Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-30
FIGHTING VESSELS
 OF THE NAVY Plans For Organization 80 That They Can Be Easily
 mobiIized READY FOR EMERGENCIES Battleship Connecticut is in First Division of the Atlantic
 Fleet.

pleteQ plans TOT the OrganlZatlOn or the fighting vessels of the navy in two fleets for service on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States in such manner that the whole force may be readily mobilized in cases of emergency, is announced by Rear Admiral Converse, chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy de- partment. in his annual report made public to-day. The concentration of the battle fleet in the American wa ters and the assignment of all vessels therein to the command of one flag officer will be completed about Janu- ary l next. Rear Admiral Converse said that owing to our responsibilities in the Philippines and the far east generally an adequate naval force is needed in the Pacific ocean. The as signment of the ships of the battle line to Atlantic waters and of cruis- CTS and gunboats to Pacific waters is in accordance with present strategic requirements.
 The tentative assignment of vessels is as follows:
 Atlantic feet-First squadron, first division: Connecticut, Louisi- ana, Maine, Missouri.
 Second division: Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia.
 Second squadron, third division: Alabama, Illinois. Kearsarge. Ken lucky.
 Fourth division: Ohio, Indiana, Iowa.
 Third squadron, fifth division Tennessee, Washington, St Louis.
 Sixth division: Columbia, Des Moines, Cleveland, Tacoma.
 Fourth squadron. seventh division: Dixie, Marietta, Newport, Don Juan de Austria.
 Eighth division: Prairie. Du- buque, Paducah. Scorpion.
 The seventh and eighth divisions will be, held in reserve when their services are no longer required for police and patrol duty. - In reserve: Texas, Brooklyn.
 Second torpedo fiotilla: Hopkins. Lawrence. MacDonough. Whipple. Truxton. Worden.
 Third torpedo fotilla: Wilkes, Blakely, De Long. Rodgers. Stock ton.
 Asiatic fleet: First squadron. first division. West Virginia. Maryland. Pennsylvania, Colorado.
 Second division: Baltimore, Chat tanooga. Galveston. Cincinnati.
 Second squadron. third division: Raleigh, Concord, Helena, Whining ton.
 Fourth division: Callao. Fl Cano. Quiros villalobos.
 Coast defense: Monterey. Monad- mock.
 First torpedo fiotilla: Bainbridge, Barry. Dale. Chauncsy. Decatur.
 Pacific squadron: First squadron, first division. Charleston. Milwaukee, Albany, New Orleans.
 Second division: Chicago, York town, Boston, Princeton.
 Fourth torpedo fiotilla: Preble. Paul Jones. Perry, Farragut, Colds borough. Rowan.
 At an early date it is expected the Asiatic fleet and the Pacific squadron will be merged into one Pacific fleet under the supreme command of a flag officer of the highest rank in the same manner as the Atlantic fleet is now organized. The bureau of navigation is making every en- deavor to secure battleship strength of sixteen in the Atlantic feet, di- vided into two squadrons. which will furnish every opportunity for the practice of battle tactics. and will en- able the higher officers to acquire fa- cility in the exercise of a large feet, | and in maneuvering one homogeneous squadron against another.