Ben Moreell

Admiral Ben Moreell (September 14, 1892 – July 30, 1978) was the chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks and of the Civil Engineer Corps. Best known to the American public as the Father of the Navy's Seabees, Moreell's life spanned eight decades, two world wars, a great depression and the evolution of the United States as a superpower. He was a distinguished Naval Officer, a brilliant engineer, an industrial giant and articulate national spokesman.

Early life

As a young civil engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree from Washington University, St. Louis (1913), he chose to defend his country by joining the ranks of the Navy during World War I. He was commissioned in June 1917 as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps and spent the next 30 years in the service of his country.

First World War

During the First World War, he was stationed in the Azores, there getting to know an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin D. Roosevelt, and afterwards served at Navy yards and installations in Massachusetts, Haiti, Virginia, and Washington.

Ben Moreell (steamer)

Ben Moreell was the name of a lake freighter on the North American Great Lakes.

In 1958 she collided with the ferry Ashtabula in the harbor of Ashtabula, Ohio.

In 1977 she was renamed Alisdair Guthrie.

References

Ben Moreell (disambiguation)

Ben Moreell (1892–1978) was a 20th Century USN admiral.

Ben Moreell may also refer to: Ben Moreell (steamer), a Great Lakes vessel, that collided with and sunk the ferry Ashtabula