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Charles Dwight Sigsbee, the son of Nicholas and Agnes (Orr) Sigsbee, was born on January 16, 1845 in Albany, New York.
Appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1859, he was graduated in 1863, made ensign, and assigned to the Monongahela and, later, to the Brooklyn of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
He participated in the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and was given special mention for his gallant conduct by his commanding officer, Capt. James Alden. Transferred to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, he took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher.
In 1865 he was assigned to the Asiatic Squadron, and in 1869 was ordered to duty as an instructor at the Naval Academy. Here he served, in all, three tours of duty, 1869-71, 1882-85, and 1887-90, besides commanding the Dale and Constellation in three midshipmen practice cruises.
Associated with Alexander Agassiz, he was engaged in deep-sea explorations, principally in the Gulf of Mexico, where he made a complete deep-water survey of the Gulf.
In recognition of this work its deepest area was named Sigsbee Deep.
While on this duty he invented a deep-sea sounding machine, based on the wire sounding apparatus of Sir William Thomson; a water specimen cup for collecting specimens at various depths at a single haul; a gravitating or collecting trap for obtaining animal specimens from intermediate ocean depths; and a detaching apparatus to be used with a specimen-collecting cylinder originally devised by Commander George E. Belknap.
These appliances practically revolutionized deep-sea sounding and dredging.
He spent a total of ten years in the hydrographic office at Washington, and from 1893 to 1897 was chief hydrographer to the Navy Department.
Having been advanced through the preceding grades, he was commissioned captain March 21, 1897, and was in command of the battleship Maine from April 10 of that year until she was blown up and destroyed in Havana Harbor, Feburary 15, 1898. The naval court of inquiry exonerated him and his officers and crew from all blame for the disaster. Sigsbee's temperate, judicious dispatches at the time did much to avert a popular demand for immediate reprisal against Spain.
On May 25, 1898, in command of the St. Paul, he captured the British collier Restormel laden with coal for Cervera's squadron. On June 22 he engaged and defeated the Spanish destroyer Terror and the cruiser Isabella II off San Juan, Puerto Rico. For his services during the war he was advanced three numbers in rank with the citation: "For extraordinary heroism displayed during War with Spain and on the occasion of the wreck of Maine. "
Commissioned rear-admiral August 11, 1903, after a year at the League Island Navy Yard, he was given command of the Caribbean Squadron. On June 18, 1905, he sailed for Cherbourg, France, with a fleet of four ships and brought back the body of John Paul Jones in his flagship, the Brooklyn, arriving at Annapolis, July 23, 1905.
After commanding the second squadron of the Atlantic Fleet for two years, he was retired January 16, 1907. He wrote Deep Sea Sounding and Dredging (1880), and The Maine, an Account of her Destruction in Havana Harbor (1899).
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In November 1870 he married Eliza Rogers Lockwood, by whom he had one son and three daughters.