John Adams and the Birth of the U. S. Navy

Clay Maitland

GUY E.C. (Clay) Maitland has worked in the shipping industry since 1968; he graduated from Columbia College, where he majored in American History in 1964. He is now a Maritime Lawyer practicing in New York City. He has been involved in International Maritime Law since 1968, including the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and the International Maritime Organization in London.

Clay has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the State University of New York Maritime College in 2006, and was decorated with the U.S. Coast Guard’s Distinguished Public Service Award in 2010, by the Commandant of the Coast Guard.