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HMS Kent ( 1762 ) HMS " Kent " was a 74 - gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 23 March 1762 at Deptford Dockyard . In 1774 , a chest containing perhaps as much as 400 lb ( 181 . 4 kg ) of gunpowder exploded during saluting , killing eleven and injuring dozens more , and causing the marine drummer sitting on the chest to be blown overboard . The marine reportedly suffered no injuries as a result . She was sold out of the service in 1784 .
USS Otter ( DE - 210 ) USS " Otter " ( DE - 210 ) , a of the United States Navy , was named in honor of Lieutenant Bethel V . Otter ( 1914 - 1942 ) , who was killed in action on Corregidor on 6 May 1942 . The second " Otter " was laid down on 26 July 1943 by the Charleston Navy Yard ; launched on 23 October 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . William M . Otter , the mother of Lieutenant Otter ; commissioned on 21 February 1944 , Lieutenant Commander D . M . Kerr , United States Naval Reserve , in command . Following a Bermuda shakedown , " Otter " joined the Atlantic Fleet and escorted two carriers to Casablanca , then , for the remainder of the year , she helped protect convoys shuttling from the United States to various Mediterranean ports . Throughout these operations not a single ship was lost . In December 1944 , " Otter " and three of her sister ships formed a task group to hunt and destroy German U - boat s in the middle and north Atlantic . On 16 January 1945 , without assistance from aircraft , the group located and sank . " Otter " , after playing a crucial role in the depth charge attack , proudly displayed a submarine silhouette on her bridge . In April , this task group joined a large task force of destroyer escorts and escort carrier s patrolling the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic and searching for submarines . During these operations , destroyer escort was torpedoed and sunk , and while other ships of the group engaged and sank , " Otter " assisted in the rescue of survivors . Upon the end of the European war , " Otter " was one of the ships assigned to accept the surrender of German submarines . She intercepted a U - boat east of Newfoundland , put a boarding party on board , and escorted the submarine , the second to surrender , over a thousand miles to the East Coast of the United States . " Otter " then began to refit for the Pacific War . The end of hostilities changed plans and " Otter " was assigned to the Naval Submarine Base New London , Connecticut , to assist in submarine training . By directive dated January 1947 , " Otter " was placed out of commission , in reserve , attached to the United States Atlantic Reserve Fleet and berthed in Florida . Awards . " Otter " received one battle star for service in World War II .
Charlot Kaské Charlot Kaské ( fl . 1763 – 1765 ) was a Shawnee war chief during Pontiac ' s War . Kaské ' s personal details were unusual for a Shawnee chief : he was a Catholic , his father was German , and his wife was an English captive brought up among the Shawnees . Kaské initially participated in the war , which was an effort to prevent the British from occupying the Illinois Country , as an ally of Pontiac . As the war progressed and went badly for the American Indians , Pontiac began to negotiate with the British . Kaské remained firmly anti - British , however , and eventually left British territory by crossing the Mississippi River with other French and Indian refugees rather than accept British rule .
Peisander ( general ) Peisander ( ) was a Spartan general during the Corinthian War . In 395 BC , he was placed in command of the Spartan fleet in the Aegean by his half - brother , the king Agesilaus II . Peisander was a relatively inexperienced general , and in the first action his fleet saw , at the Battle of Cnidus , the Spartan fleet was decisively defeated . Peisander died fighting aboard his ship .
