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John P. Roach, U.S. Navy submarine commander [4] Walter Bedell Smith Chief of Staff to Dwight D. Eisenhower in WWII, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Director of Central Intelligence "Betty" – Harold Stark, U.S. Navy admiral (after a mistaken pledge) [4] "Big Al, (The Sailor's Pal)" – Al Konetzni, American vice admiral [15]
"Aggie on Horseback" – HMS Weston; [4] nickname named for Agnes Weston, a temperance and sailor's advocate; "on horseback" is a jocular mistranslation of Latin "super-mare" ("on the sea"), "mare" being equated with a female horse "'A Gin Court" – HMS Agincourt; Battleship seized from Turkey in 1914; because of its luxurious Turkish outfit
Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, DSO, DSC (15 October 1905 – 23 March 1943) was a Royal Navy submariner and a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Decorated Dutch naval officer and submarine commander during World War II. Later served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Netherlands: Yes 1915 2016 Kapahulehua, Kawika. Hawaiian sailor who was the first to captain the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa from Hawaii to Tahiti using only traditional navigation techniques. United States ...
John Agar – actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache) Ralph Ahn – actor and brother of fellow sailor Susan Ahn Cuddy (The Golden Girls, New Girl) Susan Ahn – first female gunnery officer and Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy, sister of actor and fellow sailor Ralph Ahn; Eddie Albert – Oscar-nominated actor (Roman Holiday)
SOQ – Sailor of the Quarter; SOY – Sailor of the Year; SPAWAR – Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command; SPAWARSYSCEN – Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center; SR – Seaman Recruit [1] SRB – Selective Reenlistment Bonus; SRW – Shutdown Roving Watch; SS – Submarine Specialist; SS – Submarine, class/type of ship
John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) is an English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan. Lord Toranaga ... is adapted from James Clavell’s novel of the same name – a runaway bestseller when it ...
USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797–1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829).