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A regular US Navy Admiral, who fought for the Union.
he captured New Oleans in 1862
The true statement regarding First U.S. Admiral David Farragut is that he was the first person to hold the rank of full admiral in the United States Navy.
Admiral David Farragut.
new Orleans
He climbed into the rigging of his flagships, the USS Hartford, and surveyed the scene.He saw he must go ahead into the danger of the minefield.
Admiral Farragut Academy was created in 1945.
Admiral David Farragut was an admiral with the United States Navy.
The motto of Admiral Farragut Academy is 'Success is Never Accidental'.
In August of 1864, Union Admiral David Farragut was faced with the task of sealing off the port of Mobile, Alabama. There were two Rebel forts Morgan and Gaines. Also was the Confederate ironclad ram, CSS Tennessee and three gunboats. Farragut also had to navigate around mines, torpedoes and sunken wood piles.
Admiral Farragut
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut.
Admiral Farragut
The Union fleet at the Battle of Mobile Bay was Admiral David Farragut. The battle began on August 5, 1864. The USS Tecumseh was a monitor type warship and hit a torpedo and sunk during this battle.
He was an Admiral of the US Navy.
Farragut steamed into the bay ignoring the torpedoes used to mine the harbor, "full speed ahead." IMPROVEMENT After the lost of his ironclad Tecumseh, leader of his squadron, sunk by a torpedoe, Farragut took the "snap" decision of going on, irrespective of further losses or heavy damages, which might have arisen. As statement of fact Farragut had still 17 units at disposal, of which 3 ironclad (Chickasaw, Winnebago and Manhattan) and three large steam corvettes (Hartford, Brooklyn and Richmond, one of which, the Brroklin provided with a dredging apparatus)), altogether having a total of 157 guns. The Confederate Admiral Buchanan had 4 units at disposal (one of which was the ironclad Tennessee) having a total of 26 guns plus the support given by the 34 guns of Fort Morgan, altogether 60 guns. So Farragut decided to force the passage to the Bay in order to reach the task of penetrating in it and get to an all out combat, making then use of his overwhelming fire power and superior manoeuverability of his fleet to beat the enemy opposition. It was a well working and successful calculated risk.
David Dixon Porter