| Horatio Hornblower begins his saga as a young midshipman in the British navy, during the Napoleonic era. |
| He was fifteen and a midshipman on the HMS Boyne, Admiral Neale's flagship. |
| A midshipman in the U.S. Navy at sixteen, young Porter commanded his first ship at thirty-three during the Mexican War. |
| We also read an article about how George Washington almost became a midshipman in England's Royal Navy in his early years. |
| He joined the Navy and became a midshipman in 1915 on the ship HMS Collingwood. |
| She's a college student who's also a midshipman in the Reserve Officer Training Corps on campus. |
