Category

American sea captains

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Nathaniel Palmer

American explorer (1799–1877)

American navigator and maritime writer (1844-1909)

American businessman (1962–2023)

American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor (1752-1832)

American merchant sea captain

Richard Phillips

former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama

Mary Ann Brown Patten

American sailor

Thomas Hubbard Sumner

American sea captain (1807–1876)

Mercator Cooper

American whaler (1803–1872)

American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy

William Lewis Herndon

American explorer (1813–1857)

American explorer and sea captain (1769–1841)

Mervyn S. Bennion

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1941)

American environmentalist

Donald Baxter MacMillan

American explorer and sailor (1874-1970)

Dudley W. Morton

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1907-1943)

American sea captain

Nathaniel Gordon

American slave trader (1826–1862)

Nicholas Biddle

Royal Navy officer

American sailor

American nautical captain (1956-2010)

American nautical captain

Jeremiah Wadsworth

American politician (1743-1804)

Howard W. Gilmore

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1902–1943)

Alexander Gillon

American politician

Franklin Van Valkenburgh

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1888–1941)

Ernest E. Evans

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

American nautical captain and television personality

Samuel David Dealey

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

19th-century American sailor and blackbirder

Whaler, Polar explorer