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John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-born American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War.
To transport gunpowder and arms, Robert Morris of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety chartered the newly built brig, also called brigantine, Nancy and her captain, Hugh Montgomery on March 1, 1776. [9] [10] On March 14, 1776, John Barry was commissioned captain of the fourteen-gun Lexington in the Continental Navy. [11]
Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart.He was appointed midshipman on April 23, 1797, and served in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France on the frigate United States with Decatur and Stewart, a ship commanded by Captain John Barry.
Isaac Hull – captain of USS Constitution; Lyndon B. Johnson – former U.S. President; worked as a bomb observer with the Army during World War II; John Paul Jones – commander during the American Revolutionary War, considered to be the founder of the American naval tradition; Charles Keating – naval aviator, real estate developer and banker
The statue of John Barry commemorates the "Father of the United States Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745-1806). Barry was an Irish-born sailor who joined the American colonists in fighting for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Barry became the first commission by the Second Continental Congress.
John Cary "Red" Morgan (August 24, 1914 – January 17, 1991) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot in World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during a 1943 bombing run over Germany, which also inspired the character of 2nd Lieutenant Jesse Bishop in the novel and film Twelve O'Clock High.
John Masefield's 1920 poem Captain Stratton's Fancy (later set to music by Peter Warlock) identifies Capt. Stratton as "the old bold mate of Henry Morgan". John Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), is about Henry Morgan's life. Book 1 of Nicholas Monsarrat's The Master Mariner has anti-hero Matthew Lawe sailing with Morgan as Mate.
The Captain Morgan Trophy [1] was a knock-out trophy introduced by the Rugby League supposedly intended to fill an "Imaginary" void in the season's fixture list. The competition was introduced for the season 1973–1974, but failed to catch the imagination of the public, or the clubs themselves and only took place for the one single season.