USS James M. Gilliss (AMCU-13)
USS James M. Gilliss (AMCU-13/YMS-262) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass named after James Melville Gilliss, a US naval officer credited with establishing the US Naval Observatory.
USS James M. Gilliss (AMCU-13)
James Melville Gilliss was an astronomer, United States naval officer and founder of the United States Naval Observatory.
James Melville Gilliss
Santa Lucia Hill, site of Gilliss' observatory in Santiago, Chile.