Holloway Halstead Frost

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1889, Holloway Halstead Frost was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate from the class of 1910 who went on to build a notable career as a naval officer, historian, and author. During World War I, he earned the Navy Cross for distinguished service connected with anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic.

Frost wrote widely on naval subjects, and his books covered both big-picture history and practical seamanship. Among the works most closely associated with him are We Build a Navy, On a Destroyer’s Bridge, and The Battle of Jutland, a study that remained influential enough to be remembered years after his death.

He died in 1935 at just 45 years old, but his reputation lasted well beyond his lifetime. Later tributes from the U.S. Naval Institute remembered him as one of its most prolific and important writers, and the destroyer escort USS Frost was named in his honor.