Board of Inspection and Survey
The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) is a United States Navy organization whose purpose is to inspect and assess the material condition of U.S. Navy vessels.
An inspector assesses an anchorage test in the forecastle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70).
Cargo netting aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is inspected.
Inspectors discuss the process of counting the 6000+ float coats aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).
Inspectors check USS Kitty Hawk's (CV-63) counter-measure wash-down system.
David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War.
Porter in the 1860s, during the American Civil War
~ David Farragut ~ David Dixon Porter ~Issue of 1937
Perry and Porter attacked and took San Juan Bautista (now Villahermosa) in the Second Battle of Tabasco.
Porter, on the right, in 1860. The other officers are Sidney Smith Lee and Samuel F. Du Pont.
