Edward Moale, Jr.

Edward Moale, Jr. (10 September 1866 – 23 October 1903) was an officer of the United States Navy.

Biography

Moale born at Little Rock, Arkansas, 10 September 1866, was appointed a naval cadet in 1882 and commissioned an ensign, 1 July 1889. As an officer on board gunboat Helena in 1898, he took part in operations against Spanish land and naval forces at Santiago de Cuba, including the naval battle of 3 July. Helena subsequently sailed east, around the Cape of Good Hope, and across the Indian Ocean to the Philippines.

There, Lieutenant Moale participated in operations, off northern Luzon, to assist the U.S. Army during the Philippine-American War, 1890–1900.

He died 23 October 1903, at Baltimore, Maryland, from illness contracted during land operations in the Cagayan Valley (Philippines) swamps in 1899.

In 1944, the destroyer USS Moale (DD-693) was named in his honor.

Moale as a lieutenant, standing sixth from the left in the back row in this photograph of the officers of the protected cruiser USS Chicago, ca. 1903.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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