• The "Prayer of a Midshipman" was written by William Nathaniel Thomas in 1938. Thomas (1892-1979) was the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy....
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    assistant chaplain and then as command chaplain. He wrote the Prayer of the Midshipman and the Dedication in Memorial Hall at the Naval Academy. "Will"...
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  • boys' training establishment HMS Ganges. In 1940 Reeman was appointed Midshipman, at the age of 16. His initial service was in destroyers on convoy duty...
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    Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), The Key (1958) 4 Margaret Lockwood Midshipman Easy (1935), Who's Your Lady Friend? (1937), Bank Holiday (1938), A Girl...
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    the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean...
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    Herndon Crockett. Herndon was appointed midshipman on 1 November 1828. He was promoted to passed midshipman in 1834 and lieutenant in 1841. He cruised...
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  • M.S. Defiant 1962 The sadistic 1st Lieutenant orders the caning of a midshipman and later a shipmate receives 24 lashes with the cat o'nine tails. Lawrence...
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    George's time as Duke of York, writing: "He may be all right as a young midshipman and a wise old king, but when he was Duke of York ... he did nothing at...
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    fully recovered from his serious accident and could endure the rigors of midshipman training.) Their graduating class included Dennis C. Blair, Michael Mullen...
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  • commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight...
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    distinguished Chaplains ever to serve in the U.S. Navy." He wrote the Prayer of the Midshipman and the Dedication in Memorial Hall at the Naval Academy. USS Rentz...
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    State University. Brown enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1946, becoming a midshipman. Brown earned his pilot wings on October 21, 1948, amid a flurry of press...
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    the natives' language. Nelson's assistant William Brown was a former midshipman who had seen naval action against the French. Banks also helped to secure...
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    Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund. On 1 April 1924 he was promoted to senior midshipman (Oberfähnrich zur See) and sent to officer training at the Naval Academy...
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  • Perfect" 2001 JAG Midshipman Phillip Spencer Episode: "Mutiny" 2001 Going Back Tex TV film 2002 MDs EMT #2 Episode: "Wing and a Prayer" 2003 Love Comes...
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    at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and the master of the Midshipman Choir. Train began the practice of concluding Divine Services with the...
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    withdrawn from his naval course before his formal graduation, served as midshipman for three months aboard the battleship Hindustan, then immediately entered...
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    June 1872; they had two daughters and one son. Acting midshipman: 30 September 1856 Midshipman: 9 June 1859 Lieutenant: 31 August 1861 Lieutenant commander:...
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    and clever. A shipmate described him as "easily the most interesting midshipman I ever met". When addressing someone he could become carried away with...
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  • Harrison Page as Rear Admiral Stiles Morris, USN Michael Bellisario as Midshipman Michael Roberts, USN Anne-Marie Johnson as Hon. Roberta Latham, Congresswoman...
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    Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a 15-year-old crew member who was the first to sight...
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    rape of a 19-year-old girl. In June 2022, Hope Hicks, formerly known as "Midshipman X" filed a lawsuit against Maersk, alleging that the company failed to...
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    commanded the vessel. Shortly after reporting aboard, Nelson was appointed a midshipman, and began officer training. Early in his service, Nelson discovered that...
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  • gunnery technician before being accepted into the Naval Academy as a midshipman. They had a complex relationship with their father, "Big Bud" Sr. (Jeff...
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    moment, and that he had no hand in the uprising itself. On the other hand, Midshipman John Hallett reported that Bligh, with a bayonet at his breast and his...
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    a three-year world tour aboard HMS Bacchante. Albert Victor was rated midshipman on his sixteenth birthday. They toured the British Empire, accompanied...
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    Significantly better prepared, Menzies, Lieutenant Joseph Baker and Midshipman George McKenzie of Discovery, and a servant (most likely Jonathan Ewins...
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    to visit friends, Newton was pressed into the Royal Navy. He became a midshipman aboard HMS Harwich. At one point Newton tried to desert and was punished...
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    months later in 1822, he left West Point and accepted an appointment as a midshipman in the United States Navy. Between 1822 and 1843, Foote saw service in...
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    theoretical and practical test needed to be promoted from "midshipman without exam" to "examined midshipman". That year saw the incidents that resulted in the...
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