United states navy Sentence Examples

He was brought up in the merchant service, and entered the United States navy as a lieutenant in 1798.

A United States navy yard, officially known as the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is on an island of the Piscataqua but within the township of Kittery, Maine.

The architects of the United States navy are sent here for instruction in their most advanced courses.

He entered the United States navy in 1812, and was actively employed till the beginning of the Civil War.

Bath has a good harbour and its principal industry is the building of ships, both of wood and of iron and steel; several vessels of the United States navy have been built here.

He entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1818, and became a lieutenant in 1826.

Many types of distilling plant are in use in addition to those mentioned above, for example the Rayner, Kirkaldy, Merlees, Normand; the United States navy has adopted a form designed by the Bureau of Engineering.

It is an important highway of commerce, especially for the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News, and is the chief rendezvous of the United States navy.

He had a high reputation in the United States navy for practical seamanship. He died at Philadelphia on the 13th of February 1843.

It is doubtful if, without the experience of this secretaryship, he could have successfully originated and carried out the plan of sending the United States navy around the world in 1907.

The successful and dramatic voyage of the American fleet around the world, undertaken in spite of predictions of disaster made by naval experts in Europe and the United States, was conceived and inspired by him, and this single feat would alone justify the statement that no American public man had done so much since the Civil War as he to strengthen the physical power and the moral character of the United States navy.

During these campaigns the United States navy had not been idle.

The exciting and profitable occupation of blockade-running led to countless small fights off the various harbours, and sometimes the United States navy had to fight a more serious action when some new "rebel" ironclad emerged from her harbour, inlet or sound.

When the United States navy was organized in 1798 he was included in the corps of naval officers, and appointed to the schooner "Retaliation."

The United States navy paid great attention to its gunnery, which the British navy, misled by its easy victories over the French, had greatly neglected.

He became a midshipman in the United States navy in 1829, and was in the coast survey in 1836-1842.

In the southern part of the city is a United States navy yard and station, officially the Norfolk Yard (the second largest in the country), of about 450 acres, with three immense dry docks, machine shops, warehouses, travelling and water cranes, a training station, torpedoboat headquarters, a powder plant (20 acres), a naval magazine, a naval hospital and the distribution headquarters of the United State Marine Corps.

He entered the United States navy in 1826, and saw some service in the Civil War in command of the South Atlantic blockading squadron.

It was used in the Civil War, and for several years afterwards in the United States navy.

Such are Pioneer Hall, the home of the Society of California Pioneers (1850), endowed by James Lick; Portsmouth Square, where the flag of the United States was raised on the 8th of July 1846, and where the Committee of Vigilance executed criminals in 1851 and 1856; Union Square, a fashionable shopping centre, decorated with a column raised in honour of the achievements of the United States Navy in the Spanish-American War of 1898;; also the United States Branch Mint, associated with memories of the early mining days (the present mint dates only from 1874).

His entire career in the United States Navy was at its peak but he could not, like any family man, go against his own family in a war.

Bar Harbor is usually a summer rendezvous of the North Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy.

The island, part of the Channel Islands off California's coast, is a United States Navy base.

For 180 years the uniforms closely resembled those of the United States Navy.

It is through this service that members of the United States Navy can purchase all of their uniform needs.