place_of_death kinnaird r. mckee
___MASK87___ ___MASK41___ ( October 3 , 1800  January 17 , 1891 ) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state , at the national and international level . During his tenure as U . S . Secretary of the Navy , he established the United States Naval Academy at ___MASK21___ in 1845 . He was a senior American diplomat in Europe . Among his best - known writings is the magisterial series , " History of the United States , from the Discovery of the American Continent ". Kinnaird Rowe McKee ( August 14 , 1929 -- December 30 , 2013 ) was an American United States Navy four star admiral who served as Director , Naval Nuclear Propulsion from 1982 to 1988 . He also served as Superintendent , ___MASK83___ from 1975 to 1978 . McKee was born in Louisville , Kentucky on August 14 , 1929 and graduated from the ___MASK83___ in 1951 . He served in the Pacific fleet destroyer USS Marshall ( DD - 676 ) during the Korean War and in eight submarines of the Atlantic fleet since that time . After completion of submarine training in 1953 , he served in three diesel - powered submarines : USS Picuda ( SS - 382 ) , USS Sea Cat ( SS - 399 ) , and USS Marlin ( SST - 2 ) . In 1956 , Admiral McKee was ordered to command of USS X - 1 , a small experimental submarine . He graduated from nuclear power training in 1958 and joined the commissioning crew of USS Skipjack ( SSN - 585 ) , the Navy ' s first high performance nuclear - powered attack submarine . Assignment as Executive Officer of USS Nautilus ( SSN - 571 ) followed in 1961 , then of the USS Sam Houston ( SSBN - 609 ) in late 1962 . After three deterrent patrols on the SAM HOUSTON , he served in the Naval Reactors Division of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1964 to 1966 . Admiral McKee served as Commanding Officer of the nuclear - powered attack submarine USS Dace ( SSN - 607 ) from 1966 through 1969 . The ship was twice awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and three times the Battle Efficiency Pennant for operations during that period . Following command of DACE , Admiral McKee served in the office of the Director , Navy Program Planning , where his responsibilities included strategic warfare , research and development , and submarine and anti - submarine warfare systems . In 1970 , he was assigned to the immediate staff of the Chief of Naval Operations , where he established the CNO Executive Panel . As Commander , Submarine Group Eight , Admiral McKee served as the NATO and U . S . submarine commander in the Mediterranean from 1973 to 1975 . On August 1 , 1975 , he became the forty - eighth Superintendent of the U . S . Naval Academy . Promoted to three - star rank in March 1978 , Admiral McKee served as Commander , Third Fleet with headquarters in Pearl Harbor . From there he was assigned as Director , Naval Warfare , Office of the Chief of Naval Operations concurrent with the expansion of the directorate from its original concentration on anti - submarine warfare to responsibility for all aspects of naval warfare . He developed and implemented the new organization . On February 1 , 1982 , he relieved Admiral Hyman G . Rickover as the Director , Naval Nuclear Propulsion . On March 2 , 1982 , he was confirmed by the U . S . Senate for promotion to four - star rank . Admiral McKee retired on October 31 , 1988 , after 41 years of service to his country . Admiral McKee ' s decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal , five awards of the Legion of Merit , and three awards of the Navy Unit Commendation . He died after a long illness on December 30 , 2013 . The ___MASK83___ ( also known as USNA , ___MASK21___ , or simply Navy ) is a four - year coeducational federal service academy in ___MASK21___ , Maryland , United States . Established on 10 October 1845 , under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft , it is the second oldest of the United States ' five service academies , and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps . The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County , east of Washington , D . C . and southeast of Baltimore . The entire campus is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites , buildings , and monuments . It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum , in Philadelphia , that served as the first ___MASK83___ from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in ___MASK21___ . Fort ___MASK16___ , in present - day ___MASK21___ , Maryland , was built in 1808 on the same site as an earlier American Revolutionary War fort of 1776 . Although intended to guard ___MASK21___ harbor from British attack , it never saw action during the War of 1812 . The United States Naval Academy acquired Fort ___MASK16___ and two other military bases from the United States Army on 19 October 1845 . The Academy used the structure for classrooms until its demolition in 1909 . The ___MASK75___ Naval Asylum is a complex of buildings in ___MASK75___ , ___MASK28___ . Built in 1827 as a hospital , it later housed the ___MASK75___ Naval School , served as a ___MASK9___ for retired sailors for the United States Navy from 1834 to 1976 , and was ultimately redeveloped as luxury condominiums . The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 . Naval warfare is combat in and on the ___MASK42___ , the ocean , or any other major body of water such as a large lake or wide river . The United States Marine Corps ( USMC ) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection , using the mobility of the United States Navy , by Congressional mandate , to deliver rapidly , combined - arms task forces on land , at ___MASK42___ , and in the air . The U . S . Marine Corps is one of the four armed service branches in the U . S . Department of Defense ( DoD ) and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States . The current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , the highest - ranking military officer in the U . S . armed forces , is a Marine Corps general . An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase , equipped with a full - length flight deck and facilities for carrying , arming , deploying , and recovering aircraft . Typically , it is the capital ship of a ___MASK3___ , as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations . Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets . Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear - powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes , strike aircraft , helicopters , and other types of aircraft . ___MASK75___ is the largest city in the Commonwealth of ___MASK28___ and the fifth - ___MASK29___ populous city in the United States , with an estimated population of 1 , 567 , 442 and more than 6 million in the seventh - largest metropolitan statistical area , . ___MASK75___ is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7 . 2 million people residing in the eighth - largest combined statistical area in the United States . A reserve ___MASK3___ is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed , and thus partially or fully decommissioned . A reserve ___MASK3___ is informally said to be " in mothballs " or " mothballed "; an equivalent expression in unofficial modern U . S . naval usage is " ghost ___MASK3___ ". In earlier times , and especially in British usage , these ships were said to be " laid up in ordinary ". The ___MASK78___ has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 , and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10 , Title 14 , Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code . The United States Navy ( USN ) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States . The U . S . Navy is the largest , ___MASK29___ capable navy in the world , with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage . The U . S . Navy has the world ' s largest aircraft carrier fleet , with ten in service , two in the reserve fleet , and three new carriers under construction . The service has 323 , 792 personnel on active duty and 108 , 515 in the Navy Reserve . It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3 , 700 aircraft in active service . ___MASK31___ is a state located in the Mid - Atlantic region of the United States , bordering ___MASK23___ , West ___MASK23___ , and ___MASK19___ , D . C . to its south and west ; Pennsylvania to its north ; and Delaware to its east . The state ' s largest city is Baltimore , and its capital is ___MASK21___ . Among its occasional nicknames are " Old Line State ", the " Free State ", and the " Chesapeake Bay State ". The state is named after Henrietta Maria of France , the wife of Charles I of England . The ___MASK24___ Bay is an estuary lying inland from the ___MASK90___ , and surrounded by the North American mainland to the west , and the Delmarva Peninsula to the east . It is the largest such body in the contiguous United States . The northern bay is within ___MASK31___ , the southern portion within ___MASK23___ , and is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states , as well as others . More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the bay ' s drainage basin , which covers parts of six states ( ___MASK81___ , Pennsylvania , Delaware , ___MASK31___ , ___MASK23___ and West ___MASK23___ ) plus all of the District of Columbia .