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Pathfinder of the SeasIn the quarter-century preceding the Civil War, the Navy organized 11 important scientific expeditions that took its men and ships all over the world. The best known of these scientific forays was the U.S. Exploring Expedition, which was dispatched in 1838 to chart the Antarctic, the Pacific, and the coast of Oregon, under the command Lieutenant Charles Wilkes. But there were others, including one that took American Sailors into the Middle East to explore the depths of the Dead Sea in search of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But not all the great maritime discoveries were made at sea. One naval officer, who ultimately became known as the "Pathfinder of the Seas," earned that sobriquet from his desk in a Washington office.
Ever since his days as a midshipman, Matthew Fontaine Maury had been interested in the subject of navigation. In 1836, at the age of 30, he produced a popular textbook on the subject, A New Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Navigation. After a stagecoach accident left him lame and no longer fit for duty at sea, the Navy Department appointed him to be the first superintendent of the newly established Naval Observatory.
No longer able to observe the forces of nature from the deck of a ship, Maury began a close study of the huge piles of ships' logs stored at his headquarters. Long ignored as mere administrative records, they became for Maury a wealth of observational information as recorded over many years by seagoing captains. In 1847 he published the results of his research in another book, Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, in which he contended that if the winds and currents he had plotted were followed, the time required for ocean passages could be significantly reduced. Seasoned mariners initially resented a desk-bound "sailor" telling them how to do their jobs, but when a ship following Maury's suggestions made a voyage to South America that cut ten days from the usual time, his theories soon gained wide acceptance.
In 1855, Maury wrote his pioneering work on oceanography, The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology, which begins with the poetic evocation: "One planet is invested with two great oceans; one visible, the other invisible; one underfoot, the other overhead; one entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface."
Maury also wrote a number of influential essays, some of which advocated the establishment of an academy for primary naval officer training. He was the guiding hand behind an international congress on oceanography held in Brussels in 1853, at which a uniform system for recording oceanographic and meteorological data was established. With such information pouring in, he was able to draft wind and current charts for all the major trade routes of the world.
The Civil War brought an end to his career in the U.S. Navy-although he opposed slavery, he chose to go with his home state of Virginia into the Confederacy-but it did not end his renown. The scientific achievements of this desk-bound pathfinder earned him numerous honors from seagoing nations of the world. Several ships have borne his name, and, perhaps most fitting, midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy today study science and engineering in Maury Hall. Lieutenant Commander Cutler is the author of several books,including A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy and Brown Water, Black Berets.
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J M Brooke(a) May, 1860, Brooke navigated Japanese from Japan to San Francisco. He invented deep-sea sounding device, the Brooke gun, and designed armor for CSA ironclad Virginia. LT Brooke had just returned from Japan and was visiting VMI when Census was taken. Brooke, J.M. Brooke.
(b) Brother-in-law of Thomas H Williamson. Brooke married Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Selden Garnett, of Norfolk, his first cousin and sister of Louisa Williamson, in 1849. “Lizzie” died 1864. Brooke married Kate Corbin Pendleton, widow of LTC “Sandie” Pendleton, in 1871 [Brooke, “Lexington Years,” 88]. (c) After war, at VMI, professor of practical astronomy, geodesy, physical geography & meteorology (later professor of physics) 1865-1898 [Couper, Hundred Years]. Full text of "Encyclopedia of Virginia biography"In 1868 he was appointed provisional governor, under military authority. ...... the data for this work that he wrote his "Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology. ... 1809, son of Edmund Pendleton and Lucy (Nelson) Pendleton, his wife. ...... May 26, 1842, Virginia Maury, ds;ughter of the Rt. Rev. ... www.archive.org/stream/.../encyclopediaofvi03tyleuoft_djvu.txt - Similar
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