduated from Pine-Richland High School in 1982, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1986, was commissioned as a United States Navy officer, and trained as a F / A-18 fighter pilot.

In 1983 he was selected for F / A-18 conversion training, and served as an F / A-18 Fighter Weapons and Air Combat Maneuvering Instructor with VFA-125, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California.

In 1957, George F. Bond began the Genesis project at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory proving that humans could in fact withstand prolonged exposure to different breathing gases and increased environmental pressures.

A few weeks later, Staubach started again in the famed Army – Navy game, which featured president John F. Kennedy ( himself a former Naval officer ), who just 37 days earlier had negotiated the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, performing the coin toss.

A tour in the Naval Air Test Center's Carrier Systems Branch and F / A-18A Program Office of the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate followed Test Pilot School graduation.

Coincidental to the future air force base, the F. 3 was a descendant of the Felixstowe F. 2a and Curtiss H-12 flying boats employed by the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force in the First World War as interceptors against German Zeppelin and Schuette-Lanz airships.

* April 1 – U. S. Coast Guard Third Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone begins flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.