Sentence examples for the first naval from inspiring English sources

Robert D. Watts, the first naval officer and the first black to serve as superintendent.

The first naval ship to bear this name was launched in 1587.

Admiral Moorer later became the first naval officer in 13 years to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In 1776, the first naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought just off Grand View's riverbanks.

In June 1775 the first naval battle of the American Revolution occurred in Machias Bay near Fort O'Brien (built 1775).

The First Yale Unit, formed in 1916, is considered to be the first naval air reserve unit and the first aerial coastal patrol unit.

This mission is regarded as the first naval-air operation in military history and was widely commented upon in the press, both Greek and international.

The seventh naval employee worked from a base near Philadelphia.

The incineration was carried out with pomp and ceremony at the Sixth Naval Base with the port cranes in the distance.

In 1667 the Treaty of Breda ended the second naval war between the Netherlands and England and confirmed British possession of New York and New Jersey and Dutch control of the East Indies and Dutch Guiana.

He was commandant of the Ninth Naval District and the Fourth Naval District before retiring from the Navy on 1 January 1939.