Gordon Ellyson Abercrombie
The son and grandson of naval officers and a naval officer himself, Gordon Abercrombie has spent most of his life at sea and much of it sailing the eastern Mediterranean aboard both warships and his own 44-foot sailboat. A Royal Navy sea cadet early in life at Plymouth, England, he is also a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he earned a degree in Naval Science. There followed nine years of naval service much of it with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the...

