The United States Navy will honor the memory of Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy (1792-1862) who rose from cabin boy to the Navy’s highest rank during his long career. Ceremonies dedicating a commemorative plaque for Levy will be held Jan. 9 at the Norfolk Naval Station Chapel Center. The plaque was donated by the United Jewish Federation of Norfolk and Virginia Beach and commemorates the naming of the chapel for Levy in Dec. 1959. It is the first permanent Jewish chapel on a US military installation. Levy was born in Philadelphia and went to sea at the age of 10. His first command was the sloop-of-war Macedonian. Levy is recognized as the leading protagonist of the law which outlawed punishment by flogging in the Navy.
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