USS Sigsbee (DD-502), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee (1845–1923).
USS Sigsbee
Sigsbee on 14 April 1945.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. In his earlier career, he was a pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer. He is best remembered as the captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 and set off the events that led up to the start of the Spanish–American War. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1899.
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee
The Sigsbee sounding machine
A telegram from Sigsbee to Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long on the destruction of USS Maine