Robert C. Peniston commanded a battleship that provided gunfire support during which war ?
Robert C. Peniston Robert C. Peniston (October 25, 1922 – August 2, 2014) was a career United States Navy officer who rose to the rank of captain and commanded the battleship USS "New Jersey".
HMS General Craufurd (1915) HMS "General Craufurd" was a First World War Royal Navy "Lord Clive"-class monitor named for General Robert Craufurd, commander of the British Light Division during the early years of the Peninsula War who was killed in action at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy ever to be so named. Her 12 in main battery was stripped from obsolete battleships of the "Majestic" class.