Samuel Robison
Samuel Shelburne Robison ( born May 10, 1867 in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA, † November 20, 1952 in Glendale, California ), American admiral and 1925-1926 Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet.
Life
Robison occurred on 4 September 1884 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, a. After its completion in 1888, he served two years as a midshipman on Omaha on the Asiatic Station and was on 1 July 1890 Ensign ( di -Lieutenant ) appointed.
In 1891 he moved, still on the Asiatic Station, on the Boston and served from 1893 on the Thetis, 1895 until he was ordered to the Navy Yard Mare Iceland. In 1896 he returned to the Asiatic Station and the Boston. In August 1899 he became the League Iceland Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ordered. On September 15, 1900, he went on board the USS Alabama and was transferred two years later to the torpedo boat destroyer USS Hull. From September 1904 to July 1906 he worked in the Bureau of Equipment in Washington, DC and then got back on board command, first as a navigator on the USS Tennessee, then as a first officer on the USS Pennsylvania.
After another period in the Bureau of Engineering, he assumed on 25 October 1911, the command of the USS Cincinnati, a ship of the Asiatic Fleet. After his return to the United States in April 1914, he was Commanding Officer of the USS Jupiter. On 1 July 1914 he was promoted to Captain. He remained on the Jupiter until 8 August.
On October 12, 1915, he took command of the USS South Carolina and stayed until after the United States entered the First World War (6 April 1917) on this item. From July 1917 to September 1918 he was commander of the Atlantic submarine fleet (Atlantic Submarine Force ) and additional inspector general of submarines. For his services during this time he was awarded the Navy Cross and appointed by George V to Companion of the Bath (CB).
In October 1918 he took over the command of the 3rd Squadron of Patrol Force and was in the next month in addition commander in the Marine District of Brest in France. In November, he was appointed U.S. Representative to the Commission, which had to enforce the Marine Angele genes characteristics of the Armistice with Germany ( Naval Armistice Commission). After his return to the United States in March 1919 he became commander of the naval base in Boston, Massachusetts ( Boston Navy Yard ) and was on June 3, 1921 to October 21, 1922 to the Military Governor of Santo Domingo.
From December 1922 to June 1923 Robison was a member of the General Board of the Navy and was on 30 June 1923 the temporary rank of Admiral Commanding Admiral of the Battle Fleet ( Battle Fleet ) and from August 1925 to 1926, with the USS Seattle flagship, Commander the United States Fleet ( CINCUS ). His chief of staff as CINCUS was the future 5-star Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He then became commander of the 13th Naval District in the permanent rank of rear admiral. From June 1928 until his retirement in June 1931, he was superintendent of the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
After his Zurruhesetzung Robison was for some years superintendent of the Admiral Farragut Academy in Toms - River, New Jersey.
Samuel Robison was in 1898 with Mary Louise Clark ( 1870-1940 ), the daughter of Admiral Charles E. Clark ( 1843-1922 ), married. He is buried with his wife in the family grave Clark Robison on the Arlington National Cemetery.
The 1959 laid the keel of destroyer USS Robison is named after Admiral Robison.
Works
- With Mary L. Robison: A History of Naval Tactics From 1530 to 1930, The Evolution of Tactical Maxims. . United States Naval Institute, Annapolis MD 1942.
- Admiral (United States Navy )
- Companion of the Order of the Bath
- Americans
- Born in 1867
- Died in 1952
- Man