James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a Royal Navy officer. As a volunteer, he fought at the Battle of Groix, at the Battle of the Glorious First of June and at the Battle of Cape St Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars and then, as a midshipman, served under Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. Gordon became commanding officer of the 28-gun frigate which took part of a hard-fought action between three British ships and the combined forces of a
James Bond (naval officer) James Bond (naval officer) Commander James Bond (4 October 1945 – 8 April 2016) was an Australian navy officer for the Royal Australian Navy. He was best known for having discovered and charted a new deep-water shipping channel through the Great Barrier Reef, the Hydrographers Passage, which was 250 miles shorter than the previous route. Graham James Bond was born in Adelaide, Australia, on 4 October 1945. He was only ever called Graham by his mother. Bond was in charge of the survey ship HMAS "Flinders", a Royal Australian Navy vessel, from 1980. He was responsible for surveying the coasts