Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-11-06
AND MARYLAND GAZETTE
ANNAPOLIS. MD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1871.
CAPT. FULLAM DETACHED.
Ordered From Command OF Mississippi
To Wait Orders-Sketch OF Career
OF Naval Officer.

VI Naval Officer.
Orders issued by the Navy Depart
ment on Saturday detached Capt. w.
F. Fullam, U. s. N, from command
of the Mississippi to home and await
orders.
Captain Fullam is one of the best
known officers in the service, and Ger.
tainly one of the most capable. He
is held in high esteem by the Depart
ment. The following is a sketch of
Captain Fullam's career:
William Freeland Fullam was ap-
pointed a cadet midshipman, u. S.
Navy, by Hon. Freeman Clark, Mum
roe county, New York, entered the
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, Sep
tember %, 1873, and was graduated
at the head Of his class in June. 1877.
He was cadet midshipman on the u.
5. S. Marion and the u. S. S. Tren-
ton. on the European Station. from
1877, 1879. He was watch officer on
the IT, S. S. SwRtara on the China
Station in 1S79-1SS2 and was promoted
to ensign in March, 1880. He was at
the Naval Academy in the Department
of Applied Mathematics, and in charge
of the battalion of infantry in 1888
1887. He was watch officer on the
practiceship Dale during the sur mer
cruises with midshipmen in 1855 and
1884, and on ne Constellation in the
summer of 1856.
He was romoted to lieutenG iu-
nior grade) in October, 1886. and
was watch officer on the U. \. s.
Boston in 1s87-1SS9; the U. s. S.
Vesuvius in 1889; the u. S. S. York
town and the u. S. S. Chicago in
1889-lS90. He was at the Naval Acad-
emy in the Department of Ordnance,
and in charge of the battalion of in
fantry in 1S9l-1S94. and was promot-
ed to lieutenant in May, 1892. He
was watch officer on the U. s. S.
Raleigh and the U. S. S. Amphitrite
in 1S94-1897. He was at the Naval
Academy, Department of Discipline,
in 1S97-1S9S. He was watch officer
on the U. S. S. New Orleans during
the war with Spain, and was at the
bombarding of Santiago and at the
blockade of Santiago and San Juan.
He was at the Naval Academy, De-
partment of Ordnance, in 1S9S-1S99.
He was executive officer on the q. S.
S. lancaster in 1S99-1902, being pro-
NOTED to lieutenant-commande in De-
cember, 1899. In 1902-05 he was
head of the Department of Ordnance
at the Naval Academy, but command
ed the U. S. S. Chesapeake in the sum-
mer of 1904, and the U. S. S. Terror
in the summer of '05, on the practice
cruises with midshipmen. He was pro-
noted to commander July, 1905.
Commander Full nm was ordered to
the command of the U. S. S. Glacier
September Is, 1905, and in November
following was ordered for special duty
with the Glacier and the colliers
Brutus and Caesar under his command
to tow the Dewey, the largest dry dock
in the world, with lifting capacity
of 20, 900 tons. from Chesapeake Bay
to the Philippines, some $4,000 miles.
He did not approve of the method
adopted for perfor ming this difficult
and hazardous undertaking and, at his
request, he was relieved from the COM
mand of the expedition.
He then became commander of the
Marietta, and in 1906 he landed
force from the Marietta at Cienfuegos
for the preservation of plantations.
public property and the property If
foreigners, threatened by insurgents
in Cuba, which was followed by the
second Intervention of the United
States Government in Cuban affairs.
In the spring of 1907, still command
ing the Marietta, he rendered a vet
greater service in the cause of peace
and good order, by teaching beleaguer-
ers on the coast of Honduras and Mic
aragua in a lesson not soon to be for
gotten, their obligation to respect and
observe the flags, the rights and the
property of neutral nations and their
citizens. In this he showed knowl-
edge of international law, and a ca
pacity for its administration that won
for him general commendation at home
and abroad.
The Army and Navy Register of
April 6, 1907 published at Washing
ton said of Commander Fullam: "He
has again proved equal to a delicate
situation and has justified the ex-
pectations of his seniors in the SER
vice, who have observed him as a
man of readiness, resource, intreped-
ity of action, and as diplomatic as he
is fearless" In July, 1907, he was
ordered to Newport, r. l., as COM
mandant of the training station there.
In June, 1909, he was promoted to
the grade Of captain, and in December
he was ordered to command the bat