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Contact Info
Home Town Reno, NV
Last Address Stonington, CT
Date of Passing Nov 01, 1975
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
James Fife Jr. retired from the Navy in August 1955, and was promoted upon retirement to full admiral. In retirement, he served as the Director of the Mystic Seaport Museum in Stonington, Connecticut. During his tenure at Mystic Seaport he oversaw a great expansion of the museum's exhibits and the refloating of the historic whaling ship Charles W. Morgan.
He bequeathed his estate in Stonington to the U.S. Navy, which turned it into a recreational area. The park is located at 571 Stonington Road (U.S. Route 1). A commemorative plaque is located on the property.
Fife Hall, a navigation training facility at Naval Submarine Base New London is named in his honor. Also, the USS Fife (DD-991), commissioned 31 May 1980 and decommissioned in 2003, was named in his honor.
