Walter S. Crosley

Infobox Military Person
name = Walter Selywn Crosley
lived = birth date|1871|10|30 – death date and age|1939|1|6|1871|10|30
placeofbirth = East Jaffrey, New Hampshire
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allegiance = United States of America
serviceyears = 1893–1935
rank = Rear Admiral
branch = United States Navy
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battles = Spanish-American War
awards = Navy Cross
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Walter Selywn Crosley was born 30 October 1871 in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 2 June 1893. During the Spanish-American War he distinguished himself by taking USS "Leyden" into the Bay of Nipe through a narrow channel which was supposedly mined. Under musket fire from shore, he discovered the Spanish gunboat "Don Juan" and engaged in a heated action until the remainder of the squadron came up and sank the enemy ship.

Crosley served as assistant naval attaché in Russia and received the Navy Cross for conducting a party of Americans out of Russia under difficult and trying conditions in April 1917. He served as Navy hydrographer, commanded organizations in the operating forces and naval districts, and was a member of the Navy General Board. Rear Admiral Crosley retired on 1 November 1935, and died on 6 January 1939 at Baltimore, Maryland.

Namesake

In 1944, the destroyer escort USS "Crosley" (DE-226) was named in honor of R.Adm. Crosley, sponsored by his widow, Mrs. W. S. Crosley.

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