US Navy Corpsman History
Ships Surgeon - answer Trained physician
Surgeons mate - answer usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
2 March 1799 - answer mandated all new warships be equipped with a cockpit
Loblolly boys - answer served a porridge called loblolly, officially a rate in 1814, used
coal to to heat tar used in hemorrhage control, used sand to help prevent slipping on
blood stained decks
Loblolly boys years of service – answer Quasi-War (1797-1800), Barbary War (1801-
1805)
John Wall - answer1st Loblolly Boy
John Domyn - answer1st loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson - answer1st African American Loblolly Boy
Surgeon Steward - answer Used from Age of Expansion to the end of Civil War (1820-
1865), first seen in navy pay charts in 1841
Nurse - answerApplied to junior medical personal (1861-1873)
Baymen - answerReplaced title of "Nurse", one who manned the sick bay (early 1870's-
1898)
Apothecary - answerPharmacist (1866-1898)
Apothecaries of Distinction - answerCornelius O'Leary & Robert Stanley
A new hospital corpsman - answerPresident McKinley on 17June1898 giving birth to the
USN Hospital Corps
Hospital Steward - answerChief Petty Officer
Hospital Apprentice 1st class - answerPetty Officer 3rd class
Robert Stanley - answerFirst HM to receive Model Of Honor
1st HM school - answerIn Portsmouth, VA. ON 15DEC1902, graduated 29 HM
Ships Surgeon - answer Trained physician
Surgeons mate - answer usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
2 March 1799 - answer mandated all new warships be equipped with a cockpit
Loblolly boys - answer served a porridge called loblolly, officially a rate in 1814, used
coal to to heat tar used in hemorrhage control, used sand to help prevent slipping on
blood stained decks
Loblolly boys years of service – answer Quasi-War (1797-1800), Barbary War (1801-
1805)
John Wall - answer1st Loblolly Boy
John Domyn - answer1st loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson - answer1st African American Loblolly Boy
Surgeon Steward - answer Used from Age of Expansion to the end of Civil War (1820-
1865), first seen in navy pay charts in 1841
Nurse - answerApplied to junior medical personal (1861-1873)
Baymen - answerReplaced title of "Nurse", one who manned the sick bay (early 1870's-
1898)
Apothecary - answerPharmacist (1866-1898)
Apothecaries of Distinction - answerCornelius O'Leary & Robert Stanley
A new hospital corpsman - answerPresident McKinley on 17June1898 giving birth to the
USN Hospital Corps
Hospital Steward - answerChief Petty Officer
Hospital Apprentice 1st class - answerPetty Officer 3rd class
Robert Stanley - answerFirst HM to receive Model Of Honor
1st HM school - answerIn Portsmouth, VA. ON 15DEC1902, graduated 29 HM
