Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vessel was manned by about six officers and 116 men. The loss of life approximated 23 men; the injured numbered 15, although about 100 were suffering from bruises and lacerations incurred in making shore. About 100 men were taken off by other ships standing by. The destroyers were in command of Captain Edward H. Watson. Rear Admiral Kittelle arrived on the scene and took charge...
...Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Captain Martin E. Trench, visited Camden, N. J. There officials of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation met him on the bridge of a new battleship, formally turned the ship over to the Government. Captain Trench signed a receipt and read an order from the Secretary of the Navy commissioning the Colorado as a battleship of the U. S. Navy. The colors were hoisted and Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap took command. A new fighter had been added to the U. S. fleet...
These plangent protests seem ill considered. It is probable that any parents who are so shiftless as to stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...
...made a Vice Admiral, later becoming Vice Minister of Marine, and in the Great War he was promoted to the command of the First Fleet with the rank of full Admiral. After the Armistice he became Minister of Marine and won his diplomatic spurs at the Washington Conference and his political spurs at home after he had become Prime Minister...
...London. One of the honor men of the West Point class of '88, he fought in the Philippines as Captain of the Astor Battery. In 1904 he was officer-observer of the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1912 did service in Mexico. During the World War he was in command of the A E. F. artillery and was appointed Chief of His first wife died...