query: place_of_death kinnaird r. mckee
supports: Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area, . Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States. George Bancroft (October 3, 1800  January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state, at the national and international level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, "History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent". Kinnaird Rowe McKee ( August 14 , 1929 -- December 30 , 2013 ) was an American United States Navy four star admiral who served as Director , Naval Nuclear Propulsion from 1982 to 1988 . He also served as Superintendent , United States Naval Academy from 1975 to 1978 . McKee was born in Louisville , Kentucky on August 14 , 1929 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1951 . He served in the Pacific fleet destroyer USS Marshall ( DD - 676 ) during the Korean War and in eight submarines of the Atlantic fleet since that time . After completion of submarine training in 1953 , he served in three diesel - powered submarines : USS Picuda ( SS - 382 ) , USS Sea Cat ( SS - 399 ) , and USS Marlin ( SST - 2 ) . In 1956 , Admiral McKee was ordered to command of USS X- 1 , a small experimental submarine . He graduated from nuclear power training in 1958 and joined the commissioning crew of USS Skipjack ( SSN - 585 ) , the Navy 's first high performance nuclear - powered attack submarine . Assignment as Executive Officer of USS Nautilus ( SSN - 571 ) followed in 1961 , then of the USS Sam Houston ( SSBN - 609 ) in late 1962 . After three deterrent patrols on the SAM HOUSTON , he served in the Naval Reactors Division of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1964 to 1966 . Admiral McKee served as Commanding Officer of the nuclear - powered attack submarine USS Dace ( SSN - 607 ) from 1966 through 1969 . The ship was twice awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and three times the Battle Efficiency Pennant for operations during that period . Following command of DACE , Admiral McKee served in the office of the Director , Navy Program Planning , where his responsibilities included strategic warfare , research and development , and submarine and anti-submarine warfare systems . In 1970 , he was assigned to the immediate staff of the Chief of Naval Operations , where he established the CNO Executive Panel . As Commander , Submarine Group Eight , Admiral McKee served as the NATO and U.S. submarine commander in the Mediterranean from 1973 to 1975 . On August 1 , 1975 , he became the forty - eighth Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy . Promoted to three - star rank in March 1978 , Admiral McKee served as Commander , Third Fleet with headquarters in Pearl Harbor . From there he was assigned as Director , Naval Warfare , Office of the Chief of Naval Operations concurrent with the expansion of the directorate from its original concentration on anti-submarine warfare to responsibility for all aspects of naval warfare . He developed and implemented the new organization . On February 1 , 1982 , he relieved Admiral Hyman G. Rickover as the Director , Naval Nuclear Propulsion . On March 2 , 1982 , he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for promotion to four - star rank . Admiral McKee retired on October 31 , 1988 , after 41 years of service to his country . Admiral McKee 's decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal , five awards of the Legion of Merit , and three awards of the Navy Unit Commendation . He died after a long illness on December 30 , 2013 . The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage. The U.S. Navy has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on active duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 aircraft in active service . The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection, using the mobility of the United States Navy, by Congressional mandate, to deliver rapidly, combined-arms task forces on land, at sea, and in the air. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the four armed service branches in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces, is a Marine Corps general. The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, east of Washington, D.C. and southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean, and surrounded by the North American mainland to the west, and the Delmarva Peninsula to the east. It is the largest such body in the contiguous United States. The northern bay is within Maryland, the southern portion within Virginia, and is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others. More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the bay's drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) plus all of the District of Columbia. A reserve fleet is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed, and thus partially or fully decommissioned. A reserve fleet is informally said to be "in mothballs" or "mothballed"; an equivalent expression in unofficial modern U.S. naval usage is "ghost fleet". In earlier times, and especially in British usage, these ships were said to be "laid up in ordinary". The Philadelphia Naval Asylum is a complex of buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1827 as a hospital, it later housed the Philadelphia Naval School, served as a home for retired sailors for the United States Navy from 1834 to 1976, and was ultimately redeveloped as luxury condominiums. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. The United States of America has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10, and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10, Title 14, Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code. An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft.  Maryland is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are "Old Line State", the "Free State", and the "Chesapeake Bay State". The state is named after Henrietta Maria of France, the wife of Charles I of England.  Fort Severn, in present-day Annapolis, Maryland, was built in 1808 on the same site as an earlier American Revolutionary War fort of 1776. Although intended to guard Annapolis harbor from British attack, it never saw action during the War of 1812. The United States Naval Academy acquired Fort Severn and two other military bases from the United States Army on 19 October 1845. The Academy used the structure for classrooms until its demolition in 1909.
candidates: annapolis arundel atlantic ocean baltimore bancroft chesapeake chesapeake bay delaware england fleet george home maryland most ocean pennsylvania philadelphia sea severn united states naval academy united states of america west virginia
answer: annapolis