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Submarine Warfare insignia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Submarine Warfare insignia is considered one of the Navy's three major warfare pins (and is the oldest) along with the Surface Warfare Badge and the Naval Aviator Badge. A Philadelphia firm, which had done work for the Navy in the field of United States Naval Academy class rings, was approached by the Bureau of Navigation with the request that it design a suitable badge. On 20 March 1924, the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation recommended to the Secretary of the Navy that the design be adopted. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Submarine_Warfare_insignia   (668 words)

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 357, NAVY, Department of the: Library of Economics and Liberty The chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting has charge of the equipment of all vessels of war, and the supply to their sails, rigging, anchors and fuel; also of the recruiting of sailors of the various grades. The chief of the bureau of navigation supplies vessels of war with maps, charts, chronometers, barometers, flags, signal lights, glasses and stationery; he has charge of the publication of charts, the Nautical Almanac, and surveys; and the naval observatory and hydrographic office are under the direction of this bureau. Besides the eight bureaus before named, the act of July 5, 1862, created a hydrographic office, attached to the bureau of navigation, with the function of providing nautical charts, sailing directions, etc., for the use of all vessels of the United States and of navigators generally. www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy748.html   (905 words)

National Archives and Records Administration The Bureau of Naval Personnel originated as the Bureau of Navigation, established by an act of July 5, 1862. In 1884, a Bureau of Navigation under the control of the Commissioner of Navigation was established within the Treasury Department to administer the navigation laws. The two bureaus were merged in 1932 to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, which was renamed the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (BMIN) in 1936. www.history.navy.mil /sources/mo/nara.htm   (827 words)

[No title] Steamboat Inspection Service and Bureau of Navigation consolidated into Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection to be under direction of a chief of bureau by section 501 of act June 30, 1932. Director of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection was designation given to chief of such Bureau by Secretary of Commerce under section 502(b) of act June 30, 1932. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation was designation given to Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection by act May 27, 1936. uscode.house.gov /download/pls/33C3.txt   (2301 words)

US CODE--TITLE 46, APPENDIX--SHIPPING Act June 30, 1932, consolidated Bureau of Navigation with Steamboat Inspection Service to form a new bureau to be known as Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, which name was changed to Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation by act May 27, 1936. Director of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation was designation given to chief of bureau by Secretary of Commerce under act June 30, 1932, §; 502(b). Abolition of Agencies.--The Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, the office of the director thereof, the offices of supervising inspectors, principal traveling inspectors, local inspectors, assistant inspectors, shipping commissioners, deputy shipping commissioners, and the board of supervising inspectors, the boards of local inspectors, the marine casualty investigation board, and the marine boards are hereby abolished. www.access.gpo.gov /uscode/title46a/46a_1_.html   (1792 words)

Chapter II The Bureau of Navigation provides for the supply and upkeep of pigeons, but their operations for the air station are lodged in the Office of Naval Operations, and the pigeon records and pigeon officer are attached to that office. The Bureau does not consider that its activity for pigeons at present justifies detailing an additional officer for this work; but the concentration of all pigeon activities under this Bureau might be desirable, in which case the Officer in Charge of pigeons with his records should be transferred to Aviation- Navigation. Upon the establishment of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics in the Navy Department, Washington, DC in 1921, all Aviation Divisions in the Bureau of Navigation were transferred to the then new Bureau of Aeronautics with RADM William A. Moffett, USN, as Chief of the Bureau. www.navyphoto.org /Carol/chap02.html   (14072 words)

United States Senate Inquiry - Day 17 - Testimony of John J. Knapp - Hydrographer - U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) The duty of the Hydrographic Office, under the law, is to improve the means of safe navigation of the seas, for the benefit of the Navy and the maritime marine, by providing nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instruction. In carrying out this duty it becomes necessary to collect information of all kinds that may affect the charts of the various seas and harbors of the world, and the sailing directions, which latter are what might be called guidebooks of the seas. Whenever reports are made which have immediate effect upon the safety of navigation, they are given at once to the maritime community and the public generally and are again flashed out to the sea by means of radiograms, the latter, as a rule, from the wireless stations under the control of the Navy Department. www.titanicinquiry.org /USInq/AmInq17Knapp01.html   (2081 words)

