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The classic work in this range is probably E.E. Smith's Lensman series. It's been reported more than once that the U.S. navy came up with a system of command and control at sea inspired by Smith's account of space fleet command and control; I'm not sure that that's historically authentic, but it at least suggests that there are clear analogies. "Space is an ocean" is an old trope.

You might also like to track down Bullard of the Space Patrol, by Malcolm Jameson. Its stories of interplanetary adventure and combat are very clearly modeled directly on naval customs and traditions of the 1930s and 1940s.