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Home Town Newington, CT
Last Address New York City. Burial: Newington Cemetery Newington, Hartford County Connecticut, USA
Date of Passing Apr 26, 1932
Location of Interment Newington Cemetery - Newington Cemetery, Connecticut
Wall/Plot Coordinates Family plot.
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Vice Admiral Roger Welles, Jr., U.S.N. (Ret.)
United States. Naval Forces, Europe.
United States. Navy--Intelligence specialists.
United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet.
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet.
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence.
Colombia--Discovery and exploration.
Indians of South America--Venezuela World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Spanish-American War, 1898
Commendant 5th and 11th Naval Districts
First Commendant San Diego Training Station
First "Navy Mayor" of San Diego, Calif.
Other Comments:
Decorations include:
Navy Cross - 1919
Spanish Campaign, Cuba, Atlantic Medals, 1898 - 1898
Philippine Campaign Medal - Navy/Marine Corps - 1899
WWI Victory Medal - 1918
Commander of the Legion of Honor (France) - 1919
Grand Officer Order of Leopold II (Belgium) - 1919
Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class, Japan - 1919
Nevada Class Battleship:
Displacement 27,500 Tons, Dimensions, 583' (oa) x 95' 3" x 29' 7" (Max) Armament 10 x 14"/45 21 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Triple Turrets, 16" Dual turrets, 3" Second (armor) Deck, 2 1/2" Third (splinter) Deck 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 24,800 IHP; 2 vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 864. Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., October 26, 1912. Launched March 23, 1914. Commissioned May 2, 1916. Decommissioned (War Loss). Stricken September 1, 1944. Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft during attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941. 20 Officers and 395 Men were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Her hulk was raised in 1943, Sold for scrap December 5 1946. Hulk sank while under tow to breakers, 540 miles NE, Pearl Harbor, May 17, 1947.
Chain of Command Captain Roger Welles was the first commander of Oklahoma after her commissioning in 1916. A former commander of the Naval Training Center in Newport, his command of the ship was a short period of time mainly involving the command of the ship as a training ship. This was because the oil-fired boilers that she used were not able to be fueled in England, as German U-boats had drained their supply. After he gave command over to Rear Admiral Spencer K. Wood, he was appointed the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