Amompharetus Amompharetus , son of Poliadas , was a Spartan company commander at the Battle of Plataea . The name means " " of irreproachable valor " " . Before the battle , both the Greek and Persian armies camped in front of each other for 10 days on the plain of Plateaea , with only small raids on each side . However , the Persians diverted the Greek water supply and cut off their supply of food , so the Greeks were forced to find a new camp . The plan was for the main contingent of Greeks to set out first during the night , with the Spartans guarding the rear . After the main contingent of Greeks had left the encampment , and it was time for the Spartans to set off to take up the rear , Amompharetus refused to leave the field without a fight , insisting that the unalterable law of Sparta forbade retreat from the battlefield . It took some convincing and rank - pulling on behalf of the Spartan regent , Pausanias , and a not inconsiderable amount of time , to compel Amompharetus and his unit to follow the maneuvering of the rest of the army . On discovering the Greeks had abandoned their positions and their Spartan allies , the leader of the Persian forces , Mardonius , launched an attack in haste . The Persian offensive was in disarray before battle was joined , and Mardonius soon lay dead and the Persian army crushed . There is another mention of Amompharetus ( in Plutarch ' s Solon ) as one of the five Spartans arbitrating the dispute over the island of Salamis between the citizens of Athens and Megara . The verdict was in favor of Athens .
USS Kauffman ( FFG - 59 ) USS " Kauffman " ( FFG - 59 ) , an " Oliver Hazard Perry " - class frigate , is a ship of the United States Navy named for Vice Admiral James L . Kauffman ( 1887 – 1963 ) and his son , Rear Admiral Draper L . Kauffman ( 1911 – 1979 ) , both experts in sub - surface naval missions . " Kauffman " was laid down on 8 April 1985 by the Bath Iron Works , Bath , Maine ; launched on 29 March 1986 ; sponsored by Mrs . Elizabeth Kauffman Bush the daughter of Vice Admiral James L . Kauffman ; and commissioned on 28 February 1987 at Bath , Maine , Commander John C . Dranchak , USN in command . As of 2012 , " Kauffman " is captained by Commander William K . Shafley , III , USN , homeported at NS Norfolk , Virginia , and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 22 . Milestones . Note : the milestones are extracted from the official command histories and no other sources . The set of command histories available is not complete , resulting in the partial record following . Commanding officers . Note : unless otherwise referenced , information has been sourced from the official command histories .
97th Flying Training Squadron The 97th Flying Training Squadron ( 97 FTS ) is part of the 340th Flying Training Group and is the Reserve associate to the 80th Flying Training Wing based at Sheppard Air Force Base , Texas . It operates T - 6A Texan II and T - 38 Talon aircraft conducting flight training . History . The 97th flew combat in the European Theater of Operations and the Mediterranean Theater of Operations between 25 December 1942 and 3 May 1945 . It flew fighter escort and air defense from , 1947 – 1949 and air defense from , 1951 - 1957 . The 97th has trained USAF pilots to fly supersonic jet aircraft from , 1973 – 1993 and since 1998 .
Robert Parker Parrott Robert Parker Parrott ( October 5 , 1804 – December 24 , 1877 ) was an American soldier and inventor of military ordnance . Biography . Born in Lee , New Hampshire , he was the son of John Fabyan Parrott . He graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy , third of the Class of 1824 . Parrott was assigned to the Third Regiment of Artillery as a second lieutenant . He remained at West Point as an instructor until 1829 , then had garrison duty and served as a staff officer in operations against the Creek Indians early in 1836 before moving to Washington , D . C . in July as Captain of Ordnance . He resigned from the army four months later to become the superintendent the West Point Iron and Cannon Foundry in Cold Spring , New York , with which he would be associated for the remainder of his life . In 1839 he married Mary Kemble , niece of Gouverneur Kemble , founder of the ironworks . While employed at West Point , he and his brother Peter Parrott also assumed management of the operation of the Kemble - owned furnaces in Orange County , New York . The brothers purchased a 1 / 3 interest in Greenwood Furnace from a minority holder in 1837 , and bought it entirely from the Kembles in 1839 . In 1860 , he produced the Parrott rifle gun , an innovative rifled cannon which was manufactured in several sizes . The largest , the 300 - pounder version weighed 26 , 000 lb ( 11 , 800 kg ) , and its projectile weighed 300 lb ( 140 kg ) . Parrott guns were extensively employed during the American Civil War by both the Union and Confederate armies . In 1867 , Parrott ended his superintendency of the West Point Foundry to concentrate on the ironworks in Orange County . However , he continued to experiment with artillery shells and fuses at West Point until his death at Cold Spring at the age of 73 . The Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance memorialized Parrott : " The staunch friend , the Christian gentleman , the soul of honor , not one of all the virtues that keep green the memory of the dead can be denied him ; but above all it can be written on his tomb — he was a good man . "
