Harry Shepard Knapp

Harry Shepard Knapp (June 27, 1856 – April 6, 1923) was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy, Military Governor of Santo Domingo, and Military Representative of the United States in Haiti.

Biography Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Knapp graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 20 June 1878. After serving in screw steamer , as cadet midshipman, and in the steam frigate and the sloop as a midshipman, he was commissioned as ensign on 8 July 1882. Following assignments to a number of ships and stations ashore, Knapp was an executive officer on a gunboat at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. Having attended the Naval War College in 1897, he returned there as a faculty member after the war. From 1906 to 1907, he attended the Army War College. Outstanding service in a variety of important billets afloat and ashore was rewarded on 3 August 1908 when Knapp assumed command of the protected cruiser .

Promoted to captain in 1909, Knapp was assigned to the General Board on 8 January 1910. At about this time he served intermittently on the Joint Army and Navy Board for Defense of the Panama Canal. From 1910 to 1911, Knapp was commanding officer of the armored cruiser . His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered at sea after a funeral service at his home in Hartford attended by his Naval Academy classmate Rear Admiral W. L. Rodgers.

Namesake The was named in his honor.