David Porter (February 1, 1780 – March 3, 1843) was an officer in the United States Navy in the rank of captain and the honorary title of commodore. Porter...

a U.S. naval officer in the American Revolution and friend of David Porter Sr., was unable to care for all his children. Commodore David Porter offered...

Dave Porter (Canadian politician), Canadian politician David Porter (naval officer) (1780–1843), United States Navy officer and ambassador David Dixon...

Commodore Porter may refer to: David Porter (naval officer) (1780–1843), U.S. Navy commodore William D. Porter (1808–1864), U.S. Navy commodore David Dixon...

William David Porter (10 March 1808 – 1 May 1864) was a flag officer of the United States Navy. He was the son of Commodore David Porter (1780–1843) and...

tradition. Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Farragut was fostered by naval officer David Porter after the death of his mother. When he was 11 years old, Farragut...

northeast Indiana, including Porter. In 1837 the county was organized. It was named for Capt. David Porter, naval officer during the Barbary Wars and the...

arm held trident, all surrounded by laurels. Two Naval Officers' crossed swords honor David Porter, his son, and the ships mission to "Train, Fight and...

ordered to report to the New Orleans station, under the command of Captain David Porter. He was in semi-independent command of a flotilla of gunboats based in...

the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is a statutory position in the British Armed Forces usually held by a four star admiral. As the highest-ranking officer to serve...

Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (died 1827) February 1 – David Porter, naval officer (died 1843) February 19 – Richard McCarty, politician (died 1844)...

Gwin's squadron commander, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, remarked: "The country has lost one of its bravest officers." Four ships have been named USS Gwin...

March 1807, he was made a lieutenant and served as executive officer for Captain David Porter on the Essex during her cruise in the Pacific in the War of...

David Conner (1792 – 20 March 1856) was an officer and commodore of the United States Navy. He served in the War of 1812 and led the Home Squadron during...

Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), commonly known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment...

The superintendent of the United States Naval Academy is its commanding officer. The position is a statutory office (10 U.S.C. § 8451a), and is roughly...

the Navy. The Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the...

Major General David Dixon Porter (April 29, 1877 – February 25, 1944), a Medal of Honor recipient, was a United States Marine Corps officer who served in...

John Rodgers (July 11, 1772 – August 1, 1838) was a senior naval officer in the United States Navy during its formative years in the 1790s through the...

initially created as a part of the Union Army, although it was commanded by naval officers, and was then known as the Western Gunboat Flotilla and sometimes as...

Navy Department. 1966. Porter (1886), p. 772 Bibliography Porter, David D. (1886). The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: Sherman. This article...

included a group of American and Peruvian naval officers and engineers, James Henry Rochelle, David Porter McCorkle, Walter Raleigh Butt, and Thomas Wing...

Davids (born 1968) is an American United States Navy special warfare officer with the rank of rear admiral. He has served as the commander of Naval Special...

the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of both David Porter and his son David Dixon Porter. Porter was laid down by the William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia...

Porter. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. Brown, David (1990)...

signed on with David Porter (naval officer). He assisted in the building of a fort at Taiohae before he was assigned as first officer of the Essex Junior...

family prominent in American naval service; his cousins were William D. Porter, David Dixon Porter, and David G. Farragut. Porter's father was an alcoholic...

naval officer Richard Wainwright. He entered the United States Navy on June 30, 1837, at age 16, as a midshipman. He attended the Philadelphia Naval Asylum...

October 25, 1963, in La Jolla, California to naval aviator Lieutenant Harmon Rabb, USN (played in flashbacks by David James Elliott, with a moustache) and Patricia...

Junior, (ex-Atlantic) which cruised in company with her captor; Porter put his executive officer, John Downes, in command of Essex Junior. The two ships and...