We are missing a lot of names...Cabot as you say, Mugford, Glover, Manley, and of course USS Marblehead (what a great story of courage, perseverance and guts) (I come from Marblehead - but we used to have ships named after these people and places and for good reason), Franklin....etc Lots of old names that fell by the wayside.
just so ya know.....FIRST recruiting station I walked into was NAVY. (my dad being Merchant Marine and eight tenths of my life dealing with (ahem) "marine" things like boats 'n ships 'n shore stuff). Navy wanted too much from that young me at that moment, so Coast Guard came up next. That didn't go well either........so, next door in line was the Corps. They didn't ask questions I was unwilling to answer to at the time. so.....Semper Fi. (our official Day beats yers, so there!)
But, I never forget that my first purpose was NAVY, .....and we Marines would be lost without you.
I went to a Navy recruiting station. With a degree (Astronautical Engineering).
The recruiter sat me down, gave me a ten-question test with challenging questions like "A good sailor always follows <blank> and when I followed him back to his desk with the completed test, he said "You need to answer all the questions".
Yeah, got you, Chief.
Then when he saw that based on that incredibly grueling, highly effective cognitive analysis tried to get me so sign up as an enlisted nuc. Six year enlistment, more than 50% washout from A-school so I'd become a deck ape, for all six years.
Good Morning CDR Salamander, Xonea Polla (many more)! That’s the Greek response to Happy Birthday!
I’m crawling (in the mud, through a mine field, beneath the barbed wire).
“Morris Schneider, Inc.) originally licensed in about 1922.
Who, in my family was Morris?
Back in about 2022…I listened to a song track … Morris was in Philadelphia, with the other great men resolving and wanting to get back to their families!
During Prohibition someone, without a “Criminal Record”, had to sign for the Liquor License to open “Schneider Liquors” on Lexington Avenue between 84th and 85th on the West side of the street.
I was standing on my waterfront porch facing the “Enemy”: Masons Beach Citizens Association, Inc. TWP (former Army Intel 05) and his wife MRP, seconded on the 125.0’ Community Pier! Music playing loud in my handheld iPhone… “Morris”! That’s who “Morris” was! A “made-up” name by the New York City Attorney hired by my Grandma’s first of (3) husbands, George Schneider!
I smiled!; like the Ben Franklin Electric Light Bulb! That mystery solved, at least in my opinion!
CDR Salamander, please, what is your “For Pay”, job?
I’ll return to this Happy Birthday U.S. Navy post soon. I must read “Patreon Terms of Use”, multi-page, three (3) times. That’s my Law homework today! SSCH Attorney G.P., retired shared this “Advice” with me yesterday at Church.
CDR Salamander, I imagine you can close your eyes and see in your “Brain’s Eye” those six (6) Battle Ship Guns, yes?
A Lawyer, just as a Registered Nurse, needs to know, for immediate recall, certain Anatomical, Biological, or Chemical Terms including what is NOT normal! Your years at USNA drilled you down on what was not USN normal! Your work on Active Duty held you to what Abnormal was…CDR your current sixteen years of post Active Duty keeps you current. My congratulations!
Gratitude for keeping me inside your well-established Loop! Respectfully yours, Nurse Jane
I find the use of "USS" with Alfred interesting, and probably misapplied. The United States Navy was created out of the 1794 Naval Act. The Continental Navy was disestablished in 1785 after being in existence for just ten years. so we have a "break in service" of at least nine years (a little longer if you count when the first US Navy warships were commissioned in the 1790s). If you really wanted to be picky, the American Navy has not existed continuously for 250 years, as of today, but about 9 years shy of that.
but, hey, here's to John Paul Jones and Barry, and all the Sailors (and Marines) who have founded the world's best Navy. Huzzah!
Naming aside? Another trip down the rabbit hole thanks to the links. The namesake of the Alfred certainly makes you wonder. The short life of all those ships, Saltonstall and the Penobscot expedition. Lots of history to unpack.
We have a bigger problem than Paul Revere and the ill fated disaster in Penobscot Bay. What do we do about Benedict Arnold and Valcour Island? We have a great Navy with some skeletons in the family closet!
Does anyone else remember the "Don't Tread on Me" jack we flew in 1976 for our country's 200th birthday? Can we "hope, faint hope", that it will be revived for 2026? Though, today we might be better served by flying Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" flag with all of the current disunity.
I am dreading USS Clinton and potentially USS Obama. It seems the self entitled politicians now feel entitled to warship names for no other reason than they think they deserve it. Can you imagine the ball breaking that went on with "This is Harvey Milk R K."
Happy Birthday Navy. 250 would be perfect timing for a USS Alfred et al.
Always been a fan of prison barges. Forgot about the POS Hillary. I was thinking illegals and transtifa...always room for Madame Secretary to occupy her own barge.
GO ARMY!
I'm just kidding CDR Salamander...GO ARMY! HAHAHAHA...I'm not kidding...HAHAHAHA! (The laughing is supposed to sound like a villainous laugh)
We are missing a lot of names...Cabot as you say, Mugford, Glover, Manley, and of course USS Marblehead (what a great story of courage, perseverance and guts) (I come from Marblehead - but we used to have ships named after these people and places and for good reason), Franklin....etc Lots of old names that fell by the wayside.
I think it is altogether fitting that this year Columbus Day falls on the same day as the Navy’s 250th birthday.
