Samuel Robison

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Samuel Shelburne Robison

Samuel Shelburne Robison (born May 10, 1867 in Juniata County , Pennsylvania , USA , † November 20, 1952 in Glendale , California ), American admiral and from 1925 to 1926 commander in chief of the US fleet.

Life

Robison entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland on September 4, 1884 . After graduation in 1888, he served two years as a midshipman on the Omaha at the Asian station and was appointed Ensign (the first lieutenant in the sea) on July 1, 1890 .

In 1891 he moved to the Boston , still on the Asian station, and served on the Thetis from 1893 until he was ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1895 . In 1896 he returned to the Asian Station and Boston . In August 1899, he was assigned to the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . On September 15, 1900, he boarded the USS Alabama and two years later was transferred 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 received an on-board command again, first as a navigator on the USS Tennessee , then as first officer on the USS Pennsylvania .

After another time in the Bureau of Engineering, he took command of the USS Cincinnati , a ship in the Asian Fleet, on October 25, 1911 . On his return to the United States in April 1914, he became the commanding officer of the USS Jupiter . On July 1, 1914, he was promoted to sea captain. He stayed on Jupiter until August 8th .

On October 12, 1915, he took command of the USS South Carolina and remained in this post until after the USA entered the First World War (April 6, 1917). From July 1917 to September 1918 he was commander of the Atlantic Submarine Force and also inspector general of the submarines. For his services during this time he was awarded the Navy Cross and named Companion of the Bath (CB) by George V.

In October 1918 he took over command of the 3rd Squadron of the Patrol Force and the next month he was also in command of the Brest Maritime District in France . In November he was appointed US representative in the commission responsible for enforcing the naval affairs of the armistice treaty with Germany (Naval Armistice Commission). After his return to the United States in March 1919, he became the commandant of the naval base in Boston , Massachusetts ( Boston Navy Yard ) and was military governor of Santo Domingo from June 3, 1921 to October 21, 1922 .

From December 1922 to June 1923, Robison was a member of the General Board of the Navy and on June 30, 1923, with the temporary rank of admiral, was Commanding Admiral of the Battle Fleet and from August 1925 to 1926, with the USS Seattle as flagship , Commander-in-Chief the United States Fleet (CINCUS). His chief of staff as CINCUS was the future 5-star Admiral Chester W. Nimitz . Then he was in the permanent rank of Rear Admiral Commander in the 13th Naval District. From June 1928 until his retirement in June 1931, he was Superintendent of the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

After his retirement, Robison was superintendent of Admiral Farragut Academy in Toms River , New Jersey for several years .

Samuel Robison was since 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 Clark-Robison family grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

The destroyer USS Robison , laid down in 1959, 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.