Robert Erwin Johnson (3 February 1923 – 28 January 2008, aged 84) was a University of Alabama professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard".[1]
^Obituary in Argonautica: The Newsletter of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, vol XXV, no. 2 (April 2008), pp. 5-7.