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Show I. ASSIGNED BY SEGBETAR? MEYER few Commanders of Many of the Battleships hy Keasou of the Changes. WASHINGTON". March 9. Many im-ortant im-ortant asslsmnMits of naval officers to uty were announced by Secretary Mey-rCapiaJn Mey-rCapiaJn John T. Newton Is detacher rom the battleship Nebraska and ordered 3 command tho Portsmouth. N. II.. naVy ard C'altaln DeWIU Coffninn Is du-iclied du-iclied from the command of the battle-Ith) battle-Ith) New Jersey and assigned to duty as oniiiiaiidanl of the Boston navy yard aptaln Thomas Uogers u detached rom command of the battleship New ainpshlrc and made commandant of the Norfolk navy yard In place of Captain anics P. Parker. Captain Thomas Snowden is detached om the Inspection bourd and ordered to am.nand the battleship South Carolina j place of Captain A. F. Fecluler Cap-iln Cap-iln George It. Clark Is transferred from ie command of the battleship Iowa to ie Minnesota In place or Commander TlUIaru It. SIrns, who will go to the naval ar college. Captain Edward Lloyd is detached from ic command of tho receiving ship Wa-ash Wa-ash and placed In command of the bat-eshlp bat-eshlp Kansas. In place of Captain harles J. nadper. Captain James P. Parker, upon being llevcd as captain of tho Norfolk navy ird, will take command of the battle-lip battle-lip Nebraska In place of Captain John . Newton. Captain Washington T. Chambers, who is been In charge of naval aeronautical ork, will become captain of the battle-llp battle-llp Louisiana, relieving Captain Albert Wlnterhalter. Commander Frank V. ellogfc will take command of the battle-dp battle-dp Maine when she goes Into oommls-on; oommls-on; Commander Frederick L. Chapln. to naval attache at London, will be-imc be-imc captain of tho Missouri. Commander W. W. Buchanan Is reeved re-eved from duty as Inspector of the sec-id sec-id llghthousn district at Boston and III command the Ohio. Captain Robort . Lopez Is detached from board cf sur-;y. sur-;y. San Francisco, and will take com-and com-and of the armored cruiser Maryland In ace of Captain James C. Glllmore and ommandcr Charles C. Marsh, now on ity in the navy department, will reave re-ave Captain Clifford J. Boush of the mmand of tho cruiser North Carolina. Captain H. T. Mayo, now commandant ' the navy yard at Mare Island, will icceed Admiral Hugo Ostcrhaus as com-andant com-andant of that yard. The fleet changes 111 take place after tho April practice. |