Atlantic Torpedo Fleet
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The Atlantic Torpedo Fleet was a formation in the United States Navy created in the year 1909 or 1910.
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Fleet Commanders
- 2.1 First Group Commanders
- 2.2 Second Group Commanders
- 2.3 Third Division Commanders
- 2.4 Fourth Group Commanders
- 2.5 Fifth Group Commanders
- 2.6 Seventh Division Commanders
- 2.7 Eighth Division Commanders
- 2.8 Ninth Division Commanders
- 2.9 Tenth Division Commanders
- 2.10 First Submarine Division/Group Commanders
- 2.11 Second Submarine Group Commanders
- 2.12 Third Submarine Division Commanders
- 3 Footnotes
- 4 Bibliography
- 5 See Also
History
The Fleet was formed some time during 1909 or 1910, as it is first mentioned in the 1911 Officer Register and this editor has not located a 1910 copy.
January, 1911
The new formation was as follows, Bonita, Snapper, Stingray and Tarpon being temporarily attached to the Third Submarine Division from the Second.[1]
Seventh Torpedo Division | |||||||||||
Leader | |||||||||||
Smith | |||||||||||
Destroyers | |||||||||||
Flusser | Lamson | Preston | Reid | ||||||||
First Submarine Division | |||||||||||
Leader | |||||||||||
Cuttlefish | |||||||||||
Submarines | |||||||||||
Tarantula | Viper | ||||||||||
Third Submarine Division | |||||||||||
Leader | |||||||||||
Grayling | |||||||||||
Submarines | |||||||||||
Bonita* | Narwhal | Salmon | |||||||||
Snapper* | Stingray* | Tarpon* |
January, 1912
The Fleet is not listed by Divisions in the Register of 1912. The strength is now twenty of the most modern destroyers, seven submarines and three tenders.[2]
Atlantic Torpedo Fleet | |||||||||||
Destroyers | |||||||||||
Ammen | Burrows | Drayton | Flusser | Lamson | Mayrant | ||||||
McCall | Monaghan | Patterson | Paulding | Perkins | Preston | ||||||
Reid | Roe | Smith | Sterett | Terry | Trippe | ||||||
Walke | Warrington | ||||||||||
Submarines | |||||||||||
C-2 | C-3 | C-4 | C-5 | ||||||||
D-1 | D-2 | D-3 | |||||||||
Tenders | |||||||||||
Castine | Dixie | Severn |
Fleet Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander George W. Williams, 8 May, 1911[3][4][Inference]
- Commander Edward W. Eberle, 8 May, 1911[5] – after 1 January, 1912[6]
- Captain William S. Sims, 5 June, 1913[7] – after 1 January, 1915[8]
First Group Commanders
- Lieutenant William F. Halsey, Jr., 20 August, 1912[9] – after 1 January, 1913[10]
Second Group Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Woodward, 1912[11] – after 1 January, 1913[12]
Third Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander William L. Littlefield, 6 December, 1912[13] – after 1 January, 1913[14]
Fourth Group Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander Franck T. Evans, 1912[15] – after 1 January, 1913[16]
Fifth Group Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander Edwin H. DeLany, 15 June, 1912[17] – after 1 January, 1913[18]
Seventh Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander George C. Day, before 1 January, 1911[19] – 1911[20][21]
- Lieutenant Commander John S. Doddridge, 1911[22][23] – after 1 January, 1912[24]
Eighth Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander Kenneth M. Bennett, 1911[25] – after 1 January, 1912[26]
Ninth Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander James P. Morton, 1911[27] – after 1 January, 1912[28]
Tenth Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Commander John McC. Luby, 1911[29] – after 1 January, 1912[30]
First Submarine Division/Group Commanders
- Ensign Alfred H. Miles, before 1 January, 1911[31]
- Lieutenant Lewis D. Causey, 12 December, 1912[32] – after 1 January, 1913[33]
Second Submarine Group Commanders
- Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Claudius R. Hyatt, 1912[34] – after 1 January, 1913[35]
Third Submarine Division Commanders
- Lieutenant Donald C. Bingham, 1910[36] – 1911[37][38]
- Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Warren G. Child, 1911[39][40] – after 1 January, 1912[41]
Footnotes
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 235-236.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. pp. 230-232.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 30.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 30.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 18.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 22.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 46.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 36.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 36.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 40.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 40.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 30. Formation is new that year.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 30.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 44.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 30.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 44.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 44.
Bibliography
See Also