General Lance (@LancesLegion)
A Reminder to those that have historical amnesia:Russia and the United States have long been frens.Our relationship starts with our founding. The father of the United States Navy, Admiral John Paul Jones, would serve the Tsar of Russia after the Revolution...
They used the title Captain.
The historian, Willis J. Abbot, in his well known work, The Naval History of the United States, makes the following reference to Captain Manley: In October, 1775, Congress fitted out and ordered to sea, a number of small vessels. Of these the first to sail was the Lee under command of Captain John Manley, whose honorable name, won in the opening years of the Revolution, fairly entitled him to the station of the father of the American Navy.
Ah thank you! This will be another interesting book to look at
https://www.amazon.com/Naval-History-United-States/dp/1346541175