United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, east of Washington, D.C. and southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus (known to insiders as "the Yard") is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis.
École Navale
The "École Navale", created in 1830, was originally located onboard vessels harboured in Brest, almost all of which were nicknamed Borda (from the name of Jean-Charles de Borda, a famous French scientist of the 18th century). The first vessel to house the École Navale was named "Orion"; it was then replaced in 1840 by the "Commerce-de-Paris", a wooden, three-decked ship. This ship had an inappropriate name for a naval academy, so it was renamed "Borda". In 1863, the academy was transferred to the "Valmy" (the second "Borda"), then, in 1890, to the "Intrépide" (the third "Borda"), and in 1913, to the "Duguay-Trouin" (1879), which had been a school vessel for those applying to the Navy between 1900 and 1912. With the exceptions of the "Orion" and the "Duguay-Trouin", each of these vessels was still christened as "Borda".