John Russell Bartlett (naval officer)

John Russell Bartlett (1843–1904) was an American naval officer and oceanographer.

Bartlett was born on September 26, 1843 in New York. He was the son of John Russell Bartlett, an ethnologist and Secretary of State of Rhode Island. His mother was Eliza Allen Rhodes. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bartlett entered the United States Naval Academy in November 1859 and attended the Academy until being transferred to the steam sloop USS Brooklyn in the early months of the American Civil War. While on board the Brooklyn, he was present during the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip in April 1862, the capture of New Orleans a few days later, as well as the Siege of Vicksburg.

He was promoted to ensign in 1863 and served on Admiral Dahlgren's staff during the blockade of Charleston from 1863 to 1864. He was promoted to lieutenant in February 1864. He also participated in the assault on Fort Fisher in North Carolina in January 1865.

After the war, he mapped parts of West Africa, Tehuantepec, and the Coatzacoalcos River. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in July 1866.

He married Jeanie R. Jenckes of Lonsdale, Rhode Island on February 6, 1872. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1877.

From November 1878 until 1882, he commanded the oceanographic survey ship George S. Blake of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he discovered, between Jamaica and Cuba, the Bartlett Deep. Other accomplishments while commanding the Blake included working with biologist Alexander Emanuel Agassiz and studying the Gulf Stream.

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