The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-04
FLEET READY FOR
 FIRST MANEUVERS
 SINCE WAR BEGAN
Departments State ment Shows ReOrganiza- tiOn of Force and Com
 position of Fleets

Washington, February 3.-With
 the Atlantic fleet ready to depart
 this week from Hampton Roads
 for Guantanamo hay, Cuba. for it's
 first maneuvers since the nation
 entered the war. the navy depart
 ment tonight made public a de-
 tailed statement showing the re-
 organization of the force together
 with the composition of the Pa
 cific and Atlantic fleets.
 Attached to the Atlantic organiza- tion are cruiser squadron and great fleet of destroyers, as well as submarine and mine squadrons, large supply train and an air detachment.
 Battleship Force No. g. commanded by Vice Admiral H. B. Wilson, is the main fighting force of the nation, and in it are all of the dreadnaughts now in commission-15 in number A sixteenth, the Tennessee, soon to be completed. also Is attached, making four divisions of four ships each.
 FORCE NO. 1
 In Battleship Force No l, under Vice Admiral Grant, are If of the old pat tleships of the navy, ranging from the Iowa, Indiana and Massachusetts oI Spanish war fame to the Michigan anu South Carolina, the first all-big gun ships of the navy, but not of sufficient gun power or tonnage to be rated as dreadnaughts.
 Most of the ships of Battleship Force No. are employed now in bringing troops home from France, while others are assigned for training engineers for the merchant marine. During the spring maneuvers, however, some of this force will be employed at gunnery exercise.
 Admiral Henry T. Mayo, commander in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, retains his flag on the dreadnaught Pennsyl- vania. The ships of this force are at tached to Squadron No. 3, Rear Ad- miral Hugh Rodman commanding, and are organizing into Divisions 5, 6. and with ships of similar speed and gunpower assigned to each division as far as possible
 DIVISION FIVE
 In Division 5, commanded by Rear Admiral F. w. Eberle, are the Utah Delaware, North Dakota and Florida in Division 6, Admiral Rodman com manding, are the New York, Texas Wyoming and Arkansas in Division T. Rear Admiral R. F. -Coontz, the Ten nessee (to be commissioned, Idaho Oklahoma and NeVada. ana Tn DlNislol 8, Vice Admiral H. B. Wilson com manding, are the New Mexico, Arizona Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
 Battleship Force No. is similarly or- ganized on the basis of the characteris- tics of the ships and the division com manders are Rear Admirals c B. Brit tain, H. A. Wiley, Roger Wells, Thomas Washington, w. R. Shoemaker and Vice Admiral Grant, who also commands the force.
 As now organized the cruiser force commanded by Vice Admiral Albert H Gleaves is composed of three divisions with Captains J. R. W. Blakely, G. B Bradshaw and w. L. Littlefield in d visional commands. In the first divl- sion are the Seattle, North Carolina Montana and Huntington, in the sec ond, the Pittsburgh, Pueblo, F'rederict and South Dakota, and in the third the Charleston, St Louis and Rochester Some of these ships also are engaged in bringing troops from France. DESTROYER FORCE
 Assigned to the destroyer force under Rear Admiral c. P. Plunkett are 2S5 vessels, including several indicated only