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WELCOME ABOARD

Welcome to the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. The New York Commandery hosts a number of educational and social events throughout the year, and builds comradery between its companions in support of the naval services. Membership in the Naval Order is by invitation only. If you have an interest, join us at one of our events.

MISSION STATEMENT

To encourage research and writing on naval and maritime subjects, preserve documents, portraits and other records of prominent figures deeds and memories of our naval and maritime history, and through fellowship of our members advance the Naval Order's unselfish service and worthy aims for the security and enduring well-being of our country. To foster, among all American citizens, informed interest in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, with the understanding that their efficiency is essential to national security and that readiness to make victory in war certain and speedy will deter aggression and minimize dangers to world peace.

HISTORY OF THE USS NEW YORK

Since 1776, there have been seven US Navy warships named USS New York. The current USS New York (LPD 21) gained national fame, having some of it built from steel remains of the collapsed World Trade Center. Other ships of this name have played a part in the United States naval history.

Read about it here.

Monday, 6 June 2022

Reception: 1130hrs

LuncheonL. 1200hrs

Racquet & Tennis Club

370 Park Avenue (at 53rd Street)

New York City

(Gentlemen are required to wear jacket and tie.)

My Father’s War, 1942-45: From Struggling Architect to Destroyer Officer

Guest Speaker and Companion

Richard F. Snow

Winner of the 2017 Morison Award

Richard Snow was born in Manhattan in 1947 and grew up in the suburb of Bronxville. When he graduated from Bronxville High School, in 1965, he got a summer job at American Heritage magazine.

They asked him back the next summer, and every one thereafter until he graduated from Columbia College as that useless creature, an English major (albeit with a minor in history).

He came on the Heritage staff full time in 1970, and spent the next four decades there, finishing up as editor and chief of the magazine. He’s been fortunate in his work: he was always interested in American history, and got to spend every day with it. While he was at Heritage he published a book of poetry, two informal histories--one about Coney Island, the other on American railroading--and a couple of historical novels.

He has served as a consultant for historical motion pictures--among them Glory --and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ Civil War, and Ric Burns’s award-winning PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote.

During his time at Heritage the magazine was nominated for a dozen National Magazine Awards for General Excellence, and won three of them. When the publication died, in 2008, he sold to Scribner a book on the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, followed it with a biography of the fascinating and quite terrible Henry Ford, and a book about the Civil War ironclads in the Battle of Hampton Roads (which to his surprise and deep gratification got chosen for the Morison Award), and, most recently, a book about Walt Disney developing his immensely influential amusement park in the mid-1950s

Naval Order of the United States New York Commandery

WELCOME ABOARD

MISSION STATEMENT

HISTORY OF THE USS NEW YORK

Monday, 6 June 2022

My Father’s War, 1942-45: From Struggling Architect to Destroyer Officer

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New York Commandery Blessing