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Really great early 1900 GERMAN made Stein with American / Spanish American War Motif showing portrait of ADMIRAL SCHLEY on front (see below). One side of sten has American eagle spread-winged in front of American Flag banner and the other has Eagle with shield and the words E PLURIBUS UNUM. Excellent condition as shown. Appears unused.

Winfield Scott Schley ( 9 October 1839 - 2 October 1911 ) was an admiral of the United States Navy .

Born at Richfields, near Frederick, Maryland , Schley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860 , and served through the American Civil War , beginning on board the frigate Niagara in 1860 and 1861 . He was attached to the frigate Potomac of the Western Gulf squadron in 1861 and 1862 , and subsequently took part, on board the sidewheel gunboat Winona and the sloops Monongahela and Richmond in all the engagements that led to the capture of Port Hudson , being promoted Lieutenant on 16 July 1862 .

Schley served on Wateree in the Pacific from 1864 to 1866 . He suppressed an insurrection of Chinese workers on the Chincha Islands in 1865 , and later in the same year landed at La Union, San Salvador , to protect American interests during a revolution.

From 1867 to 1869 he was an instructor in the United States Naval Academy . He served on the Asiatic Station from 1869 to 1872 and was adjutant of the land forces during the attack by Rear Admiral John Rodgers 's expedition on the Korean forts on Salee River on 10 June and 11 June 1871 .

From 1872 to 1875 he was head of the department of modern languages in the Naval Academy. He was promoted commander in June 1874 .

From 1876 to 1879 he commanded Essex , most of the time in the South Atlantic on the Brazil station. During the cruise he sailed Essex to the vicinity of the South Shetland Islands in search of a missing sealer, and rescued a shipwrecked crew on the islands of Tristan d'Acunha .

From 1879 until October 1883 , he was inspector of the Second Lighthouse District.

After re-supply and relief missions repeately failed to reach Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely 's Lady Franklin Bay expedition in the Arctic, Schley was appointed in February 1884 to command the next relief expedition. On 22 June near Cape Sabine in Grinnell Land , Schley rescued Greely and six (of his twenty-four) companions, after passing through 1400 miles of ice during the voyage.

Schley was commissioned chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting at the United States Department of the Navy in 1885 , and promoted Captain in March 1888 . He commanded Baltimore (C-3) in Rear Admiral George Brown's squadron off the coast of Chile in 1891 . Early in 1892 he was again transferred to the Lighthouse Bureau, and until February 1895 was inspector of the Third Lighthouse District; and from 1897 to 1898 he was a member (and chairman) of the Lighthouse Board.

Schley was commissioned Commodore on 6 February 1898 , and on 24 March , although lowest on the list of Commodores, he was put in command of the flying squadron, with Brooklyn (CA-3) as his flagship, for service in the Spanish-American War .

On 18 May 1898 , Schley's Flying Squadron was sent by Acting Rear Admiral William T. Sampson to Cienfuegos to pursue the Spanish Squadron under the command of Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete . When Sampson received news that Cervera was in Santiago de Cuba , not Cienfuegos, he initially vacillated, at first informing Schley of the rumor, yet requesting him to stay at Cienfuegos, then later changing his orders to have Schley investigate the situation at Santiago.

Although Schley was subordinate to Sampson, he was accustomed to exercising independent command of his ship. Schley decided to stay at Cienfuegos, feeling that all signs indicated that Cervera was t in the harbor. After hearing from Cuban insurgents that Cervera was definitely not at Cienfuegos, Schley decided to obey Sampson's orders three days after receiving them and go to Santiago. When the crew of three American cruisers he en...

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