Gal - class submarine The Type 540 Gal Class submarine is a slightly modified variant of the German HDW Type 206 submarine class ( which includes the distinctive dome , or bulge , in the front of the boat ) , modified for Israeli requirements . The Gal class submarines were built to Israeli specifications as the Vickers shipyards Type 540 at Barrow in Furness in the UK rather than Germany for political reasons . " Gal " ( גל - Hebrew for " wave " ) was the name of the son of Abraham ( Ivan ) Dror , 3rd commander of the squadron and head of the project . The " Gal " class of submarines were the first Israeli Navy submarines built to Israeli Navy specifications . They supplant previous generations of submarines employed from 1958 by the Israeli navy which were refurbished and upgraded boats of the British S class and T class ; submarines whose hull designs dated back to the decade before World War II . Since entering service in the late - 1970s , these small but agile and sophisticated submarines were continuously upgraded with newer systems to maintain their technological edge . They were somewhat unique in that all boats of the class were at one point equipped with six tube retractable Blowpipe surface to air missile launchers controlled from inside the boat , though these were later removed . The Israeli newspaper Maariv reports that " Gal " class submarines were active in the 1982 Lebanon War . During 1983 torpedo tube launched Sub - Harpoon anti - ship missiles and associated fire control systems were added to all boats of the " Gal " class . NT 37E torpedoes were acquired to replace the older Mk 37 models in 1987 - 88 . All extensively overhauled in 1994 - 95 , including improved sensors and fire control system . In the late 1990s , the Gal submarines were replaced with the new , much larger Dolphin class submarine s . The Gal boats were decommissioned in the early 2000s . One was scrapped and two were sent to HDW in Germany in hopes of finding them a foreign buyer . When none was found , in October 2007 " Gal " was shipped back to Haifa , Israel and is now on display in the Israeli Naval Museum . Some changes were made in the submarine to make it accessible to visitors , such as an entrance cut into her side . Part of these changes were made with the financial help of the German Federal government . Ships . The first ship commissioned was Gal in December 1976 . It was damaged by grounding on her delivery voyage but was repaired . " Gal " is now on display at the Israeli Naval museum in Haifa . The next two Gal class submarines were named after their retired Israeli submarine predecessors of the retired British S class who themselves were named after two sea monster s mentioned in Isaiah 51 : 9 : " Awake , awake , put on strength , O arm of the Lord ; awake as in the ancient days , In the generation of old ! Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab ( Rahav ) , and wounded the dragon ? ( in Hebrew , Tanin ) " These names will also be placed on two boats of the " Dolphin " class .
Telesphorus ( general ) Telesphorus ( in Greek Tελεσφoρoς ; lived 4th century BC ) was a general in the service of Antigonus Monophthalmus , the king of Asia , who was sent by him in 313 BC , with a fleet of fifty ships and a considerable army to the Peloponnese , to oppose the forces of Polyperchon and Cassander . His arms were at first very successful ; he drove out the Macedonian garrisons from all the cities of the peninsula , except Sicyon and Corinth , which , were held by Polyperchon himself ; but having joined with Medius in an attempt to relieve Oreus , to which Cassander had laid siege , they were defeated , with the loss of several ships . The following summer ( 312 BC ) Antigonus having conferred the chief direction of the war in the Peloponnese upon his nephew Ptolemy , Telesphorus was so indignant that he shook off his allegiance , and having induced some of his soldiers to follow him , established himself in Elis on his own account , and even plundered the sacred treasures at Olympia . He was , however , soon after , induced to submit to Ptolemy . Notes .