NARA - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation Combined with the Bureau of Navigation to form Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection by act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. Bureau of Navigation established in the Treasury Department by act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat 118), to consolidate the administration of all navigation laws except those relating to vessel inspection, lighthouses, lifesaving, and revenue collection (see 26.1). Comprised of employees from the Bureau of Statistics concerned with numbering merchant vessels; the Register and Tonnage Division of the Register of the Treasury; the Internal Revenue and Navigation Division; and shipping commissioners, thereafter appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/041.html?template=print   (3341 words)

History of U.S. Submariner's Insignia - DOLPHINS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) On 13 June 1923, Captain E. King, Commander, Submarine Division Three [later Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, during WW II], suggested to the Secretary of the Navy via the Bureau of Navigation [now known as BuPers] that a distinguishing device for qualified submariners be adopted. A Philadelphia firm, Bailey, Banks and Biddle [BBandB], which had done work for the Navy in the field of Naval Academy class rings, was approached by the Bureau of Navigation with the request that it design a suitable badge. It was a starboard angle on the bow view of an "O" class submarine, proceeding on the surface, with bow planes rigged for diving, flanked by dolphins in a horizontal position with their heads resting on the upper edge of the bow planes. home.earthlink.net /~geflynn/dolphins.htm   (688 words)

Correspondence re mariners draft exemption during World War II From: The Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Receipt of the file relative to suggestions of the Bureau of Navigation and the Eleventh Naval District in the classification of necessary men employed in the merchant marine is acknowledged. The enclosed file comprising suggestions of the Bureau of Navigation and the Eleventh Naval District relative to the classification of seamen is transmitted to you for comment. www.usmm.org /draft.html   (1481 words)

Naval Submarine Qualification Badge Although King's particular design was not adopted, the Bureau of Navigation pursued the idea and developed a design consisting of a bow view of a submarine on the surface with bow rudders rigged for diving and flanked by a pair of dolphins. On 20 March 1924 the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation recommended adoption of the design to the Secretary of the Navy. The official announcement came with Bureau of Navigation Circular Letter 79-24 of September 23, 1924. www.angelfire.com /md2/patches/medals/otherqbnsubins.html   (397 words)

United States Coast Guard Flag - Veterans Flag Depot In 1885 the Revenue Cutter Service cooperated with the Bureau of Fisheries in connection with "propagation of food fishes." Twenty years later, cutters enforced the regulations governing the landing, delivery, cure, and sale of sponges in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard also is responsible for maintaining and patrolling the safe and efficient navigable waterways system needed to support domestic commerce, facilitate international trade, and ensure the continued availability of the military sealift fleet required for national defense. Bureau of Navigation and the Steamship Inspection Service transferred to new department. veteransflagdepot.us /images/military-flags/coast-guard.html   (1812 words)

Air Navigation Bureau (ANB) The Air Navigation Bureau develops technical studies for the Air Navigation Commission as well as recommendations for Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) relating to the safety, regularity and efficiency of international air navigation for the Council. Therefore, the Air Navigation Bureau is very much involved in maintaining the ICAO Standards current. The Air Navigation Bureau plans, prepares, convenes and conducts regional air navigation meetings in co-operation with the regional offices and Regional Affairs Office (RAO). www.icao.int /icao/en/anb   (124 words)

Coast Guard Foundation for History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) A naval officer was detailed to each lighthouse district, a revenue cutter or a hired vessel was placed at his disposal, and he was instructed to inspect all aids to navigation, report on their conditions, and recommend future courses of action. L., 118) created a special service known as the Bureau of Navigation, under the Treasury Department, with the duty of supervising the work having to do with the administration of American navigation laws. 1 July 1885-The Bureau of Navigation was permanently organized in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress of 3 March 1885 26 July 1886-An Act of Congress (24 Stat. www.fcgh.org /month/july.htm   (1308 words)

NARA - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the Hydrographic office Established: In the Bureau of Navigation, Department of the Navy, by an act of June 21, 1866 (14 Stat. Letters received from navy agents, 1842-62; the Bureau of Construction and Equipment, 1852; the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac Office, 1856-62; and assistant inspectors of ordnance, 1861-62. Letters received from the Bureau of Navigation, 1866-86; navy yards, 1866-83; Hydrographic Office branch offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Francisco, 1883-85; the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1879-85; home and foreign naval stations, 1870-85; and foreign countries, 1868-85. archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/037.html?template=print   (1695 words)

