Uriel Sebree

Uriel Sebree was a career officer in the United States Navy. He entered the Naval Academy during the Civil War and served until 1910. 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. Sebree died in Coronado, California, in 1922, aged 89.

About Uriel Sebree in brief

Uriel Sebree 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. Two geographical features in Alaska—Sebree Peak and Sebree Island—are named for Admiral Sebree. Sebree died in Coronado, California, in 1922, and was buried in the San Francisco Bay National Cemetery, where he was buried with his wife, the former Mary Ann Sebree, and their two sons, Frank P. and Frank R. Sebrees. He died of natural causes at the age of 89, and is survived by his wife and two children. He also leaves behind a wife, Mary Ann, and a son, Frank R., who was also a naval officer and served in the U.S. Navy from 1867 to 1878. In 1867 he was assigned to a rescue mission to find the remaining crew of the missing Polaris expedition in the Navy’s first mission to the Arctic. This attempt was only a partial success, but this led to Sebree’s selection for a second expedition. That mission to rescue Adolphus Greely and the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition was a success. 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 thePacific Fleet. He retired in 1910 and died in California, aged 89, on November 14, 1922. He leaves behind his wife Mary Ann and two sons Frank and Frank P., who were also naval officers and served with the US Navy until the end of the Second World War.

The Sebree family is buried in Fayette, Missouri, where Uriel was born on February 20, 1848, to Judge John Sebree and his wife. He had two children, Frank and Mary Anne, who were both born in 1852 and 1853, and one daughter, Mary Anne Sebree who was born in 1861. He never married and died on November 15, 1922, at age 89. He left the Navy in 1878 and went on to serve in the United States Coast Survey with the Coast Survey. He later became the second acting Governor of American Samoa. He served in this position for only a year before returning to the United S.S., where he remained for three years until his retirement in 1910. He then went to work with the U S Coast Survey and was given the command of the frigate USSFranklin Dachet. In the late 1800s, Sebree became involved in the search for the missing Polaris expedition. The Polaris expedition was an 1871 exploration of the Arctic that had aimed to reach the North Pole. 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 USS Tigress. Because of the Tigress’s success, the Navy chartered the ship, temporarily rechristened her USS Tigress, and used her to launch a rescue attempt to locate the remainder of the crew.

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