Ships
- USS Edsall (DD-219) Captain, 18 December 1924 – 25 October 1927
Lemuel Earl Lindsay was born on 18 September 1887. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1909 and spent his career in the United States Navy, advancing to captain on 1 December 1937. In the middle of the 1920s he was a lieutenant commander, and he held that rank while he commanded Edsall.
Edsall (DD-219) was a Clemson-class destroyer from the building program at the end of the First World War. William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia laid her keel on 15 September 1919 and launched her on 29 July 1920. She was named for Norman Eckley Edsall, a seaman killed on 1 April 1899 while serving with a landing party near Apia, Samoa. His sister, Bessie Edsall Bracey, sponsored the ship. The Navy commissioned Edsall at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 26 November 1920, with A. H. Rice in command.
Lindsay relieved Robert Todd Young and took command on 18 December 1924. He remained commanding officer until 25 October 1927. Through those years Edsall served with the Asiatic Fleet in East Asian waters, the station she held from the early 1920s onward. The commanding officers before Young included Halsey Powell, Harry Robert Bogusch, and William Callender Irving Stiles.
Jules James followed Lindsay in command. In the years afterward Edsall was also commanded by Thomas Cross Slingluff, Byron Scott Dague, and Bruce Pepper Flood. The destroyer stayed on the Asiatic Station while Lindsay moved on to larger ships.
From October 1940 to February 1942 Lindsay commanded the battleship Colorado, and he was her captain when the United States entered the Second World War. Edsall, which he had commanded from December 1924 to October 1927, was sunk on 1 March 1942 south of Java, and the men aboard her were lost.