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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a naval historian, widely regarded as an expert in all things Navy, but he was, in fact, more inept on board a ship than a recruit at Great Mistakes on the first day.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/10\/14\/alfred-thayer-mahan-and-his-vain-quest-to-keep-ships-straight\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n Not only was CAPT Mahan a poor seaman, he was also afraid of being run into and had the attention span of a gnat when aboard ship. \u00a0He wrecked more ships and had more collisions than the total to date since WWII ended. He may have done a great deal to help build the Navy and bring it into the modern ear, but he was out of his depth when sent to sea.<\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 He was perhaps the most celebrated naval historian of his era, an influential promoter of United States naval and commercial expansion during America\u2019s rise to world power in the late nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As the author of numerous articles and books, including the landmark\u00a0The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Alfred Thayer Mahan<\/a>\u00a0was widely regarded as a brilliant naval theorist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n From his writings, readers would never have guessed, however, that the renowned champion of the United States Navy hated the sea, and while an active-duty naval officer, lived in constant fear of ocean storms and colliding ships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mahan\u2019s fear of accidents at sea was not unfounded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n During a 40-year naval career that began as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1856, he was involved in numerous maritime mishaps. – article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This is stuff you can’t make up. Anyone who can crash a gunship into a moored barge is someone special. As long as he stayed ashore, he was fine, although he did not like having to teach knotting rope, a bosun’s skill, to Academy students. He was frequently so busy watching other people that he missed the boat. He probably would have plowed a ship into those breakwater pilings in the photo above.\u00a0 But when he took a desk job, he was one of those who pushed the Navy into the modern era of naval warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n