Franklin Jeremiah Drake

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Franklin Jeremiah Drake (4 March, 1846 – 30 January, 1929) served in the United States Navy.

Life & Career

Franklin Drake was born in New York on 4 March, 1846 and entered the U.S. Navy on 23 February, 1863, at the height of the American Civil War.[1]

Drake was promoted to the rank of Commander on 3 March, 1899.[2] He was appointed to command the monitor Monterey on 17 March, 1901.[3]

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Footnotes

  1. Register of Officers, 1903. pp. 12-13.
  2. Register of Officers, 1903. pp. 12-13.
  3. Register of Officers, 1903. p. 12.
  4. List and Station, July 1898. p. 8.
  5. Register of Officers, 1903. p. 12.
  6. Register of Officers, 1906. p. 8.