Charles Dwight Sigsbee
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Charles Dwight Sigsbee (January 16, 1845 - July 13, 1923) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He is well known as captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana harbor, Cuba, in 1898. The explosion set off the Spanish American War.
Sigsbee, born at Albany, New York, and educated at The Albany Academy, was appointed acting midshipman on 16 July 1862. He was commissioned rear admiral on 10 August 1903.
Sigsbee served aboard Monongahela, Wyoming, and Shenandoah from 1863 to 1869 when he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy and, in 1871, to the Hydrographic Office. He was in command of various ships from 1873 to 1891 and served as a hydrographer in the Bureau of Navigation from 1893 to 1897. Sigsbee commanded St. Paul in 1898 at the Second Battle of San Juan and Texas until 1900.
In February of that year he was appointed Chief Intelligence Officer of the Office of Naval Intelligence, succeeding Cmdr. Richardson Clover; he held this post until April 1903 when he was succeeded by Cmdr. Seaton Schroeder.
He assumed command of the South Atlantic Squadron in 1904 and the Second Division, North Atlantic Squadron in 1905.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee used USS Brooklyn as his flagship from June 7, 1905, when she sailed for Cherbourg, France, where the remains of the late John Paul Jones were received aboard and brought to America for interment at the United States Naval Academy.
Admiral Sigsbee retired from the Navy in 1907 and died in New York. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His grandson, Charles Dwight Sigsbee III, First Lieutenant, United States Army, was buried next to him in June 20, 1956.
USS Sigsbee (DD-502) was named for him.
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[edit] Dates of Rank
- Midshipman - September 27, 1859
- Passed Midshipman - 1863
- Master - May 10, 1866
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| October 3, 1863 | Never Held | April 21, 1867 | March 12, 1868 | May 11, 1882 | March 21, 1897 | Unknown | August 10, 1903 |
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- The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, Sixth Edition, 1889, by Lewis Randolph Hamersly. Charles D. Sigsbee. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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| Preceded by Richardson Clover |
Head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (Chief Intelligence Officer) February 1900–April 1903 |
Succeeded by Seaton Schroeder |
