<Li> Hargrove Skipper Bowles (1919--1986), American politician and businessman </Li> <Li> Klemen Skipper Clement (c. 1484--1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion </Li> <Li> Francis Gidney (1890--1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898--1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University </Li>

Where did the navy term skipper come from