Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — Admiral Maasie Dead. [ARTICLE]

Admiral Maasie Dead.

London, July 21.—Admiral Thomas Leeke Massie, known as the father of the British navy, is dead. He was born in 1802, entered the navy in 1818 and served at Navarino, Beyrout, Sidon and St. Jean d’Acre, and in China and the Black sea.