Farragut's Press

Ever since June of 2012, i have been helping publish a small newsletter for the Mare Island Museum at the former Mare Island Navy Shipyard. For something that started as an accident due to my mostly directionless sense of direction, the quarterly newsletter "Farragut's Press", has been something of a looked forward to enjoyment for me.
"Farragut's Press" is largely written by Mrs. Barbara Davis, a former Department of Defense educator who has, in her role as teacher on military bases, traveled the world and seen the vast diversity that so many of us find hard to grasp.
The setting of Mare Island provides Barbara with a treasure trove of stories and facts to populate "Farragut's Press". Take, for example, the name of the newsletter, "Farragut's Press". On the surface, it is not hard to deduce that the newsletter was named after the officer who was tasked with the founding of Mare Island Navy Shipyard, then Captain, David Farragut. However, digging deeper, one realizes the myriad of tales one could tell simply based on the life and career of Admiral (his final rank) David Farragut, for example, the fact that we are in his debt for the phrase "damn the torpedoes!" (uttered in the spurring of the ships under his command in the heated Battle of Mobile Bay) and the founding of the rank Admiral (well, the Congress really, but he was the first Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral and, finally, Admiral, of the US Navy. Previous to the creation of the rank of Admiral, the most senior rank in the US Navy was that of a Captain) in the US Navy.
Every three months of so, i look forward to the articles Barbara will send through. Each time i put together the newsletter, my knowledge base of the US Navy and of the US Submarine Service, especially (Mare Island was one of the shipyards responsible for populating the US WWII Submarine fleet and, later, the US Nuclear Submarine fleet), is thus increased.
So, if you are also a fan of US Navy history, especially the bits of it associated with the first Navy Shipyard founded in the US West, jog your mouse to the right of your screen and there, ye shall find, a link to "Farragut's Press".