The New Student's Reference Work/Evans, Rear-Admiral Robley Dunglison

REAR-ADMIRAL EVANS

Evans, Rear-Admiral Robley Dunglison, was born in Floyd County, Va., Aug. 18, 1846, and was educated at the Naval Academy. He was first attached to the West India, and subsequently to the North Atlantic, squadron, and took part in January, 1865, in the attacks on Fort Fisher, in which he was twice wounded. He subsequently served on various cruisers, and was in command of the Yorktown at Valparaiso, Chile, during diplomatic disputes between that government and the United States. He later had command of the battleships Indiana and Iowa, and in the latter did excellent service in the bombardment of the forts of San Juan, Porto Rico, and took part (July 3, 1898) in the naval battle off Santiago de Cuba. He was made rear-admiral in 1901, was placed in command of the Asiatic fleet of the American navy, and in 1904 was assigned to the command of the Atlantic fleet. He was in command of the fleet of 16 battleships which sailed from Hampton Roads in Dec. 1907, passed around South America to the Pacific, and arrived at San Francisco in April of 1908. He was familiarly known to seamen as “Fighting Bob.” He died Jan. 3, 1912.