Selected Documents: Boxer Rebellion (China Relief Expedition) Concerning the naval operations in China there is little further to state, as the Bureau's report for 1900 covered most of the important events. Soon after the occupation of Pekin by the relieving column of allies the naval force at Taku was sensibly diminished. In this connection the Bureau is gratified to record the facility with which mails for our soldiers and sailors in China were handled by the postal authorities, special postal employees being sent to China for that purpose. www.history.navy.mil /docs/boxer/boxer15.htm   (1629 words)

HCGL Manuscripts: GLMS 35, US Steamboat Inspection Service A Bureau of Navigation was added to the Treasury Department for administering navigation laws. In 1903 both the Bureau of Navigation and the Steamboat Inspection Service were transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor. The Bureau of Navigation and the Steamboat Inspection Service were merged in 1932 to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection. www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/hcgl/glms0035.html   (853 words)

US Coast Guard History FAQS It was empowered under the Secretary of the Treasury to "discharge all the administrative duties" relative to lighthouses and other aids to navigation. The Secretary of the Treasury was president of the Board, and it was authorized to elect a chairman and to divide the coast of the United States into twelve lighthouse districts, to each of which the President was to assign an army or navy officer as lighthouse inspector." 5 July 1884: Bureau of Navigation established under the control of the Treasury Department (23 Stat. www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/faqs/when.html   (757 words)

Navy Bureaus - October 1939 RADM Chester Nimitz, being relieved as COMBATDIVONE in 1939 prior to becoming Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. His next assignment would be as CINCPAC and CINPOA during World War II and he would finish his active career as Chief of Naval Operations with the rank of Fleet Admiral. As far as I know it is in the public domain. www.geocities.com /scs028a/Bureaus.html   (60 words)

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea This version is listed in ¡®Flags of Maritime Nations,¡¯ published by the Bureau of Navigation at the U.S. Navy Department in July 1882. The Taegukgi was found in the ¡°Flags of Maritime Nations,¡± issued by the U.S. Navy Department¡¯s Bureau of Navigation in July 1882, and with its red and blue yin-yang symbol and four fl trigrams has the same form as the current Korean flag. This Taegukgi would be two or three months older than the one used by Park Yeong-hyo, who is known as the first to make and use a four-trigram flag. english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200401/200401260030.html   (436 words)

Early Radio Station Lists Issued by the U.S. Government Then, in late 1912, licencing of U. radio stations was set up under the Commerce Department, and the Bureau of Navigation now became responsible for issuing official annual lists of all licenced U. radio stations, which it did for period from 1913 through 1926. As part of its enforcement of the new act, the Bureau of Navigation included an appendix in its 1910 through 1912 annual reports containing detailed radio information about the vessels covered by the act. Issued annually, as of June 30th, for 1920 through 1926, by the Bureau of Navigation. earlyradiohistory.us /statlist.htm   (1443 words)

Coast Guard Organizational History Overview Bureau of Navigation and the Steamship Inspection Service transferred to newly created Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Marine Inspection (formerly the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection) transferred temporarily to the Coast Guard under Navy Department control. Bureau of Marine Inspection was abolished and became a permanent part of the Coast Guard under Treasury Department control. www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/comrel/factfile/Factcards/HistoryOrg.html   (166 words)

Navy NewsStand - All Hands Magazine The first "issue" of All Hands was printed as the Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin No. 1 (dated Aug. 30, 1922). Twenty years later, the title was changed to Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin. As America claimed "Victory in Europe" on the cover of June 1945, the magazine's new banner read, All Hands, and the name stuck. www.news.navy.mil /allhands.asp   (170 words)

Radio Service Bulletins, Nos. 1 to 183 (January 1915 to June 1932), from the Bureau of Navigation, Department of ... 1 to 183 (January 1915 to June 1932), from the Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce Audio Division (FCC) USA were issued monthly by the Bureau of Navigation (and later the Radio Division), Department of Commerce WWV signals instituted by the Bureau of Standards (February 1, 1923) www.fcc.gov /mb/audio/decdoc/radio_service_bulletins.html   (1284 words)

Find in a Library: The Bureau of Navigation; its history, activities, and organization Find in a Library: The Bureau of Navigation; its history, activities, and organization The Bureau of Navigation; its history, activities, and organization WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/ab728017b29f4f37.html   (51 words)

BUREAU Centro de Negocios Escritorios Inteligentes / Inteligent Offices EZ Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) BUREAU Centro de Negocios Escritorios Inteligentes / Inteligent Offices EZ Commerce This site uses frames, but your browser does not support them. Please download the latest version either of these browsers and return to visit us! www.bizwiz.com /ezcommerce/bureaucentrodenegocios.htm   (36 words)

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