Asa Walker

Rear Admiral Asa Walker (1845–1916) was a career officer in the United States Navy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He commanded the gunboat USS Concord (PG-3) at the Battle of Manila Bay and served as superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory.

Biography Walker was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on November 13, 1845. He entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, on November 21, 1862, and graduated on June 6, 1866.

After graduating he served more than a year on the USS Sacramento, from which he was assigned to the Portsmouth Navy Yard as an ordnance officer. In 1868 he went to the Pacific station, where he served three years, doing duty on the Rosana, Lackawanna, Saranac, and Jamestown. While in these assignments Walker was commissioned an ensign on March 12, 1868; a master on March 26, 1869; and a lieutenant on March 21, 1870. He is buried in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.