Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the war Captain Sigsbee rendered notable service in command of the auxiliary cruiser St. Pawl. He captured the collier Restormel carrying coal to Cervera's fleet, as well as the cruiser Isabella II and the destroyer Terror...
...Admiral Sigsbee had many other titles to distinction. After his graduation from Annapolis in 1863, he fought with Damn-the-Torpedoes Farragut at Mobile Bay. The next year he engaged in the storming of Fort Fisher. Following the Civil War, at only 23, he was made a Lieutenant Commander, and in the years prior to 1898 took part in many activities?served with the Asiatic Squadron, taught at Annapolis, invented instruments for deep sea sounding, drew cartoons for the Daily Graphic of New York. At one time, in command of the Blake, he made a considerable stir. The vessel...
...ceremony was simple and impressive. The French Tricolor, at Marshal Foch's command, was hauled down to the call of the Marseillaise, played by French bugles and a Marine Band from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh. After this the Stars and Stripes were run up to the tune of the Star-Spangled Banner...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...
...having gone to War, he was doing guard duty on Brooklyn Bridge. In 1919, he was returning from patrol service, a naval lieutenant, second in command of the U-117, noted for bravery...