An academy spokeswoman declined today to say whether the academy had taken any action against the two midshipmen.
The two midshipmen, who had just completed their sophomore year at the academy in Annapolis, were being held on $250,000 bond.
Two midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy face charges of raping two female classmates in a dormitory room on the Annapolis campus last year.
A10 Academy Charges 2 With Rape Two midshipmen at the Naval Academy face military charges of raping two classmates at a party in a dormitory room last year.
The superintendent of the academy, Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller, following an initial hearing known as an Article 32 hearing, referred two midshipmen, Eric Graham and Joshua Tate, to general court-martial.
During one three-week period in 1996, a midshipman was arrested for assaulting four female students, another student was charged with sexually abusing a toddler, and two midshipmen and three former academy students were indicted for operating a car theft ring.
Lieutenant Franklin, accompanied by a surgeon, two midshipmen, and a few Orkneymen, embarked for Hudson's Bay, in June 1819, on board of one of the company's ships, which ran ashore on Cape Resolution during a fog on the voyage out, and was saved from foundering by Franklin's nautical skill.
Two midshipmen were also killed, and all the bodies were thrown overboard.
The island of Lissa itself was defended by a small number of local troops under the command of two midshipmen.
