Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vincent, Who was he?
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I BUILT A SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
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I looked for you but I got this far and no further sorry\nhttp://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/LSM19.htm
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Sorry about that last answer. Nice answer on my Stalingrad question, by the way.\n HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier in the world. The design was based on that of a cruiser and the ship was intended for a similar scouting role. She was built by Armstrong Whitworth, laid down 15 January 1918 and launched 11 September 1919. She was subsequently commissioned in July 1923. After a distinguished wartime career she was sunk 9 April 1942. \n\n\nHMS Hermes was designed as a carrier from the start, although not with the benefit of operational experience. World War I slowed construction and although the ship was launched in 1919 she was not commissioned for another 5 years. \n  \n  At the commencement of war in September 1939, the British Home Fleet deployed aircraft carriers to seek out and destroy German submarines: HMS Ark Royal off the northwestern approaches to the British Isles, HMS Courageous and HMS Hermes off the southwestern approaches. Courageous was sunk on 17 September 1939 by a torpedo and Hermes returned to port. She maintained her brief service in Home waters for a while after the loss of both Courageous and Glorious. \n\n \nGun crew loading 5.5 inch guns, which in the Royal Navy are only found on Furious and Hermes \nwhere they are the main armament,  and on the battle cruiser Hood\n\nWith a small aircraft complement, light protection and anti-aircraft armament, limited high-speed endurance, and stability problems caused by the large starboard island, with fuel having to be carefully distributed to balance the ship, Hermes was deemed unsuitable for operations in European waters, and was consequently employed in trade protection in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans until March 1942.  As the French had no aircraft carriers Hermes was then posted to Brest to operate with the French navy out of Dakar, French West Africa for approximately six months. When Vichy France took over, the Admiralty ordered Hermes out of Dakar to patrol the immediate area to keep a close watch on Vichy French naval movements. Her only fleet operation was on 8 July 1940, when her Swordfish aircraft attacked the Vichy French battleship Richelieu at Dakar and scored one torpedo hit. \n\nShortly afterwards during the middle watch she was in collision with the AMC Corfu; lead ship of a convoy which came out of Freetown, which resulted in her steaming to Simonstown in South Africa for a more permanent repair. Following which she was deployed with our aircraft as shadow ship to prevent the pocket battleship Graf Spee from escaping to the South Atlantic. She then went on patrol on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea and finally to the Persian Gulf. Some of her crew members and ratings from other ships, were landed in Basra to take over the running of the port and man commandeered craft to patrol the river Shat-el-Arab, between Iraq and Iran. After about eight months, troops from the Indian and Ghurka regiments invaded Iran. They then had to take over the naval base at Khoramshah and to repair the sabotaged machinery. \n\n \nHMS Hermes sinking following the attack by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon, 9 April 1942\n\nHMS Hermes while heading in convoy from Trincomali to the Maldive Islands, was attacked by the Japanese First Air Fleet's 50 Aichi D3Al aircraft (soon to be named VAL by the Allies) from the Japanese carriers Akagai (flagship), Hiryu, and Soryu, which sank her and also sank a destroyer, corvette and two tankers, southeast of Trincomalee, Ceylon on 9 April 1942. Akagi had been the flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941. \n\nThe Japanese Fleet went on to attack Darwin on its return to Japan. Akagi and Hiryu were later scuttled and sunk by US dive bombers and Soryu hit by three bombs and exploded on 5 June 1942 in the Battle of Midway. \n\nThe wreck of the Hermes is located in the Indian Ocean off Batticaloa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). \n\n \nHiryu burning after Battle of Midway: \nFor more information and phot
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There are two under construction, the first being the last of the Nimitz-class carriers, the George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). She is scheduled to be christened in March, 2006, delivered in March 2008, and commissioned in 2009. The Nimitz-class carrier program has been eliminated, to be replaced by the CVN-21 program, a highly advanced supercarrier. The first, designated CVN-78 and as yet unnamed. A ceremonial steel cut was made at the new plant to build all of the CVN-21 class carriers. Construction is expected to begin in 2007, though it depends on funding from Congress. It would then be commissioned in 2015. Possible names are USS-America, USS-Lexington, and USS-Enterprise. The last option seems likely since the current Enterprise is set to decommission the same time as the CVN-78's commissioning.
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CAP was the Civil Air Patrol and worked just off the East Coast in WW2.  They carried smoke bombs to mark the sightings and they sank one or two subs while directing military fire on a score more and found 173 enemy U-boats in all until the coastal sub threat was withdrawn in August, 1943.\n\n"CAP Coastal Patrol flew 24 million miles, found 173 subs, attacked 57, hit 10-12 and sank one if not two. By August 31, 1943, it was time for Coastal Patrol to stand down.  A German commander later confirmed that coastal U-boat operations were withdrawn 'because of those damned little red and yellow airplanes."  Again keep in mind, the CAP was kept secret from the public and the Germans did not know the aircraft were flown by unarmed, civilian pilots.  An aircraft is a submarines worst nightmare as a submarine near the surface is easily spotted from the air."  (1)
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Look up David McCampbell, he even has a US Destroyer named after him, the USS McCampbell.
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Two United States Navy ships have borne the name Langley, after the American scientific pioneer Samuel Langley.\n\nThe first Langley (CV-1) was the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese. \nThe second Langley (CVL-27) was a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951.
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Yes - he was an American physician and he invented the first Woman's vibr@tor in 1869.  It was powered by steam.
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I think Churchill said it best. The traditions of the Royal Navy is rum,sodomy, and the lash.
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There was an article about the Admiral Nelson in US News and World Report a few months ago.  He really did lose an arm and won several naval victories.  Great leader.
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Richard Nixon served in the United States Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
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As a member of his immediate family, you are entitled to his complete service record. You can get this through the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. I have linked their web site below. As for a list of all the names aboard a specific ship - unless you can find a veterans organization involving that ship (many many ships have these types of organizations for shipmates to stay in contact after their service) - you may be out of luck finding it. I wish you the best - Good Luck.
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was the first programmer of the Mark I Calculator and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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HIM who? Captian Chaos?
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Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller \n(he was a Colonel at the time, of course)\n\nFull article here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller
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I remember seeing steam locomotives in use as a young child, \nI steered a WWII era US navy Destroyer on a full power run at 17, I am training to be a railroad brakeman and....play bluegrass and folk mandolin.\n\nI know what it is like to experience a full gale off Cape Hattaras in a destroyer.  I also worked as a deckhand on the Lower Mississippi on a towboat in 1974.\n\nMy grandparents on my mother's side had a haunted house and\nI was married in full SCUBA gear under 60 feet of water on a coral reef - in Cozumel. \n\nI also got horribly air sick after doing barrel rolls, Immelmans, Cuban 8s and wingovers in an AT-6 WWII era advanced trainer.\n\nI have no sense of direction and can get lost in my own home town.