Famous Sailors

• Cuffe, Paul

   The richest African American of the early 19th century

• Farragut, David Glasgow

  The Civil War admiral who said, "Damn the torpedoes..."

• Jenkins, Robert

  His ear started a war between Britain and Spain

• Miller, Doris "Dorie"

  African-American naval hero of Pearl Harbor

• Nelson, Horatio

  The hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

• Nimitz, Chester W.

  Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II

• Perry, Matthew Calbraith

  Commodore Perry, who began Western trade with Japan, 1853

• Perry, Oliver Hazard

  The hero of the Battle of Lake Erie (1813)

• Selkirk, Alexander

  The model for Robinson Crusoe

• Slocum, Joshua

  The first person to sail around the world alone

• Yamamoto, Isoroku

  Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

See: Index by Occupation