Yates Stirling
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Sr. | |
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Baltimore, Maryland, US | |
| Died | March 5, 1929 (aged 85) Baltimore, Maryland, US |
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| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service/ |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1863–1905 |
| Rank |  Rear admiral |
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| Relations | Yates Stirling Jr. (son) |
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Yates Stirling (May 6, 1843 – March 5, 1929) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Birth and personal life
Stirling was born in
Baltimore, Maryland, on May 6, 1843, the son of Archibald Stirling and the former Elizabeth A. Walsh. He and his wife, Ellen (1843–1929), had seven children. Their elder son, Yates Stirling Jr. (1872–1948), also became a rear admiral in the Navy, making them only the second family in the history of the U.S. Navy to have father and son rear admirals concurrently living. The first were Rear Admirals Thomas O. Selfridge Sr. and Junior. Stirling's younger son, Archibald (1884–1963), was a captain
in the Navy.
Stirling was a companion of the Maryland Commandery of the
Maryland Regulars during the American Revolutionary War.[1]
Stirling attended private schools in Baltimore as a youth. He was appointed by Representative
Stirling served for the rest of the war in the
James River in Virginia until reporting back aboard Shenandoah for duty when she returned to service in June 1864. Aboard Shenandoah he saw combat at Fort Fisher in North Carolina in both the First Battle of Fort Fisher in December 1864 and the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in January 1865 and remained on blockade duty through the end of the war in April 1865.[3]
After the war, Stirling served aboard the
Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, from 1871 to 1872.[3][4][5] While stationed at Mare Island, his son and namesake, Yates Jr.
was born on April 30, 1872.
After a lengthy period on sick leave from 1873 to 1875, Stirling returned to duty aboard the receiving ship
Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, from 1875 to 1876. He had torpedo duty in 1877, then had ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., from 1877 to 1879.[3][4]
Stirling returned to sea in 1878 as
Stirling had duty as a
Puget Sound Navy Yard, where his son, Yates Jr. joined him shortly thereafter as an officer of the yard.[7]
Stirling was commander-in-chief of the
lobsterman in a dory piled high with traps managed to interfere with the ship's passage. After Stirling called down to the lobsterman with some "choice deep sea language", the old man leisurely rested on his oars and replied, "And who be you?" Stirling blustered back, "Who am I? I'm the first officer of this ship." "Well, go to your skipper, then," replied the ancient mariner with dignity. "I don't argue with nobody but my equals an I'm cap'n o' this."[10]
Death
major general
taken c. 1923.Stirling died on March 5, 1929, at his home, 11 East Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland, survived by this wife, two sons and three daughters. He was 85 years old and had been ill for about five years. He is buried along with his wife at
Arlington, Virginia.[11]
Admiral Sterling was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Service medals
United States awards
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| Civil War Campaign Medal | Spanish Campaign Medal |
The original service criteria for the
government contract to supply campaign medals to the expanded recipient base with the Bastian Brothers Company
did not occur until 1922.
Dates of rank
United States Naval Academy Graduated midshipman 1863
| Ensign | Lieutenant junior grade | Lieutenant | Lieutenant commander |
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| O-1 | O-2 | O-3 | O-4 |
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| May 28, 1863 | Never held | November 10, 1866 | March 12, 1868 |
| Commander | Captain | Commodore | Rear admiral |
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| O-5 | O-6 | O-7 | O-8 |
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| November 26, 1880 | September 16, 1894 | Never Held | June 8, 1902 |
- Flag Rank in 1902. Currently, a captain who is promoted to pay grade O-7 becomes a rear admiral (lower half) and uses the abbreviated rank designation RDML as opposed to RADM, which designates a rear admiral (upper half), O-8.
- Stirling was promoted to rear admiral on June 8, 1902.
See also
Notes
- ^ A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Volume 1, Louis H. Cornish, New York, 1902
- ^ Yorkville Enquirer, April 2, 1898
- ^ a b c d e f Hamersly, p. 86.
- ^ a b c d e "Naval History and Heritage Command: Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775–1900". Archived from the original on June 23, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Wampanoag I
- ^ The Evening Star, June 20, 1902
- ^ Aberdeen Herald, August 25, 1902
- ^ Tolley, p. 318.
- ^ Rock Island Argus, May 6, 1905
- ^ The East Oregonian, July 10, 1905
- ^ Arlington National Cemetery
References
- Naval History and Heritage Command: Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775–1900.
- 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.
- Tolley, Kemp, Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1971 ISBN 1-55750-883-6.