Ships
- USS Miami (CL-89) Captain from 9 December 1945 · Relieved on 15 November 1946
Robert Bolton Jr. had Miami (CL-89) after the war, from 9 December 1945 until 15 November 1946. The fighting was over. The ship was training reservists on the California coast, then preparing for the reserve fleet. He left the Navy a captain and spent the next twenty years at Culver Military Academy.
Uboat.net and the Culver Citizen of 14 August 1969 both give his birth as 29 August 1896. The newspaper places it in Newark, New Jersey. Uboat.net leaves the place blank. Nothing fetched names his parents.
Uboat.net heads him USNA 1920. Its rank line fits that class: midshipman on 16 June 1916, ensign on 7 June 1919, lieutenant (junior grade) on 7 June 1922, lieutenant on 7 June 1925, lieutenant commander on 1 June 1935, commander on 1 July 1939, temporary captain on 18 June 1942. The Culver Citizen says he was a graduate of the Naval Academy and of the Naval War College, that he served thirty years as a commissioned line officer, and that he taught in the Department of Engineering at the Naval Academy. It says he served in both world wars and held the Bronze Star with Combat "V." It does not name the action. NavSource's list for CL-89 gives no class year and no final rank.
Uboat.net does not list Miami. It lists one wartime command on that page: Pittsburgh (CA-72), temporary captain, from 3 September 1945 to 16 December 1945. NavSource and the DANFS table both put him in Miami in that same December. NavSource starts him on 9 December 1945 and relieves him on 15 November 1946. DANFS runs him from 9 December 1945 to 14 November 1946. A NavSource photograph caption dates the change of command at Mare Island, with Commander John T. Wulff, the executive officer, to 15 November 1946. The command lines follow NavSource. The overlap with the Pittsburgh end date on uboat.net is not resolved. DANFS says that after Miami reached Long Beach on 10 December 1945 she trained naval reservists on the California coast until decommissioning. His tour is that duty. Uboat.net says he retired on 1 July 1949.
The Culver Citizen says his Culver career began in 1949, as cavalry counselor and mathematics instructor. In 1950 he was executive officer of the summer schools' naval staff. He became director of the Naval School in the summer of 1959. He retired from the winter-school faculty in 1961 and stayed on as director of the Summer Naval School until 1968. The paper of 14 August 1969 reports that he died of a heart attack at 9 p.m. on a Thursday, aged 72, while he and his wife, Frances, were visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Seth Shepard, in San Francisco. The paper does not print the calendar date of that Thursday. Services were at the Bolton Priory in Pelham, New York. He had been a vestryman of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church in Plymouth. The survivors named are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Ted Davies of Coconut Grove, Florida, and a son, Robert, then a senior at Culver.