The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-04
2 BATTLE FORCES
IN ATLANTIC FLEET
Navy Department Explains
New Organization Of Ma
TONS Sea Fighters.
SAILS TO-DAY FOR CUBA
235 Destroyers Are Divided
Into 33 DivisiOns-15
Dreadnoughts Leave.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.--With tire Al
lantic feet ready 20 depart tomorrow
from Hampton Roads for Guantanamo
BAY, cuba, for It's frst nanpuvres
since the nation entered the war. the
Navy Department tonight made public
a detailed statement showing the reo--
ganization OF the force. together with
the composition OF the Pacific ard
Asletic fleets. Alta ched TO the Atlan'ic
organization are a cruiser squadron and
a great feet of destroyers as well as
submarine and mine squa drons. a large
supply train and an air detachmen'.
Battleship Force No. 2. commanded h.
Vice Admiral II. p. Wilson. is .Ft mai0
fghtlng force Of the nation and In 1t ara
all of the dreadnoughts now In commits
sion-fitteen In number. a sixteenth. tina
Tennessee, soon to be completed, als' II
attached, making four divisions Of four
ships each.
In BattIeshlp Force No ]. under Vice
Admiral 4. w. Grant, are tUenty-'o0r
of the older battleshlps of the navy.
ranging from the Iowa, Indiana and
Massa chusetts Of Spanish War fame -
the Michigan and South Carolina, TO
first all big gun ships OF the navy hut
not Of sufficient gun power or tonnage e
be rated as dreadnoughs.
Mayo on the Pennsylvania.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Command.
ir-Chiet OF the Atlantic fleet, retains hs
flag on the dreadnought Pennsylvania.
The ships Of this force are ATTACHED -
squadron .. Rear Admiral Hugh Rod
man commanding. and are organized into
Divisions 5, &. and g, with ships of sim
liar speed and gun power assign -
each division as far as possible.
In Division ., Commanded by Rear
Admiral f. W. Eberle, are the TAR
DE aware, North Dakota and F;orida !"
Division 6, Admiral Rodman command
ing are the New York. Texas, Wyoming
and Arkansas In DIVISION ltear
Admiral r, F.. Coontz. the Tennessee 90
be commissioned. Idaho. Oklahoma and
Nevada, and in Division e. Nice-Adn!raI
H. r. Wilson commanding. ARE q"
New Mexico. Arizona, Mississippi ard
Pennsylvania.
Ba.,leship force No is similarly
organized on the has OF the characts-is-
tics OF the ships. The division commar !.
ers are Rear Admirals c. b Britain, II.
A. Wiley. Roger Wells. Thomas Wash
ington, W. r. Shoemaker and Ntce-.id-
miral Grant, who also commands the
force
Three Divisions in Cruiser Force.
As now organized the cruiser farce.
commanded BY V!ce-Admiral Albert n.
Gleaves Is composed OF three divisions.
with Capts J. r. w. Blakley, G. r.
Bradshaw and W. l.. Littleieid In div!-
sional commands. In the first division
are the Seattle. North Carolina. Montana
and Huntington. In the second the F!t's-
burg, Pueblo, Frederick and South VA
kota. and in the third the Charleston,
s.. Louis and Rochester, Some OF these
ships also are engaged In bringing troopa
from France.
Assigned 70 the destroyer force u~Ger
Rear Admiral c. =. Piunkett are .55
vessels. including several indicated only
by their building number. They are
grouped In thirty-.hree divisions, aver
aging about six destroyers TO a d!v!,i y
with the scout cruisers Birnl!ngha' \.
Salem and Chester az nsgshi?s 60 40
three fot!llas into which the whole 800
is divided. Rear Admiral a. " r. .-"''
son, on the salem. commands F'o'' d.
In this and in Fiotila . are g.
the newest and swl,test destro%e-.
Tho mine forces OF III" Zee ...-
manded by Rear Admiral JOSEPH So .s'
Is composed of a mine laying sl9a OBJ"
including the old cruisers san Fra
and Baltimore and the steamers .t---S-
took and Shawmut and three g.
OF mine sw'eepers.
Makeup OF Fleet Trntu
The feet train. commanded =. 20 -
Admiral II. i. Huse, flagship 7 =
Supply, Is composed OF three s'ur .'.
ammunition ships, three hpspta! ,...r-.
two supply ships and eightcs" -.
ships.
The Pacific feet, Admiral - r
Caperton. is shown 10 include 'Ne p.
mored cruisers the Denver and Tt -r.r1,
the protected cruiser ClevelRcl. H. ~
vision I. and In Division ., Rear A.
mral w F. Fullam. are the h6 ..
Oregon. cruiser Minneapolis and tha -IH-
boats V,cksburg. Rainier, Rroadht.l I'af
Ocean. Challenge, Msrblehead, Forward
and Yorktown.
The Asiatic fleet. Rear Admiral u, =.
Rodgers. has two divisions in vhj'N s-@
the old cruisers Brooklyn. New orlN'04
and Albany and twelve cunboats N|'3
this feet also are nine o: the oldest q 1-
marines In the navy, with the Old U-0'"