Ships
- USS Edsall (DD-219) Captain, 2 February 1939 – 15 June 1940
Abel Charles Jules Sabalot was born on 10 April 1897 in California and served as an officer in the United States Navy. As a lieutenant commander he was captain of the destroyer Edsall (DD-219) from 2 February 1939 to 15 June 1940.
Edsall was a Clemson-class destroyer built by William Cramp and Sons at Philadelphia. Launched on 29 July 1920 and commissioned on 26 November 1920, she spent her career on the Asiatic Station. Captains of the ship before Sabalot included A. H. Rice, Halsey Powell, Harry Robert Bogusch, William Callender Irving Stiles, Robert Todd Young, Lemuel Earl Lindsay, Jules James, Thomas Cross Slingluff, and Byron Scott Dague.
His own tour came in the last stretch of peace in the Pacific. War began in Europe in September 1939 while Edsall remained with the Asiatic Fleet, and Sabalot left the ship on 15 June 1940, more than a year before the United States entered the war.
Edsall stayed in the Far East after he departed. Lieutenant Commander Joshua J. Nix was in command when Japanese warships and carrier aircraft sank her on 1 March 1942, south of Christmas Island, and her company was lost with the ship.
Sabalot remained in the Navy and held the rank of captain during the war. From 31 May 1943 until 1945 he was held by Germany at the Brenners Park Hotel in Baden-Baden, a civilian internment camp, and he was repatriated when the war in Europe ended. His captivity is recognized by the Prisoner of War Medal. He died on 2 July 1972 in Annapolis, Maryland, and was buried in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.