Charles Emerson Hovey was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 10 January 1885. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in May 1903, graduating in June 1907 with the rank of Midshipman. During the next three years he was assigned to the battleships Ohio and Idaho. Promoted to Ensign in June 1909, and transferred to the Asiatic Fleet in 1910, he served in Philippines waters with the gunboats Mindoro and Pampanga. On 24 September 1911, while leading a landing force at Lapurap, Basilan, Ensign Charles E. Hovey was killed in action with hostile Moros.
USS Hovey (Destroyer # 208, later DD-208 and DMS-11), 1919-1945, was named in honor of Ensign Hovey.
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