Onboard the US Navy (USN) Patrol Craft 691 (YP 691), US Naval Academy Midshipman Fourth Class Michael Flaherty shoots bearings and reports them back to the pilothouse, while getting underway from the harbor at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (MD), during a three-day training cruise. The US Naval Academy's fleet of Patrol Craft provide hands-on underway training for midshipmen in navigation, basic ship-handling and seamanship
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Base: Chesapeake Bay
State: Maryland (MD)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Cale Hanie, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The United States Naval Academy is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States established in 1845 under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. The 338-acre campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay 33 miles east of Washington, D.C. and 26 miles southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments.
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