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Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman

Vice Admiral Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman was an Indian naval officer and in command of the Indian Navy from 1962 to 1966 as the 4th Chief of Naval Staff.

CSS Patrick Henry

Commander John Randolph Tucker, who commanded the newly organized James River Squadron, directed that Yorktown be converted into a gunboat and renamed Patrick Henry in honor of that revolutionary patriot.

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Brady's first major book, For Love of Country, whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour, was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy.

Edo period

The cause for the end of this period is controversial but is recounted as the forcing of Japan's opening to the world by Commodore Matthew Perry of the US Navy, whose armada (known by Japanese as "the black ships") fired weapons from Edo Bay.

Eld Peak

Two conical peaks were sighted in the area from the Peacock on January 16, 1840 by Passed Midshipmen Henry Eld and William Reynolds of the United States Exploring Expedition (USEE) (1838–42).

Ironclad Board

The Board consisted of three senior naval officers: Commodore Hiram Paulding, Commodore Joseph Smith, and Commander Charles Henry Davis

Jorge Sampaio

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

Piers Island

The island is named for Henry Piers (d. 1902), a Royal Navy surgeon who served on the HMS Satellite and HMS Investigator and at the Pacific Station (Esquimalt), later Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.

Tsuboi Kōzō

That same year he received training on board the flagship USS Colorado of the American Asiatic Squadron and was sponsored by Admiral John Rodgers to attend Columbia University from April 1872 until July 1874.

William Bell Clark

He wrote several biographies of American naval captains, including John Barry (1745-1803), Nicholas Biddle (naval officer), Lambert Wickes, and John Young (naval officer) during the American Revolution, which were published by prominent academic presses, such as the Yale University Press and Louisiana State University Press.

Yankee Buccaneer

In the early 19th century, Commander David Porter (Jeff Chandler) and his men receive orders via Lt. David Farragut (Scott Brady) that they are to fight piracy.


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Aleksandr Nemits

Aleksandr Vasilivich Nemits, (Нёмитц, Александр Васильевич) was a Naval Officer of Russian Empire, Ukrainian State and Soviet Union.

Alfred W. Johnson

Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, a US naval officer in the Spanish-American War and World War I

Ali Rıza Seyfi

He attended the Kasımpaşa Naval Elementary School and served at various posts in Basra, with the fleet in the Dardanelles, at the Naval Science Commission and at Tripoli as a naval officer after 1892.

Alonzo B. Cornell

After the adjournment of the Senate in July 1878, Hayes suspended both the collector (Chester A. Arthur) and the naval officer, and their successors were finally confirmed.

Aubrey–Maturin series

The series focuses on two main characters, naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin, and the ongoing plot is structured around Aubrey's ascent from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Augustus Baldwin

Augustus Warren Baldwin (1776–1866), a naval officer and political figure in Upper Canada

Dunsterville

Edward Dunsterville (1796–1873), British naval officer and hydrographer

Edward Hay

Edward Hay Drummond Hay (1815–1884), British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator

Ehrensvärd

Carl August Ehrensvärd (1745–1800), Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect

Francesco Mimbelli

Francesco Mimbelli (16 April 1903 Livorno – 26 January 1978 in Rome) was an Italian Naval officer who fought in World War II.

Frank M. Faircloth

Frank M. Faircloth (1820—January 6, 1900) was an American naval officer who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War.

George Bowyer

Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet (1739–1799), British naval officer and MP for Queenborough

George Mayer

George E. Mayer (born 1952), United States Naval officer and aviator

Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing

After an initial career as a naval officer and helicopter pilot, Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing entered Turbomeca (Snecma group) based in Pau in 1994 as Sales Manager and, later, Marketing Director.

Hae-il

Nam Hae-il (born 1948), South Korean naval officer, 25th Chief of Naval Operations

Henri Dupuy de Lôme

He was the son of a naval officer and was born in Ploemeur near Lorient, Brittany, in western France.

Hugh Frazer

Hugh Carroll Frazer (1891–1975), United States naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient

INS Magdala

The ship was a part of the 20th Mine Counter Measure Squadron (MCMS) and was placed under the Naval Officer-in-Charge (Kerala & Lakshadweep) at Kochi.

