| 词条 | Albert G. Winterhalter |
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|name=Albert G. Winterhalter |birth_date= {{birth date|1856|10|5}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1920|6|5|1856|10|5}} |image=File:Admiral Albert Gustav Winterhalter circa 1915.jpg |caption=Admiral Winterhalter circa 1915 |nickname= |birth_place= Detroit, Michigan |death_place= United States Naval Hospital Washington, DC |placeofburial= Arlington National Cemetery |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |allegiance= United States of America |branch= United States Navy |serviceyears=1877 to 1920 |rank= Admiral |unit= |commands=United States Asiatic Fleet |spouse=Helen Dauvray |awards= |relations= |laterwork= }} Albert Gustav Winterhalter (October 5, 1856 – June 5, 1920) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He was commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet from 1915 to 1917.[1] He could speak or read eleven languages by the time he was appointed to command the Asiatic Fleet. BiographyHe was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 5, 1856, to John Winterhalter. Winterhalter was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from the First Congressional District of Michigan, graduating in 1877.[1] Winterhalter lost an eye to an archery accident in 1877. Winterhalter spent much of his career in scientific posts. He was assigned to the United States Naval Observatory from January 1885 to November 1889, during which time he served as the United States delegate to the International Astrophotographic Congress in Paris, France, and visited the principal observatories of Europe. His report on the tour was published in 1889. He was also responsible for the Naval Observatory Exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. While stationed in San Francisco in 1896, he married Broadway actress Helen Dauvray. In 1898, as flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral J.M. Miller, Commander in Chief Pacific Station, Winterhalter personally arranged the hoisting of the American flag at the ceremonies attending the transfer of sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. He assumed command of the gunboat Elcano in 1902 and of the gunboat Paducah in 1905. As Aide for Material from 1914 to 1915, he was a principal assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and an ex-officio voting member of the General Board of the Navy. He took command of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet on July 11, 1915, and ranked as a full admiral for the duration of his tour, reverting to his permanent rank of rear admiral upon relinquishing command in 1917. He was Hydrographer of the Navy from May 1908 to January 1910.In 1916, Winterhalter conducted experiments aboard USS Washington (ACR-11) to evaluate acoustic ranging techniques. He sailed Washington on different courses relative to a lightship that was transmitting radio waves and air- and water-mediated sound waves, and found that submarine sound waves were a more reliable guide than air-mediated sound. This was the first attempt to determine distance using acoustics, and a similar technique was later used for hydrographic surveys. He died of lobar pneumonia on June 5, 1920, in Washington, D.C., at the United States Naval Hospital.[1] He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His widow died three years later.[2] Dates of rank
References1. ^1 2 {{cite news |author= |title=A. G. Winterhalter, Rear Admiral, Dies. Member Of General Naval Board Succumbs To Pneumonia After Brief Illness. Was Favorite Of Daniels. Former Commander In Chief Of The Asiatic Fleet Had High Professional Attainments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/06/06/archives/ag-winterhalter-rear-admiral-dies-member-of-general-naval-board.html |quote= |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 6, 1920 }} 2. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Naval Officers at Helen Dauvray's Bier. Once Noted Actress, Widow of Rear Admiral Winterhalter, Buried in Arlington |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/12/07/archives/naval-officers-at-helen-dauvrays-bier-once-noted-actress-widow-of.html |quote= |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 7, 1923 |accessdate=2014-01-17 }} Further reading
|title = The War Chiefs of the Navy |journal = The World's Work: A History of Our Time |volume = 30 |date = August 1915 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=N69E9klDugUC&pg=PA418&dq=site:www.history.navy.mil+walter+cowles+captain#PPP9,M1 |publisher = Doubleday, Page & Company |author1 = Page, Walter Hines |author2 = Page, Arthur Wilson }}
|first = Lewis R. |last = Hamersly |title = The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, fifth edition |place = Philadelphia |publisher = L.R. Hamersly & Co. |year = 1894 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_qoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA211&dq=%22thomas+benton+howard%22#PPA211,M1 }}
|first = Dean R. |last = Heaton |title = Four Stars: The Super Stars of United States Military History |place = Baltimore |publisher = Gateway Press |year = 1995}}
|first = Linwood S. |last = Howeth |title = History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy |year = 1963 |chapter = Chapter XXVI: Development of Underwater Sound and Detection Equipment |pages = 297–312 |url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112064674325;view=1up;seq=329}}
{{S-start}}{{s-mil}}{{Succession box| before=Walter C. Cowles| title=Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet| after=Austin M. Knight| years=9 July 1915–4 April 1917}}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Winterhalter, Albert G.}} 7 : 1856 births|1920 deaths|United States Naval Academy alumni|United States Navy admirals|People from Detroit|Burials at Arlington National Cemetery|American expatriates in France |
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