Word: midshipman
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...status of 180 Midshipmen at the Navy Supply Corps School was clarified this week by Lieutenant Commander Ernest C. Collins administrative head of the Midshipman School...
...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
...urchin at St. Peter's School, Broadstairs, he got only four shillings a week pocket money. He managed all right by selling his schoolmates his mail from home. First as midshipman, later as Lieut. Windsor, he served eight years in the Royal Navy. When one of his ships, H.M.S. Durban, put into San Diego, Calif. and Lieut. Windsor frolicked for two unauthorized days with Lili Damita and her film friends, he atoned for the next 30 days, confined to his cabin. His health, never so vigorous as his spirit, waned in the Navy and in 1929, when...
Once Adolf Hitler was believed leary of onetime Midshipman Juan of the British navy. But Juan jilted his English sweetheart to marry, in Rome in 1935, his Bourbon-Sicily cousin, Princess Maria Mercedes. There he lived under the fascist wing until World War II sent him discreetly to Switzerland...
Young Louis was a cadet on two of Admiral Beatty's flagships (Lion, Queen Elizabeth), If his royal blood did him no harm, it did not noticeably speed his promotion: a midshipman by 1916, he was a lowly sublieutenant when the war ended...