Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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THE UNITED STATES NAVAL HERITAGE Bon Homme Richard vs.-Serapis - 23 September 1779 From the days of wooden sailing ships with black-powder guns to today's nuclear powered combatants armed with missiles and jet air- craft, the heritage of our modem Navy has been established by coura- geous and dedicated seafaring men. Their individual maritime achieve- ments are woven into a brilliant tapestry of collective accomplishments which have made the United States Navy the vital instrument of nation- al defense that it is today. To john Paul jones went the honor of first hoisting the Stars and Stripes over an American man-of-war, the USS RANGER, and of first receiving a national salute in Quiberon Bay on February 14, 1778, from France. In command of BONHOMME RICHARD he defeated and cap- tured the British man-of-war SERAPIS off Flamborough Head, giving our Navy its famous retort to an invitation to surrender I have not yet begun to fight. With such inspiration thousands of American sailors have followed in his wake, making individual courage the collective spirit of our Navy. Commodore Edward Preble likewise filled his officers and men with esprit and fighting courage. Some of Preble's boys became the great leaders of the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur, james Lawrence, and Thomas MacDonough. Perry swept the British sea power off Lake Erie. I-Iull and Bainbridge in CONSTITUTION, along with Decatur in UNITED STATES, established American naval power on the high seas during the first year of the War of 1812. As our nation grew in stature in the world family, so did our naval of- ficers grow in stature as diplomats. Typical of their exploits were Com- modore Matthew Calbraith Perry's negotiations with the Emperor of japan in 1853-54. T 55,

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The existence of such a large and potentially hostile foreign naval force must again be evaluated in our equation of sea power. just as it was during the years preceding World War II. The Navy is concerned not only with its basic mission of national se- curity, but also with all other national interests in the ocean. Certainly one of the most important national interests in the ocean is its use for maritime commerce which has been growing at unprecedented rates. As maritime commerce knits the free world into a unified economic complex. new types ol demands will be placed upon marine transport. Defense of sea lines of communication and protection of ocean shipping are traditional tasks of naval power, and these tasks will increase as the volume and importance of maritime commerce increase. V A second area of national interest that is growing and changing dra- Combat Information Center rnatically now lies in the way man looks at the ocean. He is increasingly turning to the sea for new uses: food and fresh waterg for minerals and energy: perhaps for a key to weather control: perhaps, even, for living space. Already about 16W of world petroleum comes from beneath the seabed and all ofthe magnesium used by the United States comes from the sea. And with all this. the total resources ofthe ocean have scarcely been tapped. Certainly man will continue and even accelerate his move to utilize the ocean. But there are three important points to keep in mind in con- sidering this prospeet: First. as man moves into the ocean, he is not mov- ing into some alien extraterrestrial space. He is extending and expand- ing the area of his present world. Second. the knowledge and technolo- gy gained hy the Navy will contribute to and accelerate this expansion into the ocean. And third. national activities in the ocean will constitute new national interests within the Navy's operating environment. It ap- pears certain that new Navy missions. new Navy tasks, and new Navy capabilities will develop. ln summary. the United States Navy today is engaged in implement- ing our nationls interests through sea power. And sea power means many things. It means security forthe ocean commerce that is the very life blood of our free economy. and. security for our homeland against attack on the sea or from the sea. For the United States sea power also .W-ww-u.. W., means the ability to control up to seventy percent ofthe earthls surface V ,, L4 when our national interests require. ff? Fill I yr ,,' M l Sea power - an instrument of national policy so vital to the freedom i ,. yw,,,,,W y W ofthe United States and the free world. The very survival of our nation L 'M 5 'N M may well depend upon itl ii 'J Operation Deep Freeze Phantom Jets Fly In Formation f y Nm myv t .. M ai, T VY h aymhm . f'sal mf,yy,,... w0 fn V WMI NAVY

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The War between the States developed courageous fighting men in both the Union and Confederate Navies. David Dixon Porter became famous on the Mississippi River. Captain Raphael Semmes in the com- merce raider CSS ALABAMA captured sixty-nine Union ships before he was destroyed off Cherbourg, France, by Winslow in the USS KEAR- SABGE. Perhaps the outstanding Civil War naval hero was David Glas- gow Farragut f Damn the torpedoes, full speed aheadlnl, whose fleets enforced the blockade of the Confederacy . One generation of fighting men breeds its successors. Dewey and Sampson, our naval leaders in the Spanish-American War, were fore- runners of the naval leaders of our next war. Wilson, Simms, Hart, Taus- sig, and many others next guided our Navy in the defeat of the German U-boat menace and convoyed our armies safely to France in the war with Germany during 1917 and 1918. Between the World Wars the Navy devoted its meager resources of manpower, ships, and funds to research and development in aviation and submarine warfare. Striclcen at Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines in 1941 and practically blockaded by German submarines operating off H tif , ,sh Battle Of New Orleans - 24 April 1862 p N.. 5 ff 8 1 Battle Of Lake Champlain - 11 September 1814 ' ' , ,ixgawmwwn-WM ...M