It is by no means enough that an officer of the navy should be a capable mariner… He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, and charity." It is by no means enough that an officer of the navy should be a capable mariner… He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, and charity."JOHN PAUL JONES 1775 Returning to deck, I looked again at the surroundings, already hating the bright starkness of the terrain; this would be a terrible place to die, I thought, and wondered what morbid fantasy had brou

