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Civil Engineer Corps History Photographs 

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Portrait of British-born architect Benjamin Latrobe. Best known for his design of the United States Capitol, Latrobe came to the United States in 1796. In 1803, the U.S. hired Latrobe as Surveyor for the Public Buildings of the United States, and...
Portrait of British-born architect Benjamin Latrobe.


The Bureau of Yards and Docks logo, created c. 1862. In 1862, Congress approved extending the Navy Department bureau system by amending the titles of three of the existing bureaus and adding three additional bureaus. The only modification to the ...
The Bureau of Yards and Docks logo, created c. 1862.


Commodore Lewis Warrington, the first Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks. From 1826 to 1830, Commodore Warrington served as one of the three Navy Board commissioners, a body charged with the administration of naval affairs. Afterwards, W...
Commodore Lewis Warrington, the first Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks.


The first Navy Civil Engineer Corps officers: B.F. Chandler, F.C. Prindle, W.P.S. Sanger, F.A. Hastings, and Charles Hastings, c. 1860s. The Navy created the Civil Engineer Corps on March 2, 1867. The original duties of the Civil Engineer Corps i...
The first Navy Civil Engineer Corps officers: B.F. Chandler, F.C. Prindle, W.P.S. Sanger, F.A. Hastings, and Charles Hastings, c. 1860s.


On April 7, 1898, President William McKinley broke precedence and appointed Mordecai Endicott to become the first member of the Civil Engineer Corps to command the Bureau of Yards and Docks. He was immediately elevated to the rank of Commodore an...
Rear Admiral Mordecai Endicott


Officer’s Mess Night or “Dining-in” at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D.C., December 4, 1913. The dinner was in honor of Commander Alan Parsons, CEC, USN, upon his detachment as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Next, he assumed ...
Officer’s Mess Night or “Dining-in” at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D.C., December 4, 1913.


Civil Engineer Corps logo after Navy Regulations changed the color from silver to gold, c. 1919. In 1905, the Civil Engineer Corps adopted two crossed silver sprigs, each composed of two live oak leaves and an acorn as their insignia in lieu of t...
Civil Engineer Corps logo after Navy Regulations changed the color from silver to gold, c. 1919.

Published: Fri Dec 09 16:17:58 EST 2016