W. S. Schley

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Type: Skipjack

Year: 1898

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Location: Pocomoke City

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1	No image URL.							SHORT DESCRIPTION: Glass tumbler with portrait of Commodore W. S. Schley, USN, around which appears draped American and Cuban flags, wingspread eagle, bow of a naval vessel, two cannon barrels, and a group of soldiers marching. The flags are in colors and the entire transfer is enclosed with a gilt edge border. NOTES: Commodore Winfield Scott Schley was born at Richfields, near Fredrick, Maryland on October 9, 1860. He died on October 2, 1911.	CL7057
	2								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Obverse: In the bowl appears a portrait of, and the inscription Commodore W. S. Schley. At the top of the handle appears the likeness of the American Flag but with six stars. Reverse: STANDARD. LABEL: Commodore W.S. Schley Of the Spanish American War Souvenir spoon FS 215	CL1845
	3								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Painting by Carlton Chapman showing the USS Essex at a pier at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1896. There are several sailors standing near the ship. NOTES: Between January 1894–April 1898 the USS Essex served as a training ship for naval apprentices. VESSEL INFORMATION: VESSEL NAME: USS ESSEX (1876) Commissioned: 3 October 1876 Decommissioned: May 1889 Struck: 27 October 1930 Fate: Sold General characteristics Vessel Type: Wooden screw steamer Displacement: 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) Length: 185 ft (56 m) Beam: 35 ft (11 m) Draft: 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) Propulsion: Steam engine Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) Armament: 1 × 11 in (280 mm) gun, 4 × 9 in (230 mm) guns, 1 × 60-pounder gun Designer: Donald McKay USS ESSEX, the third ship of that name, was built by the United States and Donald Mackay at East Boston, Massachusetts; commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 3 October 1876, Commander W. S. Schley commanding; and reported to the North Atlantic Squadron. During the following year USS ESSEX cruised to Liberia and along the west coast of Africa and in 1878-79 joined the South Atlantic Squadron. She sailed on the Pacific Station from November 1881 to December 1882 and thence on the Asiatic Station for two years during which she took on board Captain S. H. Morrison and crew members of the shipwrecked Ranier. Following repairs' she returned to the Asiatic Station under command of Commander T.F. Jewell in June 1886 and in October anchored at Ponape, Caroline Islands, to afford protection to American missionaries during a native uprising. She returned to New York via the Suez Canal and was placed out of commission in May 1889. Regarded as one of the finest ships of the fleet, USS ESSEX was designated next as a training ship. A three-month cruise with cadets at the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1893 was followed by two lengthy tours to train naval apprentices (January 1894-April 1898, and September 1898 to December 1903.) USS ESSEX was lent to the Ohio Naval Militia (1904-16) and served in the Ninth Naval District from 1917 to 1926. The Naval Reserve of the State of Minnesota used her as training and receiving ship from 1921 until 27 October 1930 when she was stricken from the Navy List. She was sold for scrap on 23 December 1930 and subsequently burned near Duluth. NOTES: Carlton T. Chapman was born September 18, 1860 to Henry and Margaret Chapman. They lived in Ohio, but Chapman spent summers at his uncle’s shipyard in Maine, where his father was born. During his teenage years Chapman worked as a cabinet maker with his father, according to the 1880 census. Chapman’s artwork focused on the maritime world, and after art school the U.S. Naval Academy commissioned him to paint images of the War of 1812, which appear in James Barnes’ “Naval Actions of the War of 1812.” During the Spanish-American War, Harper’s Magazine Weekly sent him as a kind of war correspondent with Admiral Sampson’s fleet to draw the war. His art shows that he was present for many of the significant battles. He married Aurelie Reynaud on November 6, 1911 and won numerous awards throughout his life. Chapman passed away February 12, 1925.	CL8793