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Show POWERFUL FLEET FOR THEPACIFIC Naval Force of Great Strength To Be Maintained Hereafter Here-after in West. WASHINGTON, June 26 Final organization or-ganization of the, Atlantic and Pacific fleets made public today shows that In accordance with the navy department's announced policy a naval force of great strength hereafter will be maintained In the Pacific, including a number of the latest and most powerful ships in ihe navy Rear Admiral Hillary P. Jones will be vice admiral of thv Atlantic At-lantic fleet and Vice Admiral C. S, Williams will be second in command in the Pacific. Headed by the flagship, the dread- naught New Mexico, the battleships in the Pacific fleet will be as follows: Wyoming Arkansas, New York, Tex- iA8, Arizona, Idaho. Mississippi, Virgi nia. New Jersey, Rhode Island, Georgia, Geor-gia, Nebraska and Vermont. The cruiser force of the west coast fleet will be composed of: Seattle, flagship: Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Tacoma, Marblehead Machias, Vicks- I burg. Montana, North Carolina and j Pueblo One hundred and eight torpedo boat destroyers will be attached to the Pacific Pa-cific fleet, half of them n active cruising cruis-ing duty at all times with full complements comple-ments and the remainder in reserve with skeleton crews. The scout cruiser cruis-er Birmingham will be flagship of the active flotilla with the Melville, Prai-rlo Prai-rlo and Buffalo as tenders The cruiser cruis-er Salem will be flagship of the reserve re-serve flotilla with the Blackbawk as tender. There will be fourteen submarines, mostly of the latest types, attached to the Pacific fleet with the submarine tenders Savannah and Beaver as mother moth-er hips Two mine laers, the Baltl more and roostook; twelve minesweepers; mine-sweepers; two hospital ships, the Comfort Com-fort and Mercy; one repair ship, the Vestal; three supply ships, seven fuel ships, a target repair ship, a radio repair ship and ten powerful tugs complete com-plete the Pacific naval forces. On the Atlantic side, the Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia will continue to fly the admiral's Hag The other battleships will be the Utah, Florida, Delaware, North Dakota. Dako-ta. Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Connecticut. Con-necticut. Louisiana, New Hampshire. Kansas. Minnesota, South Carolina and Michigan. The Atlantic cruiser squadron will be composed of the Huntington, flag-hip; flag-hip; Niagara, Wheeling, Topeka, ('astine, South Dakota, Frederick and Pittsburg. The Rochester will be flagship of the Atlantic destroyer force, which will consist of 108 vessels, ialf of them in reserve. The scout cruiser Chester will be flagship of the reserve squadron. The tenders to the Atlantic destroyer force will be ihe Dixie, Bridgepori, Panther and two vessels now under construction. |