He graduated first in his naval training class and, because of his background, was assigned to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Born into a naval family, Kinkaid was ranked in the lower half of his class on his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in June 1908.
He paid his way through college with a Navy ROTC scholarship and attended naval science classes at the University of California, Berkeley.
The following year he was turned down for the Fleet Air Arm, but with the second world war under way he was accepted, as a naval airman second class.
It would not be until the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, whose ambition to create a world-class navy required a world-class naval hero, that Jones's body would be returned to the United States, where it now lies enshrined at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
"Then you can save hundreds of jobs, you can keep excellent world-class naval construction skills in this country".
The trio from San Pedro, an unfashionable working-class naval town down the coast from Ginn's home of Long Beach, regularly faced a barrage of phlegm when they opened for Black Flag.
Inspired by his rhetoric about being a world-class naval power, the admirals insist that their missile-equipped submarines, rather than the land-based rocket forces, should be Russia's main nuclear deterrent.
The vessel was a Mersey-class naval trawler, built by Cochranes in Selby, North Yorkshire, and was launched on 2 October 1917.
Korvette is a deliberate misspelling of corvette, a reference to a class of naval ship, not the car.
