Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Whiting is best known for "Eternal Father, Strong to Save". [3] It is used by the Royal Navy for church services and was adopted by the United States Naval Academy, and so is often called "The Navy Hymn". [4] He also published two poetry collections: Rural Thoughts (1851) [3] Edgar Thorpe, or the Warfare of Life (1867) [2]
Eternal Father, Strong to Save" is a British hymn traditionally associated with seafarers, particularly in the maritime armed services. Written in 1860, its author, William Whiting , was inspired by the dangers of the sea described in Psalm 107 .
A 614-page book entitled USS Dorado (SS-248): On Eternal Patrol was published by Douglas E. Campbell in November 2011. Before she was lost, the American painter Thomas Hart Benton sailed aboard Dorado on her shakedown cruise , using that experience as the basis for his paintings Score Another for the Subs, In Slumber Deep , and The ...
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry", which became the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".
On Eternal Patrol website; NavSource Naval History: Submarine Photo Archive website; U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II : hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 894 ... June 11, 1981.
The phrase "...veteran of a Thousand Psychic Wars" is from the Hawkwind song "Standing at the Edge," from the album Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975), which also dealt with the myth of the Eternal Champion and contained lyrics written by Moorcock. [2] Prior to that, the term "psychic war" appears in the poem "Far Arden" by Jim Morrison of The ...
"USS Trigger Still on Patrol" plaque at the Independence Seaport Museum. Trigger (with new skipper Commander David R. Connole) stood out to sea on 11 March to begin her 12th war patrol and headed for the Nansei Shoto area. On 18 March, she attacked a convoy west of the islands, sinking the cargo ship Tsukushi Maru No.3 and damaging another.