The Congressional appropriations were small and the Navy had little need for the Yard, which was actually closed from 1898 to 1900 and the personnel reassigned.

A Navy court of inquiry was again convened, this time recommending that Halsey be reassigned, but Admiral Nimitz declined to abide by this recommendation, citing Halsey's prior service record.

* In 1957, the maritime base in Simonstown was reassigned from the command of the British Royal Navy to that of the South African government.

* The Hero of Submarine D-2 1916 — US Drama directed by Paul Scardon depicting Naval Academy official reassigned as submarine commander discovers Ruanian ( fictional for " German ") plot to destroy US Navy fleet ; AKA Colton, U. S. N.

In order to protect him against assassination, he was reassigned as commandant of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy.

The crew was discharged and reassigned, and Parker reported to the Washington Navy Yard for administrative duties.

On 17 July 1918 he was reassigned to the US Navy forces in Europe and reported to Submarine Chaser Detachment 3 at Queenstown, Ireland in August.

In 1840, he was reassigned to Washington for another two years as commissioner on the Navy Board.

After the 527th was reassigned, eight of the lowest-hour F-5E's were transferred to the U. S. Navy for TOPGUN / Aggressor training at NAS Miramar, California in July 1988.

With the Navy taking over the antisubmarine mission in mid-1943, the squadron returned to the United States via Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where unit personnel were reassigned to other units.

An honor guard accompanied the train ; this consisted of Union Army Major General David Hunter ; brevet Major General John G. Barnard ; Brigadier Generals Edward D. Townsend, Charles Thomas Campbell, Amos Beebe Eaton, John C. Caldwell, Alfred Terry, George D. Ramsey, and Daniel McCallum ; Union Navy Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis and Captain William Rogers Taylor ; and Marine Corps Major Thomas H. Field.

After serving his duty with the Navy until 1990, McCallum rejoined the Raiders.

* 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U. S. Navy warship, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

The PLA Navy was ranked in 1987 as the third largest navy in the world, although naval personnel had comprised only 12 percent of PLA strength.

In 1987 the Navy consisted ( as it does now ) of the naval headquarters in Beijing ; three fleet commands – the North Sea Fleet, based at Qingdao, Shandong ; the East Sea Fleet, based at Ningbo ; and the South Sea Fleet, based at Zhanjiang, Guangdong – and about 2, 000 ships.

As part of this program, two Royal Australian Navy advisers are statiomed in Vanuatu Australia to assist Vanuatu in maintaining and operating the RVS Tukoro, the Pacific class patrol boat donated to Vanuatu by Australia in 1987.

US Navy warships escort the tanker Gas King in 1987

From 1979 to 1987, a submarine, the USS Silversides, was docked at Navy Pier.

However, in the 1987 – 1988 academic year, the U. S. joint services began participation with three U. S. Air Force graduates ; officers from the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps followed in the next two years.

Although drafted in 1987, the Spurs would have to wait until the 1989 – 90 season to see Robinson actually play, due to a two-year commitment he had to serve with the United States Navy.

( Navy blue was added to the color palette in 1987 " to provide better visual contrast to publications, merchandise and athletic uniforms.

After high school he performed military service in the Royal Netherlands Navy from August 1985 to January 1987.

In 1987, a US Navy guided-missile frigate, the USS Stark, was hit by an Exocet anti-ship missile fired by an Iraqi Mirage F-1 fighter plane.

The Navy discarded Yavari but in 1987 charitable interests bought her and started restoring her.

Hence, 45 years after being founded by the U. S. Navy, its management team, led by Erich Burlefinger, purchased the division and in 1987 founded Burle Industries.

During medical school she did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit in March 1987.

Alexander's other television films include Arthur Miller's Playing for Time, co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, for which Alexander won another Emmy Award ; Malice in Wonderland ( as famed gossip-monger Hedda Hopper ); Blood & Orchids ; and In Love and War ( 1987 ) co-starring James Woods, which tells the story of James and Sybil Stockdale during Stockdale's eight years as a US Navy Commander and prisoner of war in Vietnam.

