Service in US Navy
Bainbridge saw service in several wars and commanded a number of famous early U.S. Navy vessels including the USS George Washington, the USS Philadelphia and the USS Constitution, ultimately becoming a member of the board of naval commissioners during the latter part of his long naval career.
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Famous quotes containing the words service and/or navy:
“You had to face your ends when young
‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
But never made a poorer song
That you might have a heavier purse,
Nor gave loud service to a cause
That you might have a troop of friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)