John Hubbard (admiral)

Hubbard returned to sea in 1889 aboard the protected cruiser USS Chicago in the Squadron of Evolution, serving aboard her until July 1892 when he became Inspector of Ordnance. Leaving that duty in July 1895, he was assigned to the training ship USS Essex.^[3]

On the eve of the

By November 1903, Hubbard was the commanding officer of the gunboat USS Nashville operating off the Isthmus of Panama. He played a prominent role in blocking interference by Colombian troops in the separation of Panama from Colombia that month, and was noted for his leadership in preventing European countries, particularly the German Empire, from asserting authority in Panama as it became an independent country.^[1]

Promoted to captain on 8 July 1905,^[5] Hubbard became the first commanding officer of the battleship USS Minnesota when she was commissioned on 9 March 1907. He commanded Minnesota during her duties related to the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, from 22 April 1907 to 3 September 1907 and during her voyage around the world as part of the "Great White Fleet" between 16 December 1907 and 22 February 1909.^[6]

Hubbard later performed special duty at the Department of the Navy and served as a member of the

Relinquishing command of the Asiatic Fleet on 16 May 1911,[9]^[10] Hubbard retired from the Navy upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 62 on 19 May 1911.^[7] He died in Washington, D.C., on the evening of 30 May 1932.^[11]

Commemoration

Hubbard Hall, also known as "The Boat House," on Dorsey Creek at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is named for Hubbard. It is the home of the Academy's rowing teams. Opened in 1930, it was the first building at the Academy to be named after a living person.^[12][13]

Gallery

• 
  Hubbard (right foreground) presents a

  Heihachiro Togo is just beyond and to left of Saitō. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas J. O'Brien

  is at right center.

• Great White Fleet
• History of Panama
• Separation of Panama from Colombia
• United States Asiatic Fleet
• USS Minnesota (BB-22)

Notes

References

• Anonymous. "Admiral Hubbard Dies." The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), May 31, 1932.
• www.usna.edu Hubbard Hall
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: USS Minnesota II
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: USS Yankee II
• Naval History and Heritage Command: Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900.
• Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year 1911. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911
• Greeley, Horace, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Edward McPherson, Alexander Jacob Schem, and Henry Eckford Rhoades. The Tribune Alamanac and Political Record. New York: The Tribune Association, 1910.
• Hamersly, Lewis Randolph. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, Seventh Edition, New York: L. R. Hamersly Company, 1902.
• Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States, Volume VI, 1910-1911. Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1910.
• Royston, Mark W. The Faces Behind the Bases: Short Biographies of the Persons For Whom Military Bases Are Named. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, 2009.
  ISBN 978-1-4401-3713-6
  .

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• John Hubbard Memoirs, 1909-1930 (bulk 1916) MS 424 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy

• Note: The Asiatic Fleet was the First Squadron, Pacific Fleet, from 1907 to 28 January 1910, between Brownson's tour and Hubbard's tour.