Graduate of the Naval War College, class of 1894.Commanding “USS Alert” April 1893-October 1893. Navy Yard New York, December 1889 to August 1891.“Vermont” (a receiving and store ship) 1885-8 “USS Enterprise” (a barque-rigged screw sloop), N.Promoted to Lieutenant Commander May 1881. Commanding “USS Montauk” (a single turreted Passaic-class monitor), North Atlantic (N.“USS Adams” (third rate) (a wooden screw steamer) South Atlantic Station, 1876-8.Commissioned as Lieutenant March 29, 1869. Apprenticeship “USS Portsmouth,” (a wooden sloop of war ship) 1867-9.West India Squadron from 1865-67, promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866.He spent his childhood in town, attending New Castle schools.īook was appointed as Acting Midshipman at the Naval Academy on Novemat the age of 16 and was graduated from Annapolis in 1865. George Milton Book was born in New Castle to Col. By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) circa 1865
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