SURFACE NAVY ASSOCIATION  
 Hall of Fame

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Service dates (if known) are indicated next to each honoree.
 

 

Captain John Paul Jones: 1775-1783	Boatswain’s Mate First Class James Elliott Williams
Captain John Manley: 1775-1783	Captain Nicholas Biddle, 1775-1778
Commodore Thomas Truxtun: 1794-1801	Gunner's Mate Third Class Paul H. Carr, 1942-1944
Commodore John Barry, 1775-1803	Commander Ernest Edwin Evans, 1931-1944
Seaman Daniel Frazier 1803-1805	Captain Thomas G. Kelley, 1960-1990
Commodore Edward Preble: 1789-1807	Captain James Lawrence, 1800-1812
Commodore Joshua Barney: 1775-1818	Rear Admiral Herbert E. Schonland, 1925-1947
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry: 1799-1819	Maintopman John Williams
Captain Stephen Decatur, Jr., 1798-1820	Contraband Robert Blake, 1864-
Commodore Thomas MacDonough, 1800-1825	Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, 1941-1996
Commodore William Bainbridge, 1789-1833	Rear Admiral Robert W. Copeland, USNR, 1935-1965
Captain Isaac Hull, 1798-1843	Captain Gustavus Conyngham, 1777-1780
Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1809-1855	Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert D. Black, 1941-1971
Coxswain John Cooper	Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1856-1906
Admiral David G. Farragut: 1810-1870	Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, 1908-1947
Admiral David Dixon Porter, 1829-1891	Rear Admiral Richard N. Antrim, 1931-1954
Admiral of the Navy, George Dewey: 1854-1917	Admiral Robert B. Carney, 1917-1955
Admiral William S. Sims: 1880-1922	Vice Admiral Robert W. Hayler, 1914-1951
Ship’s Cook Third Class Doris Miller: 1939-1943	Chief Boatswain's Mate Edwin Joseph Hill, 1941-
Seaman First Class Johnnie D. Hutchins	BMC (later LCDR) John McCloy, 1898-1928
Admiral Raymond Spruance: 1906-1948	Captain David Porter, 1795-1830
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke: 1923-1961	Seaman David George Quellet, 1966-1967
Chief Petty Officer Truett, 1969-	Chief Watertender Peter Tomich, 1941-
Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear, 1948-1979	Coxswain Thomas Fitzpatrick, 1864-
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., 1942-1974	Watertender First Class Elmer Charles Bigelow, 1941-
Vice Admiral James Doyle, Sr. 1919-1953	SHMC Kevin Ford, USN (R)
Captain Leon S. Kintberger, 1932-1962	Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, 1906-1946
Captain of the Forecastle James Ward, 1864-	VADM David B. Robinson, 1963-1996
Operations Specialist Master Chief Larry Nowell 1958-1977	Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, 1909-1948
Rear Admiral Sheldon Hoard Kinney 1941-1972	First Class Fireman John Laverty (aka “Lafferty”), 1864
Landsman Wilson Brown, 1864	Boatswain’s Mate First Class Reinhardt John Keppler, 1942-
Chief Watertender Oscar Verner Peterson, 1942	Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munro, U. S. Coast Guard
Yeoman Second Class William Tremblay, 1942-	Captain William L. McGonagle, 1944-1974
Chief Petty Officer George Ajdukovich, 1969	Lieutenant William Seach, 1900-
John Ericsson	Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, 1841-1910
Master Gunner George Sirian, 1827-1873	Vice Admiral William P. Mack, 1937-1975
Vice Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, 1895-1947	BMC Richard H. Patterson, USCG 1965
Coxswain Samuel B. Roberts, Jr. 1939-1942