Robert B. Dashiell

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Biography

Dashiell was born in 1860 near Woodville, Virginia.[1] He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1881, ranked seventh in his class.[2] One of his classmates was John W. Weeks,[2] who later served in Congress and was Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925. Following his graduation, Dashiell served for 16 months on the USS Essex.[1]

Dashiell was commissioned as an ensign on July 1, 1883.[1][3] First assigned to the naval ordnance department,[4] he was transferred in 1885 to the USS Pensacola,[5] under the command of then-Captain George Dewey.[6] He served on the Pensacola until early 1888, when he was again assigned to naval ordnance.[1]

In 1889, Dashiell received an honorary Master of Arts degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.[7] He was dispatched by the Bureau of Ordnance to construct a naval ordnance center in Indian Head, Maryland,[8] where he served as Inspector in Charge of Ordnance from 1890 to 1893.[9] The resulting facility, Naval Support Facility Indian Head, has played a significant role in ordnance development and testing for the United States.[8]

In May 1893, Dashiell was assigned to the armored cruiser USS New York.[10] In December of that year, he was promoted to lieutenant junior grade.[10] In 1895, while still serving on the New York,[11] he resigned as a line officer and was appointed a staff corps officer in the Naval Construction Corps.[12] An inventor of important ordnance mechanisms and an authority on dock construction, he was commissioned Assistant Naval Constructor on February 7, 1895.[13]

Dashiell served in his specialty until his death due to meningitis in 1899 in Washington, D.C.[14] He was survived by his wife and three children.[14] A brother, Paul Dashiell, was a professor and football coach at the Naval Academy.[15] One of his daughters, Eleanor, married future Army major general Julian Hatcher in October 1910.[16] Another daughter, Nancy, married future Navy vice admiral Thomas Leigh Gatch in June 1917.[17]

In 1943, the destroyer USS Dashiell (DD-659) was named in his honor.[18] The Dashiell was commissioned 20 March 1943 and decommissioned 29 April 1960.

References

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