Jean-François Lemaresquier

Jean-François Lemaresquier (Heugueville-sur-Sienne, 4 March 1767 - Battle of Tamatave, 18 May 1811) was a French naval officer.

Jean-Jacques de Marguerie

Jean-Jacques de Marguerie (Mondeville, 12 April 1742 – Grenada, 1779) was a French naval officer and mathematician.

John Pennington

John Penington, or Pennington, (c.1584–1646) English naval officer

John Slidell

John Slidell was a brother of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a naval officer who commanded the USS Somers on which a unique event occurred in 1842 off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa.

John Wesley Wright

That alleged—the news of Mack's surrender at Ulm — is absurd, especially to a naval officer who had also the news of Trafalgar.

John Yuen

Rear Admiral Jonathan A. Yuen is an American naval officer and commander of Naval Supply Global Logistics Support.

Joseph Emilio Abaya

Prior to representing the first district of Cavite to the House of Representatives in 2004, he first served in the Armed Forces of the Philippines as a cadet (1984–1988) and as a naval officer of the Philippine Navy (1988–2004).

Kenneth J. Summers

Kenneth J. Summers (born July 1944) is a retired Canadian naval officer, best known for being the commander of the Canadian contingent of the Gulf War coalition.

Kiem Do

Kiem's wartime memoirs, co-authored with Julie Kane, was published in May 1998 and entitled Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War.

Kullmann

Olaf Kullmann (1892–1942), Norwegian naval officer and peace activist

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre

In 1819, Edinburgh born naval officer Norwich Duff (1792–1862) recorded a note on La Ferté at a time when, it would appear, the Bourbon Restoration had led to a sudden halt in the Napoleonic road building boom.

Lester L. Westling, Jr.

In the article, "Prayers That Hurt," Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff writes of his time as a Naval officer in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, crediting Westling as the chaplain who inspired him to "grow as a Jew," and then make the decision to become a rabbi.

Ludwig von Henk

Ludwig von Henk (March 4, 1820, Anklam – October 17, 1894) was a German naval officer, who distinguished himself in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire.

Michael McConnell

John Michael McConnell (born 1943), American naval officer and Director of National Intelligence of the United States

New York's 29th congressional district election, 2006

In early 2005, former U.S. Naval officer Eric J.J. Massa, a long-time friend of 2004 presidential candidate General Wesley Clark filed to run as the Democratic candidate.

Philip Lee

Captain Philip Lee, Sr. (1681–1744), Naval officer of North Potomac, Justice, Sheriff, member of Upper House, and King's Council

Phippsfjellet

The mountain is named after British Arctic explorer and naval officer Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave.

Pic-Pic

In 1916 Commandant Yves le Prieur, a naval officer, used a Pic-Pic to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the Le Prieur rocket.

Samuel Gurney Cresswell

He was technically the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage.

Shotley, Suffolk

In Arthur Ransome's children's novels of the late 1930s We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea and Secret Water, the character Commander Walker is a naval officer stationed at Shotley.

Siöblad

Carl Georg Siöblad (1683-1754), Swedish naval officer and Governor of Malmö

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet (England, 1785 – 31 August 1814, Fairlee, Maryland) was an English naval officer, the son of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron.

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.

Terrance Christopher

Terrance Christopher, OMM, LVO, CD is a retired Canadian Naval Officer and former Usher of the Black Rod for the Senate of Canada, the most senior protocol office in Parliament.

Thomas Patterson

Thomas H. Patterson (1820–1889), U.S. naval officer during the American Civil War

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (19 February 1775 – 10 March 1804) was a British peer, naval officer and wastrel, best known for bedevilling George Vancouver during and after the latter's great voyage of exploration.

Westville, New Jersey

Stephen Decatur (1779–1820), naval officer notable for his heroism in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War and in the War of 1812.

William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven

Naval Officer, died aboard HMS Spiteful and was buried in The British Cemetery, Montevideo.

Zhubov scale

The Zhubov scale is a way of reporting polar sea ice coverage, it was developed in the former USSR by Russian naval officer N. N. Zhubov (1895 - 1960).