Pete: "Indigenous Navy Day" would be accurate.
just so ya know.....FIRST recruiting station I walked into was NAVY. (my dad being Merchant Marine and eight tenths of my life dealing with (ahem) "marine" things like boats 'n ships 'n shore stuff). Navy wanted too much from that young me at that moment, so Coast Guard came up next. That didn't go well either........so, next door in line was the Corps. They didn't ask questions I was unwilling to answer to at the time. so.....Semper Fi. (our official Day beats yers, so there!)
But, I never forget that my first purpose was NAVY, .....and we Marines would be lost without you.
Happy Birthday cousins!
Semper Fi from Gator Navy
I went to a Navy recruiting station. With a degree (Astronautical Engineering).
The recruiter sat me down, gave me a ten-question test with challenging questions like "A good sailor always follows <blank> and when I followed him back to his desk with the completed test, he said "You need to answer all the questions".
Yeah, got you, Chief.
Then when he saw that based on that incredibly grueling, highly effective cognitive analysis tried to get me so sign up as an enlisted nuc. Six year enlistment, more than 50% washout from A-school so I'd become a deck ape, for all six years.
Thanks...
So I went to the family business.
Good Morning CDR Salamander, Xonea Polla (many more)! That’s the Greek response to Happy Birthday!
I’m crawling (in the mud, through a mine field, beneath the barbed wire).
“Morris Schneider, Inc.) originally licensed in about 1922.
Who, in my family was Morris?
Back in about 2022…I listened to a song track … Morris was in Philadelphia, with the other great men resolving and wanting to get back to their families!
During Prohibition someone, without a “Criminal Record”, had to sign for the Liquor License to open “Schneider Liquors” on Lexington Avenue between 84th and 85th on the West side of the street.
I was standing on my waterfront porch facing the “Enemy”: Masons Beach Citizens Association, Inc. TWP (former Army Intel 05) and his wife MRP, seconded on the 125.0’ Community Pier! Music playing loud in my handheld iPhone… “Morris”! That’s who “Morris” was! A “made-up” name by the New York City Attorney hired by my Grandma’s first of (3) husbands, George Schneider!
I smiled!; like the Ben Franklin Electric Light Bulb! That mystery solved, at least in my opinion!
CDR Salamander, please, what is your “For Pay”, job?
I’ll return to this Happy Birthday U.S. Navy post soon. I must read “Patreon Terms of Use”, multi-page, three (3) times. That’s my Law homework today! SSCH Attorney G.P., retired shared this “Advice” with me yesterday at Church.
CDR Salamander, I imagine you can close your eyes and see in your “Brain’s Eye” those six (6) Battle Ship Guns, yes?
A Lawyer, just as a Registered Nurse, needs to know, for immediate recall, certain Anatomical, Biological, or Chemical Terms including what is NOT normal! Your years at USNA drilled you down on what was not USN normal! Your work on Active Duty held you to what Abnormal was…CDR your current sixteen years of post Active Duty keeps you current. My congratulations!
Gratitude for keeping me inside your well-established Loop! Respectfully yours, Nurse Jane
Happy 250 Navy!
I find the use of "USS" with Alfred interesting, and probably misapplied. The United States Navy was created out of the 1794 Naval Act. The Continental Navy was disestablished in 1785 after being in existence for just ten years. so we have a "break in service" of at least nine years (a little longer if you count when the first US Navy warships were commissioned in the 1790s). If you really wanted to be picky, the American Navy has not existed continuously for 250 years, as of today, but about 9 years shy of that.
but, hey, here's to John Paul Jones and Barry, and all the Sailors (and Marines) who have founded the world's best Navy. Huzzah!
Naming aside? Another trip down the rabbit hole thanks to the links. The namesake of the Alfred certainly makes you wonder. The short life of all those ships, Saltonstall and the Penobscot expedition. Lots of history to unpack.
We have a bigger problem than Paul Revere and the ill fated disaster in Penobscot Bay. What do we do about Benedict Arnold and Valcour Island? We have a great Navy with some skeletons in the family closet!
From the little I know, Arnold did fairly well against a rather good British general who out numbered him. Did I miss something?
No. But his problems and resentment had already begun.
Andrew (Andrea) Doria may not be such a good name to re-incorporate into the navy unless it rescues submarines.
Does anyone else remember the "Don't Tread on Me" jack we flew in 1976 for our country's 200th birthday? Can we "hope, faint hope", that it will be revived for 2026? Though, today we might be better served by flying Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" flag with all of the current disunity.
It was used as the jack from 2002 until 2019.
Happy Birthday Navy!
Great post. Don't get me started on current naming "Conventions" for USN ships!
An insult and a travesty.
What's in a name...Everything.
Because nothing inspires pride or sacrifice in a warship named Harvey Milk.
250 years of tradition.
Time for PROGRESS!
What the Navy needs is a semi-official list of the warship names that are forever kept in commission. Like the RN had till the hulls got to below 10
I am dreading USS Clinton and potentially USS Obama. It seems the self entitled politicians now feel entitled to warship names for no other reason than they think they deserve it. Can you imagine the ball breaking that went on with "This is Harvey Milk R K."
Happy Birthday Navy. 250 would be perfect timing for a USS Alfred et al.
I would have no problem naming the prison barge in the East River of New York after Hillary.
Always been a fan of prison barges. Forgot about the POS Hillary. I was thinking illegals and transtifa...always room for Madame Secretary to occupy her own barge.
hbd usn!