page_title: James Lawrence
section_title: Namesakes and honors
hierarchical_section_title: James Lawrence / Namesakes and honors
caption_attribution_description: 080220-N-XXXXX-025 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb 20, 2008) At a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launches from the U.S. Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacting a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph.
context_page_description: James Lawrence was an American naval officer. During the War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his last words or "dying command" "Don't give up the ship!", which is still a popular naval battle cry, and which was invoked by Oliver Hazard Perry's personal battle flag, adopted to commemorate his dead friend.
context_section_description: He was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal and the Thanks of Congress.
  Many places are named for Captain Lawrence, including:
  Lawrence, Indiana
  Lawrence County, Alabama
  Lawrence County, Arkansas
  Lawrence County, Illinois
  Lawrence County, Indiana
  Lawrence County, Kentucky
  Lawrence County, Missouri
  Lawrence County, Mississippi
  Lawrence County, Ohio
  Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Indirectly, as this county is named in honor of the sacrifices of the USS Lawrence (1813), a namesake of Captain Lawrence.)
  Lawrence County, Tennessee
  Lawrence Park Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
  Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
  Lawrenceville, Georgia
  Lawrenceville, Illinois
  Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Also home to the prestigious Lawrenceville School
  Lawrenceville, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh
  Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, a borough in Tioga County.
  Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana and the municipality of Lawrence, Indiana contained therein.
  Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey and its Lawrenceville neighborhood.
  Captain Lawrence Drive in South Salem, NY, from which the Captain Lawrence Brewing Company of nearby Pleasantville takes its name.
  Lawrence Street in Montgomery, Alabama is named in honor of Lawrence. It runs parallel to streets named after other Barbary War/War of 1812 naval heroes: McDonough Street, named for Thomas Macdonough; Perry Street, named for Oliver Hazard Perry; Decatur Street, named for Stephen Decatur; Hull Street, named for Isaac Hull and Bainbridge Street, named in honor of William Bainbridge.
  Lawrence Avenue in Norman, Oklahoma is named in honor of Lawrence.
  His birthplace of Burlington, New Jersey, has a Captain James Lawrence Elementary School.
  In addition, the U.S. Navy has had named five ships USS Lawrence.
  The first USS Lawrence (1813) was a brig which acted as then-Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie until she was destroyed in that action.
  The second USS Lawrence (1843) was also a brig, serving from 1843–1846.
  The third USS Lawrence (DD-8) was a 400-ton destroyer, commissioned in 1903 and serving until 1920.
  The fourth USS Lawrence (DD-250) was a Clemson-class destroyer, serving from 1921 to 1945
  The fifth USS Lawrence (DDG-4) was a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer. Commissioned in 1962, she served until 1994. This ship was christened by Mrs. Dorothy Redmond Hubbard, Capt. Lawrence's great-great-grand-daughter, who at the time was his oldest living descendant.
caption: Lawrence's last words are memorialized on the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Lake Erie
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