His mother, Yvonne Jean ( née Hickman ), and father, Eric Ernest Hitchens ( 1909 – 1987 ), met in Scotland while both were serving in the Royal Navy during World War II.

The Flight 655 incident was a year after the 17 March 1987, Iraqi Air Force attack on the U. S. Navy guided-missile frigate.

* William Davis ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1901 – 1987 ), British admiral

In 1987, Cockrell resigned from the Navy and joined the Aircraft Operations Division of Johnson Space Center as a research pilot.

* Ralph Waldo Christie ( 1893 – 1987 ), Navy Admiral involved with torpedo and submarine operations before and during World War II

* Admiral Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, 1984 – 1987.

Rosyth's dockyards became the very first in the Royal Navy to be privatised when a company named Babcock International acquired the site in 1987.

* Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History ( 1987 ) from the New York Council of the Navy League, in cooperation with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Theodore Roosevelt Association, for his book The United States Navy: 200 Years ( Henry Holt, 1986 ).

* Richard E. Luehrs Memorial Award for Navy Operational Flight Surgeon of the Year ( 1987 )

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

It was a home of the Royal Navy from the reign of Edward III and was twice surprised and sacked during the Hundred Years ' War, after which the mouth of the estuary was closed every night with a great chain.

Thereafter the Imperial German Navy ceased any serious attempts to engage the British fleet and remained at home as a ' fleet in being '.

During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.

Under long-standing bilateral agreements flowing from NATO membership, Italy hosts important U. S. military forces at Vicenza – home of 173d Airborne Brigade – and Livorno ( USA ); Aviano ( USAF ); and Sigonella, Nisida, and Gaeta – home port for the U. S. Navy Sixth Fleet.

This was not the immediate end of scurvy in the Navy, as lemon juice was at first in such short supply that it could only be used in home waters as a cure under the direction of the surgeons rather than issued routinely as a preventative.

The city is also home to the Republic of China Navy.

After Hubbard's father Harry rejoined the Navy, his posting aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1921 required the family to relocate to the ship's home ports, first San Diego, then Seattle.

His insistence during the expedition on Royal Navy formalities had made for uneasy relations with the merchant navy contingent, many of whom departed for home with the first relief ship in March 1903.

Navy blue remains the primary color on the home jersey, but the familiar lightning bolt was reverted to gold, and now has navy outlining and Collegiate ( powder ) blue interior trim.

There were several differences between the novel and the film, including the Red October traveling up the Chesapeake Bay and near Tom Clancy's Calvert County waterfront home, and the prominence of the Royal Navy, including HMS Invincible.

It is also the home base for Merlin Squadrons embarked upon Royal Navy warships, the Westland Sea King AEW variant helicopter, a Search And Rescue ( Sea King, again ) helicopter flight, and some BAe Hawk T. 1 trainer jets used for training purposes by the Royal Navy.

After graduating as an engineer for the Imperial Russian Navy, Zamyatin worked professionally at home and abroad.

* July 21 – HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.

* U. S. Navy Submarine Force Museum — Official home of USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 )

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

Ultimately a dispute arose between Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who favoured increased spending and a broad deployment, and the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John Fisher, who favoured efficiency savings, scrapping obsolete vessels, and a strategic realignment of the Royal Navy relying on torpedo craft for home defence backed by the new dreadnoughts.

The military port of Toulon is the major naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle and her battle group.

The city, formerly the home of the Russian-then Soviet-Black Sea Fleet, is now home to a Ukrainian naval base and a Russian naval base in facilities leased by the Russian Navy.

Steiger grew up with his alcoholic mother before running away from home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II, where he saw action on destroyers in the Pacific.

Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University andNaval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and a major United States Navy training center.

* Navy UDT-SEAL Museum ( Fort Pierce was the original home of the Navy SEALs )