Eternal Father please bless and keep our brothers who are at sea this Fine Navy Day in the performance of their duties, put up a hedge of protection around and about them, and bring them home safely. Amen...
A while back, I served the funeral Mass for a parishoner who was a former Coast Guardsman. The Navy Hymn was played toward the end of his Mass. Pretty hard to keep from shedding a tear for him and so many shipmates of mine who've "crossed the bar".
MY Favorite Hymn every Sunday while attending the US Naval Academy in Pensacola, FL ... Last Century !!! ... One of 13 that so Proudly, had Graduated !!! ...
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 eleven in service, two in the reserve fleet, and two new carriers under construction. The service has 322,421 personnel on active duty and 107,577 in the Navy Reserve. It has 276 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of June 2017. The U.S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a major role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy and seizing control of its rivers. It played the central role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U.S. Navy maintains a sizable global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It is a blue-water navy with the ability to project force onto the littoral regions of the world, engage in forward deployments during peacetime and rapidly respond to regional crises, making it a frequent actor in U.S. foreign and military policy. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, which is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Navy. The Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) is a four-star admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy.
This song is officially titled "Eternal father, strong to save" and the original hymn was written in 1860 by William Whiting, a churchman from Winchester, United Kingdom. He grew up near the ocean on the coasts of England, and at the age of thirty-five had felt his life spared by God when a violent storm nearly claimed the ship he was travelling on, instilling a belief in God's command over the rage and calm of the sea. It is a British naval hymn used by the US navy, it is not American.
@@opieutt9038 Your crass comment and your Navy trying to 'own' what clearly is a British hymn for all seafarers is a very Yank thing to do, cockwomble!
They played this when the challenger astronauts were lay to rest rather at sea or the cold vacume of space eternal father bless all sailors and astronauts and cosomonauts
Any sailors who served on the uss wasp.cv7 my grandfather was on the the mighty stinger she isnt forgotten she was found and so was her sister ship the hornet
Respectfully, "Eternal Father" ("The Navy Hymn") belongs to no one country or even to one Navy. It is sung by navies and found in Protestant Hymnals worldwide. It was written by an Englishman in 1860 and set to music by an Anglican minister.
Why is this known as the "US Navy Hymn"? It was composed by an Englishman and is used by a number of navies as their hymn. In these cases it is just referred to as "The Naval Hymn". No one else professes ownership of this piece of music, so why does the US Navy?
It's not known as the U.S. Navy Hymn. It's called the Navy Hymn and is tradition because it was sung at the Naval Academy at Sunday Services. The U.S. Navy does not profess ownership of the song.
