Pacific Fleet (U.S. Navy)
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The Pacific Fleet was a formation of the U.S. Navy serving on the Pacific Station.
Contents
Institution and Background
It was created in 1907 when the Asiatic Squadron and the Pacific Squadron were combined.
In 1910, the ships of the Fleet's First Squadron were calved into a new, separate Asiatic Fleet.
Composition
In Command
- Rear Admiral Christopher R. P. Rodgers, After 1 July, 1878[1] – October, 1880[2] (office is Commanding Pacific Station)
- Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, 1887 – 1889[3]
- Rear Admiral George Brown, 25 January, 1890[4] – 9 January, 1893[5]
- Rear Admiral Albert Kautz, 15 October, 1898[6]
- Rear Admiral William T. Swinburne, 22 July, 1907 – 17 May, 1909 (office is now Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet)
- Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree, 17 May, 1909 – 19 February, 1910
- Rear Admiral Giles B. Harber, 19 February, 1910 – early January, 1911
- Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry, early January, 1911 – 15 January, 1911
- Rear Admiral Chauncey Thomas, Jr., 15 January, 1911 – 1912
- Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland, 1912 – March, 1913
- Rear Admiral Walter C. Cowles, March, 1913 – January, 1914
- Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, January, 1914 – 13 September, 1915
- Admiral Cameron M. Winslow, 13 September, 1915 – 29 July, 1916
- Admiral William B. Caperton, 29 July, 1916 – 30 April, 1919
- Admiral Hugh Rodman, 1 July, 1919 – 5 July, 1921
- Admiral Edward W. Eberle, 5 July, 1921 – 6 December, 1922
- Admiral Edward W. Eberle, 6 December, 1922 – 30 June, 1923 (office now Commander-in-Chief, Battle Fleet)
- Admiral Samuel S. Robison, 30 June, 1923 – 14 October, 1925
- Admiral Charles F. Hughes, 14 October, 1925 – 4 September, 1926
- Admiral Richard H. Jackson, 4 September, 1926 – 10 September, 1927
- Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer, 10 September, 1927 – 21 May, 1928
- Admiral William Veazie Pratt, 26 June 1928 – 21 May, 1929
- Admiral Louis M. Nulton, 21 May, 1929 – 24 May, 1930
- Admiral Frank H. Schofield, 24 May, 1930 – 1 April, 1931
- Admiral Frank H. Schofield, 1 April, 1931 – 11 August, 1932 (office is now Commander, Battle Force)
Footnotes
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1879. pp. 10-11.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1881. pp. 10-11.
- ↑ Hamersly. Living Officers 1898. p. 23.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1891. pp. 4-5, 139.
- ↑ The San Francisco Call 12 January, 1893 p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 6.
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