James Bond (naval Officer)
Commander (rank), Commander Graham James Bond (4 October 1945 – 8 April 2016) was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He was best known for having discovered and charted a new deep-water shipping channel through the Great Barrier Reef, the Hydrographers Passage, which was 250 miles shorter than the previous route. Early life Graham James Bond was born in Adelaide, Australia, on 4 October 1945.A character built mapping the reefs.
''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 May 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016. He was only ever called Graham by his mother.

Career

Bond was in charge of the survey ship , a Royal Australian Navy vessel, from 1980. He was responsible for surveying the coasts of Queensland and Papua New Guinea for the next thr ...
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Commander James Bond RAN
Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In several countries this naval rank is termed frigate captain. Commander is also a generic term for an officer commanding any armed forces unit, for example "platoon commander", "brigade commander" and "squadron commander". In the police, terms such as "borough commander" and "incident commander" are used. Commander as a naval and air force rank Commander is a rank used in navies but is very rarely used as a rank in army, armies. The title, originally "master and commander", originated in the 18th century to describe naval officers who commanded ships of war too large to be commanded by a lieutenant but too small to warrant the assignment of a post-captain and (before about 1770) a sailing master; the commanding officer served as his own master. In practice, these were usually unrated sloop-of-war, s ...
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