Lucien Young
| Lucien Young | |
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Captain Lucien Young
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| Born |
March 31, 1852 Lexington, Kentucky |
| Died | October 2, 1912 (aged 60) New York City, New York |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1873–1912 |
| Rank | Rear Admiral |
| Commands held | |
| Battles/wars | Spanish–American War |
Lucien Young (31 March 1852 – 2 October 1912) was an admiral of the United States Navy. His active-duty career included service in the Spanish–American War.
Young was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on 31 March 1852. He was appointed a midshipman on 21 June 1869 and served in the practice ships Dale, Savannah, and Constellation before graduating from the United States Naval Academy on 31 May 1873.
Young was detached from Alaska at Lisbon, Portugal, and soon joined Hartford. Commissioned as ensign on 16 July 1874, he joined Powhatan—on the North Atlantic Station—on 10 December of the following year.
Subsequently, Young was ordered to Huron, where he served until her tragic grounding off Nags Head, North Carolina, on 24 November 1877.
The ship, en route to Cuban waters for survey duty, foundered shortly after 01:00 on the 24th. Ensign Young and an enlisted man, Seaman Antoine Williams, struggled ashore through the tumbling surf and gained the beach. Not receiving much assistance from an apparently apathetic group of bystanders, Young sent a horseman off at a gallop for a life-saving depot seven miles away while he, himself, although bruised and barefoot, walked four miles to yet another station, and, apparently finding it unmanned, broke in and got out mortar lines and powder for a Lyle gun. The sheriff of the locality then took Williams and Young to a point abreast the wreck. By the time they arrived, however, the 34 survivors had already reached shore.
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