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Uriel Sebree (February 20, 1848 – August 6, 1922) was a career officer in the United States Navy. He entered the Naval Academy during the Civil War and served until 1910, retiring as a rear admiral. He is best remembered for his two expeditions into the Arctic and for serving as acting governor of American Samoa. He was also commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1867, Sebree was posted to a number of vessels before being assigned to a rescue mission to find the remaining crew of the missing ''Polaris'' in the Navy's first mission to the Arctic. This attempt was only a partial success—the ''Polaris'' crew was rescued by a British ship rather than the US Navy—but this led to Sebree's selection eleven years later for a second expedition to the Arctic. That mission to rescue Adolphus Greely and the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition was a success. Sebree was subsequently appointed as the second acting governor of American Samoa. He served in this position for only a year before returning to the United States. In 1907, he was promoted to rear admiral and given command of the Pathfinder Expedition around the South American coast before being appointed commander of the 2nd Division of the Pacific Fleet and then commander-in-chief of the entire fleet. He retired in 1910 and died in Coronado, California, in 1922. Two geographical features in Alaska—Sebree Peak and Sebree Island—are named for Admiral Sebree. ==Early life and career== Uriel Sebree was born in Fayette, Missouri, on February 20, 1848, to Judge John Sebree, called "one of the prominent citizens of old Howard County" by the ''Jefferson County Tribune'',〔 (reprinted from the ''Jefferson County Tribune'')〕 and his wife. Uriel was the first of two sons.〔 His brother, Frank P. Sebree, became a lawyer. Uriel entered the United States Naval Academy on July 23, 1863, during the American Civil War. After his graduation in 1867, his first assignment was on board the .〔 Over the next few years Sebree won repeated promotion: to ensign in 1868, master in 1870, and lieutenant in 1871. In 1873 he transferred to the ironclad .〔 One episode in Sebree's early military history which influenced his later career was his participation in the second ''Polaris'' rescue mission. The Polaris expedition was an 1871–72 exploration of the Arctic that had aimed to reach the North Pole. The expedition was troubled from the start: its leader, Charles Francis Hall, died in mysterious circumstances before the end of their first winter.〔 The following year, the ''Polaris'' remained trapped in ice and unable to return home. During a violent storm, the crew was separated into two groups: a small group of explorers was stranded on the now-crippled ''Polaris'' and the remainder were marooned on an ice floe.〔 These latter 19 survivors were discovered by chance and rescued by the civilian whaler .〔 Because of the ''Tigresss success, the Navy chartered the ship, temporarily rechristened her the USS ''Tigress'', and used her to launch a rescue attempt to locate the remainder of the crew. For this attempt the ship would be commanded by a group of eight navy officers, led by Captain James A. Greer, although much of the original civilian crew was retained. Lieutenant Sebree was one of the officers chosen for the mission. This rescue mission was the first official United States military expedition to the Arctic; previous expeditions, including that of the ''Polaris'' itself, had been led by civilians. The ''Tigress'' sailed from New York on July 14, 1873,〔 traveling first to St. John's, Newfoundland and then to Godhavn and Upernavik in Greenland before following the coast further north. The crew searched North Star Bay, Northumberland Island, and Hartstene Bay before discovering the first sign of the ''Polaris'' crew: a camp on Littleton Island where they had wintered, now occupied by Inuit. The missing men, the rescuers were told, had constructed makeshift boats salvaged from their destroyed ship and traveled south. Acting on this clue, the ''Tigress'' searched the Baffin Island coast to Cumberland Sound, and then the Greenland coast from Ivigtut to Fiskenæsset and the Davis Strait, before returning to St. John's for fuel. Once there, they learned that the ''Polaris'' survivors had been rescued by a British ship and that their search was over. After returning to New York the ''Tigress'' was transferred back to civilian use. After this expedition, Sebree was assigned to the screw frigate where he remained for three years.〔 In 1878, he was assigned to work with the United States Coast Survey on board the ''A. D. Bache''. The following year he was given his first two commands: the ''Silliman'' and then the ''Thomas R. Gedney'', both ships of the United States Coast Survey. He remained on the latter ship for nearly three years before being assigned to the in 1882.〔 In 1883, he was given his first command of a Navy ship, the , with orders to sail to Alaska. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uriel Sebree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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