Ships
- USS Evans (DD-552) Captain, 1 November 1944 – 12 March 1945
Bosquet Neill Wev was born in Richmond, Virginia, on 8 November 1903, the elder son of Oscar Neill Wev, a Navy chief electrician, and Nellie D. Bosquet. His father died in 1906 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, and Wev grew up in Richmond. His younger brother, Oscar Cottman Buckingham Wev, later became a Coast Guard captain. Wev graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1927 and, on 8 August 1927 in Annapolis, married Elizabeth Conrad Robinson. They had a son, Bosquet Neill Wev Jr., and a daughter, Constance.
As a young officer he served in the Pacific with his family. In March 1931 he came home from the Philippine Islands to San Francisco on the Army transport U.S. Grant. His sea duty also included the battleship Colorado. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June 1936 and to lieutenant commander on 1 January 1942.
His first wartime command was the older destroyer Noa (DD-343). He reported aboard in October 1941 and was commanding officer from 5 January 1942 until October 1942.
On 1 November 1944 he relieved Floyd Charles Camp and became captain of the Fletcher-class destroyer Evans (DD-552). He remained in command through the winter of 1944–1945 and left the ship on 12 March 1945. On 20 March 1945 he was promoted to temporary captain.
Robert John Archer succeeded him in Evans. On 11 May 1945, off Okinawa, Japanese kamikaze aircraft struck the destroyer and 32 of her crew were lost. She was kept afloat, patched at Kerama Retto, and towed to San Francisco. John E. Pace had command when she was decommissioned there on 7 November 1945. The Navy struck her from the list later that month, and she was sold for scrap on 11 February 1947. Wev’s own wartime decorations were the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
After the war the War Department made him director of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, the office that screened German scientists and technicians for work in the United States. He afterward commanded the naval base at Norfolk. He retired on 30 June 1957 as a rear admiral and became executive vice president of the newly formed Constellation Life Insurance Company.
Wev died in Boynton Beach, Florida, on 4 June 1979, at the age of 75. He was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis. His son followed him into the Navy and retired as a commander after a career in submarines.