Charles J. Train

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Charles J. Train
Rear Admiral
Commands held
Battles/warsSpanish–American War
ChildrenCharles R. Train
RelationsCharles R. Train (father)

Charles Jackson Train (May 14, 1845 – August 4, 1906) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He served in the Spanish–American War and later as the second Commander-in-Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet.

Naval career

Train was born in

lieutenant commander on June 30, 1869.[1][2]

Train returned to the U.S. Naval Academy to serve as an instructor from 1871 to 1872. He was assigned to special duty in 1873, and in 1874 and 1875 had another special duty assignment to study the

Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, followed by a stint aboard the sloop-of-war USS Lackawanna on the Pacific Station, and then a return to the Naval Academy for a second tour as an instructor in navigation.[3][4]

Leaving the Naval Academy in 1881, Train received a special duty assignment aboard the sidewheel frigate USS Powhatan from 1881 to 1884. He was assigned to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting from 1884 to 1886 and was promoted to commander on January 17, 1886.[5] Train took command of a training ship, the sloop-of-war USS Jamestown, from 1886 to 1888, then was commanding officer of another training ship, the sloop-of-war USS Constellation, from 1888 to 1889. After service as a lighthouse inspector from 1889 to 1890, he took command of the schooner-rigged gunboat USS Machias on 20 July 1893.[6]

Train reported for duty to the

Atlanta, Georgia. In June 1896 he became a lighthouse inspector in the Fourth District, serving in that capacity until 1898.[7]

On the eve of the

auxiliary cruiser USS Prairie, and became her first commanding officer when she was commissioned on April 8, 1898. Train then took command of the battleship USS Massachusetts on April 19, 1898, commanding her during the war. She participated in the blockade of Santiago de Cuba but missed the Battle of Santiago de Cuba
because she was away coaling.

Promoted to captain on November 22, 1898,[8] Train became a member of the Board of Inspection and Survey on May 14, 1901,[9] and served as its president from January 1903 to February 1904.

Promoted to rear admiral, Train became the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet on March 30, 1905.

Philippine Islands, where he ensured that their crews were well taken care of during a lengthy stay until they were able to return to Russia.[11]

In November 1905, Train was at the center of a diplomatic dispute while with a group of American officers on a

United States Marines landed to rescue the officers, the villagers attacked them with pitchforks and the Marines fired two shots. Local Chinese officials refused to return the officers' guns, but Train and his companions were able to extricate themselves without further injury to anyone. The governor of Nanking later apologized for the mob's actions, returned the American officers' guns, and punished the ringleaders of the mob.[12][13]

Personal life

The son of

Charles Russell Train
, Train was married to the former Grace Tomlinson (1850–1942). They had three children.

Death

Train planned to retire from the Navy on May 14, 1907, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 62, but, before he could, he died of

Heihachiro Togo and other dignitaries attended at Yokohama, Japan, aboard Train's flagship, the battleship USS Ohio, the steamer Empress of China carried his body out of the harbor under escort. His body was transported directly to Washington, D.C.[14]

Train is buried with his wife at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.

Notes

  1. ^ Hamersly, p. 107.
  2. ^ "Naval History and Heritage Command: Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Hamersly, p. 107.
  4. ^ Tenth Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1865 of Harvard College, July 1900 to July 1907, Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1907, p. 57.
  5. ^ Hamersly, p. 107.
  6. ^ Hamersly, p. 107.
  7. ^ Hamersly, p. 107.
  8. ^ "Naval History and Heritage Command: Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  9. ^ Hamersly, p. 107
  10. ISBN 1-55750-883-6
    , p. 318.
  11. ^ Anonoymous, "Admiral Train Dies at Che-Foo, China", The New York Times, August 4, 1906.
  12. ^ Anonoymous, "Admiral Train Dies at Che-Foo, China," The New York Times, August 4, 1906.
  13. ^ Tenth report of the Secretary of the Class of 1865 of Harvard College, July 1900 to July 1907, Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1907, p. 57.
  14. ^ Anonymous, 'in Honor of Adm. Train," The Evening News, San Jose, California, August 8, 1906, p. 8.

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Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet
March 30, 1905 – August 4, 1906 		Succeeded by
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