Asoka Jayawardena Major General ( Rtd ) Asoka K . J . Jayawardena RWP , RSP , VSV , USP , was a career army officer and Provincial Governor of the Governor of North Eastern Province . Military career . Jayawardena was Overall Operations Commander ( OOC ) of the Sri Lanka Army . In 1997 he was succeeded by Lt . Gen . Srilal Weerasooriya . Jayawardena also served as Security Forces Commander in Jaffna . Political career . Retiring from the Sri Lanka Army in 1998 , Jayawardena was appointed as Governor of North Eastern Province . His predecessor Gamini Fonseka resigned from the office due to a difference of opinion with the President at the time . He is known to be a close confidante of the President Chandrika Kumaratunga , and he is believed to be one of her principal military advisors . Jayawardena was the first governor of the province to visit the Jaffna peninsula after the establishment of the North Eastern Provincial Council . Awards . His awards and decorations include the Medals ; Rana Wickrama Padakkama ( RWP ) , Rana Sura Padakkama ( RSP ) , Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya ( VSV ) and Uttama Seva Padakkama ( USP ) . Sri Lankan awards . In Order of Precedence
Robert V . Richardson Robert Vinkler Richardson ( November 4 , 1820 – January 6 , 1870 ) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Early life . Richardson was born in Granville County , North Carolina , on November 4 , 1820 . His family moved to Hardeman County , Tennessee , when Richardson was a child . Richardson was admitted to the bar and moved to Memphis , Tennessee , in 1847 to practice there . He made business connections with Nathan Bedford Forrest and Gideon J . Pillow . Civil War . During the early part of the War , Richardson served under Pillow and recruited the 12th Tennessee Cavalry ( also known as the 1st Tennessee Partisan Rangers ) and was elected that unit ' s colonel . Richardson engaged in the Battle of Shiloh and the Siege of Corinth . He was attached to Forrest ' s command in the fall of 1863 . On December 3 , he was appointed brigadier general ; however , after being confirmed his nomination was returned by the Confederate Senate at the request of President Jefferson Davis on February 9 , 1864 . From then to the remainder of the War , his regiment was attached to James R . Chalmers ' command . A communication from Richardson dated October 28 , 1863 at Water Valley , MS indicated the difficult living conditions experienced during the War : “ For God and the country ’ s sake , make your fair promising but never complying Quartermaster send me skillets , ovens , pots , or anything else that will bake bread or fry meat . I want clothing , shoes and blankets for my naked and freezing men . . . . I cannot fight any more until I get something to cook in . ” Post - War and murder . After the War , Richardson travelled abroad and lived overseas . He returned to Memphis and worked in levee and railroad construction with Forrest . After stopping at a tavern in Clarkton , Missouri , on January 5 , 1870 , he was shot by an unknown assailant who fired a shotgun at him from behind a wagon in the tavern yard . He died the next day and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis .
Ruth Alice Erickson Captain Ruth Alice Erickson was the Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps , serving in that position from 1962 to 1966 . As a LT in the Navy Nurse Corps , she witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Hawaii on 7 December 1941 . Early life . Ruth Alice Erickson was born in 1913 in Virginia , Minnesota . She graduated from Methodist Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester , Minnesota in 1934 . Navy Nurse Corps career . Ruth Erickson joined the Navy Nurse Corps in July 1936 . During her career she served on the hospital ship " Relief " , witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , and served on the hospital ship " Haven " while bringing home prisoners of war from Japan in 1945 . Erickson moved through positions of increasing responsibility , including nursing supervisor , senior nurse and assistant chief of nursing services at various naval hospitals , Nurse Corps representative in the 12th Naval District and Military Sea Transport Service in Seattle , WA , and personnel officer for the Nurse Corps at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington , D . C . . She served as chief nurse at three major naval hospitals and , on 30 April 1962 became the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps . She retired from the U . S . Navy on 1 May 1966 . Education . Erickson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Education from Indiana University in 1953 .
