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The Final Resting Place of John Paul Jones
January 26th, 1913 The body of John Paul Jones is interred at the U. S. Naval Academy. Almost a full century ago, the body of John Paul Jones, recently discovered in a Parisian cemetery, reached its...
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First Female Midshipmen Graduate from U. S. Naval Academy
May 28th, 1980 First women graduate from USNA In October, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a bill which included a mandate stating that the United States’ military academies were to begin admitting...
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The Navy Sails the Inland Seas
Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the formal opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway to seagoing ships. The Seaway is a 2,432 mile long international waterway consisting of a system of canals, dams, and...
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Anniversary of the Establishment of the Naval Academy
Fort Severn, 1845, as Naval School: (1) Officers' Quarters, (2) "The Abbey," (3) Mess hall, kitchen, and recitation hall, (4) "Apollo Row," (5) "Rowdy Row," (6) "Brandywine Cottage," (7) "Gas House,"...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: Granite, Old and New
The old NSS Annapolis, otherwise known as the Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter, at Greenbury Point on the Severn River to the West of Annapolis, is not a place where one might...
View ArticleKnox Lifetime Achievement Awards Honor Naval Institute Authors
Naval historians from around the world mustered last week in Annapolis for the U.S. Naval Academy’s biennial two-day, deep-immersion McMullen Naval History Symposium. During a banquet at the DoubleTree...
View Article“The Fastest Ship in the Navy”: The Strange Saga of the USS Reina Mercedes
On April 29, 1898, Almirante (Admiral) Pascual Cervera y Topete of the Spanish Navy steamed out of Cape Verde islands with a fleet of four armored cruisers and three destroyers. His destination: the...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: The Phantom (II) of the Naval Academy
On 28 June 1967 Commander (later Vice Admiral) William P. “Bill” Lawrence was the flying the lead plane of the flight of 36 aircraft from VF-143 of the USS Constellation. Theirs was an attack mission...
View Article‘Football over Baseball Was a No-Brainer’
An Interview with Joe Bellino Joe Bellino won the 1960 Heisman Trophy, becoming the first of only two U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen (Roger Staubach being the second, in 1963) to win the award. As the...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: The Saitō Pagoda
Just outside the west entrance to Luce Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy sits a stately thirteen-tiered stone pagoda. Though it is relatively unadorned by the standards of many monuments, if one looks...
View ArticleExcerpt from “The Black Midshipman at the Naval Academy”
For this week’s post, and in honor of Black History Month, the Naval History Blog offers a selection from a 1973 article in Proceedings by By Lieutenant Commander R. L. Field, U. S. Navy (Retired). In...
View ArticleThe Final Resting Place of John Paul Jones
January 26th, 1913 The body of John Paul Jones is interred at the U. S. Naval Academy. Almost a full century ago, the body of John Paul Jones, recently discovered in a Parisian cemetery, reached its...
View ArticleFirst Female Midshipmen Graduate from U. S. Naval Academy
May 28th, 1980 First women graduate from USNA In October, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a bill which included a mandate stating that the United States’ military academies were to begin admitting...
View ArticleThe Navy Sails the Inland Seas
Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the formal opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway to seagoing ships. The Seaway is a 2,432 mile long international waterway consisting of a system of canals, dams, and...
View ArticleAnniversary of the Establishment of the Naval Academy
The Naval Academy was established at Annapolis, Maryland on August 15, 1845, on the former site of Fort Severn. The following article was published in the October, 1935 issue of Proceedings, which was...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: Granite, Old and New
The old NSS Annapolis, otherwise known as the Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter, at Greenbury Point on the Severn River to the West of Annapolis, is not a place where one might...
View ArticleKnox Lifetime Achievement Awards Honor Naval Institute Authors
Naval historians from around the world mustered last week in Annapolis for the U.S. Naval Academy’s biennial two-day, deep-immersion McMullen Naval History Symposium. During a banquet at the DoubleTree...
View Article“The Fastest Ship in the Navy”: The Strange Saga of the USS Reina Mercedes
On April 29, 1898, Almirante (Admiral) Pascual Cervera y Topete of the Spanish Navy steamed out of Cape Verde islands with a fleet of four armored cruisers and three destroyers. His destination: the...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: The Phantom (II) of the Naval Academy
On 28 June 1967 Commander (later Vice Admiral) William P. “Bill” Lawrence was the flying the lead plane of the flight of 36 aircraft from VF-143 of the USS Constellation. Theirs was an attack mission...
View Article‘Football over Baseball Was a No-Brainer’
An Interview with Joe Bellino Joe Bellino won the 1960 Heisman Trophy, becoming the first of only two U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen (Roger Staubach being the second, in 1963) to win the award. As the...
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