Annapolis, Maryland
The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845 on the site of Fort Severn, and now occupies an area of land reclaimed from the Severn River next to the Chesapeake Bay. The Annapolis area was the home of a VLF-transmitter called NSS Annapolis, which was used by the United States Navy to communicate with its Atlantic submarine fleet. Students that attend the Naval Academy are enrolled in school for four years with a following five year commitment to serving in the Marine Corps or Navy. There is a typical average of around 4,500 students enrolled.
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".