William A . Sackett William Augustus Sackett ( November 18 , 1811 - September 6 , 1895 ) was a U . S . Representative from New York . Biography . Born in Aurelius , near Auburn , New York , Sackett attended private schools and Aurora Academy . He moved to Seneca Falls , New York , in 1831 . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice at Seneca Falls . Sackett was elected as a Whig to the Thirty - first and Thirty - second Congresses ( March 4 , 1849 – March 3 , 1853 ) . He resumed the practice of law at Seneca Falls , New York . He moved to Saratoga Springs in 1857 . During the American Civil War , he was colonel of the 9th New York Cavalry . Register in bankruptcy during the term of the 1867 bankruptcy law . He died at Saratoga Springs , New York , September 6 , 1895 . He was interred in Greenridge Cemetery .
Sibat A sibat is a staff or spear used as a weapon or tool by natives of the Philippines . It also called " bangkaw " , " sumbling " or " palupad " in the islands of Visayas and Mindanao . Sibat are typically made from rattan , either with a sharpened tip or a head made from metal . These heads may either be single - edged , double - edged or barbed . Styles vary according to function and origin . For example , a sibat designed for fishing may not be the same as those used for hunting wild game . The sibat is widely used in Filipino martial arts such as San Miguel Eskrima , Inayan Eskrima and Pekiti - Tirsia Kali . Techniques . Sibat can either be used hand - to - hand or thrown from a distance . Blunt portions of the weapon could be used to incapacitate at closer ranges . These attacks can be used in conjunction ; the shaft can be used to block an enemy ' s weapon and then followed with a thrust into the throat or stomach .
Fort Gorges Fort Gorges is a United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay , Maine . History . Following the War of 1812 , the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed that a fort be built on Hog Island Ledge , in Casco Bay at the entrance to the harbor at Portland , Maine . Named for the colonial proprietor of Maine , Sir Ferdinando Gorges , it was constructed to support existing forts , including Fort Preble in South Portland and Fort Scammel built on nearby House Island in 1808 . Congress , however , did not fund construction of Fort Gorges until 1857 . The walls of the fort were begun the next year , and when the American Civil War broke out in 1861 , work quickly advanced . The fort was designed by Colonel Reuben Staples Smart . The chief architect in charge of construction was Thomas Lincoln Casey , who later became Chief of Engineers . It is similar in size and construction to Fort Sumter , but is built of granite instead of brick . The fort was completed in 1865 as the war ended . Modern explosives made the fort obsolete by the time it was completed . A modernization plan was begun in 1869 , but funding was cut off in 1876 , with the third level of the fort still unfinished . During the modernization project , sod - covered sand was added to the top level of the fort to protect gun encasements and powder magazines from attacks . The Fort ' s armament consisted of thirty - four 10 - inch Rodman gun s mounted in the fort ' s casemates . In 1898 , all guns were removed from the fort except a large 10 - inch Parrott rifle which was emplaced on the top of the fort . The 10 - inch Parrott rifle still remains in place and is one of the largest surviving specimens of Civil War vintage artillery . The fort was last used by the Army during World War II , when it was used to store submarine mines . It was acquired by the city of Portland in 1960 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places . It is now open to the public as a park , and is accessible only by private boat . Visitors are recommended to carry a flashlight to enter the powder magazines . Accessing the island involves crossing areas with strong tidal currents and should thus be attempted only under the right conditions , by people with sufficient experience , using a proper boat . ( i . e . don ' t try it with a canoe . )
USRC Patrol ( 1905 ) USRC " Patrol , later USCGC " Patrol , was a harbor launch in service in the United States Revenue Cutter Service from 1905 to 1915 and in the United States Coast Guard in 1915 . She was the first vessel of the Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard to bear the name . She was built at Jersey City , Illinois , and was launched in 1899 . The Revenue Cutter Service acquired her on 2 June 1905 and employed her on anchorage duty at Chicago , Illinois , although she operated as far south at Hannibal , Missouri . When the Revenue Cutter Service and United States Lifesaving Service merged in 1915 to form the Coast Guard , " Patrol " became a part of the new service as USCGC " Patrol " . On 31 August 1915 , the Coast Guard transferred " Patrol " to the Illinois Naval Militia at Chicago .