Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-05-22 | Page 6 | Our First Naval Academy

II t I Our First Naval Academy The first naval school in the United S s States Slates was established a at at- tho the old Boston navy yard a little over a cenS century century cen cen- S tury ago the tho founder being Commodore Commodore CornS Com Corn S William Willlam Bainbridge who Is isS S known as the Father of American S. S Nav Naval l Construction and who was wasS was was' S S born in N. N J. J Bainbridge S was captured by the French in 1798 l S. S during the naval conflicts between that country and the United States and in 1803 he was held prisoner for 4 nine lne months by the pirates lie II lIe fought gallantly in the last war warS S between America and England and andS S after its conclusion induced the 5 Washington authorities to open a training school for naval officers at Boston In 1840 some years after the death of the founder of American naval education a naval school was opened in the tho old naval asylum in Philadelphia and here for a few years the tho midshipmen of the republic were instructed in the arts of warfare on the sea The plan was so sucCEssful successful suc sue that it was decided to open a permanent naval academy Annapolis Annapolis Annap Annap- I olis oils Md l was chosen as the site of the school and there over seventy years ago the present United States I naval academy was formally opened