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The Master-at-Arms rating officially started after the American Revolutionary War on board the ships of the United States' early navy. Taking on many customs and traditions of the Royal Navy, the existence of the rating did not take effect until the Naval Act of 1 July 1797, was enacted, which called for every ship to have, among other job ...
Robert Teleford Clifford (c. 1835 to July 24, 1873) was a Master-at-Arms in the United States Navy who fought in the American Civil War. Clifford received the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action aboard the USS Shokokon at New Topsail Inlet near Wilmington, North Carolina on 22 August 1863.
A master-at-arms (US: MA; UK and some Commonwealth: MAA) may be a naval rating, responsible for law enforcement, regulating duties, security, anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) for a country's navy; an army officer responsible for physical training; or a member of the crew of a merchant ship (usually a passenger vessel) responsible for security and law enforcement.
Ohmsen was born March 15, 1854, in Lubeck, Germany and enlisted in the United States Navy on November 7, 1878, in Berwick, England. He was stationed aboard the USS Tallapoosa (1863) as a Master-at-Arms when, just before midnight August 21, 1884, the USS Tallapoosa collided with the schooner James S. Lowell about five miles from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, and started to sink.
Daniel Montague enlisted in the Navy during the mid-1890s and served in USS New York (ACR-2) during the Spanish–American War as a Chief Master-at-Arms. He was one of eight volunteer crew members of the collier USS Merrimac , which Rear Admiral William T. Sampson ordered sunk to block the entrance of Santiago Harbor , Cuba .
U.S. Navy ribbons, pin insignias, and badge worn on the uniform of a Command Master Chief.. Insignias and badges of the United States Navy are military badges issued by the United States Department of the Navy to naval service members who achieve certain qualifications and accomplishments while serving on both active and reserve duty in the United States Navy.
John Stokes (Medal of Honor) John S. Stokes was a Chief Master-at-Arms in the United States Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient. He was born in New York on June 12, 1871. He enlisted in the Navy and had risen to the rank of chief master-at-arms when, on March 31, 1899, on board the armored cruiser USS New York he jumped overboard to assist in ...
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