Bruce Linder is a naval historian and former naval officer who commanded a guided missile frigate and two major navy shore bases. He published San Diego's Navy with the Naval Institute Press in 2001. He is a resident of Coronado, California, where he works as a technology consultant.

Articles by Bruce Linder

U.S. NAVY

Norfolk vs. San Diego

By Bruce Linder
October 2005
The two ports are disparate in many ways, including geography, climate, and history. But they stand as nearly identical capitals of U.S. Navy power.
Stanhope C. Ring flying in a Curtiss F6C-3 Falcon over San Diego ca. 1928

The Original Ring of Fire

By Bruce Linder
August 1999
Stanhope Cotton Ring was born a Navy junior in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1902. His father, James Andrew Ring, had begun his naval service as a ship's clerk on board the ...

The Garcias and Brookes'. One Last Look

By Commander Bruce R. Linder, U. S. Navy
April 1989
Having led the U. S. Navy’s surface forces into the current era of antisubmarine warfare, some retiring Garcias and Brookes now are being leased to Third World navies.

Book Reviews

Reviewed by A.D. Baker III, Commander Bruce R. Linder, U. S. Navy, Commander Robert E. Bublitz, U. S. Navy (Retired), Alfred M. Beck
January 1989
Ships of the Victorian Navy Conrad Dixon. Southampton, England: Ashford Press, 1987. Distributed in the U. S. by Sheridan House, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, NY. 112 pp. Illus. Bib. $32.50 ($29.25) ...

Books by Bruce Linder