Speaker Resources

2019 National Congress - Boston, Massachusetts

22 – 27 October 2019

 

The Naval Order’s 2019 Congress was held from Tuesday, October 22nd through Sunday, October 27th at the Constitution Inn in Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the Naval Order and homeport of our honorary flagship, USS Constitution.

The following Speaker Resources were provided for additional information.

RE: The Continental Navy and The American Revolution

CAPT Marc Liebman, USN (Ret.)
Author, Speaker

“Way back in November 2018 I started posting interesting entries on my blog about the Continental Navy and the American Revolution. Ultimately, there were 37 of them. All came from the research I was doing as I wrote and edited the first draft of Raider of the Scottish Coast. One is about the first map of the Gulf Stream. The cartographer called it the Gulph Stream and his name is Benjamin Franklin. His chart was based on input form Colonial fisherman and merchant captains. He showed it to his employer -Royal Mail - and the Royal Navy and both dismissed it as "unreliable information from American fisherman" despite the fact that American merchant seaman using it need two weeks less to cross the Atlantic than their British counterparts.”