| THE UNITED STATES FLEET War Mobilization Organization 1923 |
| UNITED STATES FLEET SEATTLE - Fleet Flagship |
| BATTLE FLEET, U.S. FLEET CALIFORNIA - Battle Fleet Flagship |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISIONS, BATTLE FLEET NEW MEXICO - Flagship |
| ARIZONA (F) NEVADA MISSISSIPPI PENNSYLVANIA |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION THREE |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION FOUR |
| NEW YORK (F) TEXAS OKLAHOMA CALIFORNIA |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION FIVE |
| NEW MEXICO (F) IDAHO TENNESSEE MARYLAND |
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| The July 1, 1923 Navy Directory includes a second organization table, showing how the full USN would be organized if it needed to be mobilized in the event of war. I include it for comparison to the active organization shown in the rest of the 1923 pages on this site. Since this is a theoretical organization I have not included the names of commanding/flag officers as I have done elsewhere, nor have I included ship designations (for example, DD-213). |
| LIGHT CRUISER DIVISION, BATTLE FLEET |
| RICHMOND (F) OMAHA MILWAUKEE CINCINNATI |
| CRUISER DIVISION TWO |
| DESTROYER SQUADRONS, BATTLE FLEET CHARLESTON - Flagship ALTAIR, MELVILLE, RIGEL - Tenders |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON FOUR WELLES - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION ELEVEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWELVE |
| WICKES PHILIP EVANS BUCHANAN AARON WARD |
| TARBELL YARNALL UPSHUR GREER ELLIOTT ROPER |
| RATHBURNE TALBOT WATERS DENT DORSEY LEA |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON FIVE AULICK - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTEEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FOURTEEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FIFTEEN |
| LAMBERTON RADFORD MONTGOMERY BREESE GAMBLE RAMSEY |
| TATNALL BADGER TWIGGS BABBITT JACOB JONES |
| BOGGS KILTY KENNISON WARD CLAXTON HAMILTON |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON SIX TURNER - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION SIXTEEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION SEVENTEEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION EIGHTEEN |
| SCHLEY CHAMPLIN MUGFORD CHEW HAZELWOOD WILLIAMS |
| CRANE PALMER THATCHER WALKER CROSBY |
| MACKENZIE RENSHAW O'BANNON HOGAN HOWARD STANSBURY |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON TEN GILLIS - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-EIGHT |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-NINE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY |
| LAUB McLANAHAN EDWARDS GREENE BALLARD SHUBRICK |
| BAILEY THORNTON MORRIS TINGEY SWASEY MEADE |
| SINCLAIR McCAWLEY MOODY HENSHAW MEYER DOYEN |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON ELEVEN DELPHY - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-ONE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-TWO |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-THREE |
| CHAUNCY FULLER PERCIVAL JOHN FRANCIS BURNS FARRAGUT SOMERS |
| STODDERT RENO FARQUHAR THOMPSON KENNEDY PAUL HAMILTON |
| WILLIAM JONES WOODBURY S. P. LEE NICHOLAS YOUNG ZEILIN |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON TWELVE McDERMUT - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-FOUR |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-FIVE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-SIX |
| YARBOROUGH LAVALLETTE SLOAT WOOD SHIRK KIDDER |
| SELFRIDGE MARCUS MERVINE CHASE ROBERT SMITH MULLANY |
| HULL MACONOUGH FARENHOLT SUMNER CORRY MELVIN |
| Note: Less such destroyer divisions detailed to the Asiatic Fleet (see below) to maintain that fleet with three divisions and a squadron leader. |
| SUBMARINE DIVISIONS, PACIFIC CANOPUS, BEAVER, BUSHNELL, HOLLAND (when completed) - Tenders |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION THREE |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION NINE |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION FOURTEEN |
| S-18 S-19 S-20 |
| R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4 R-5 R-6 R-7 R-8 R-10 |
| R-11 R-12 R-13 R-14 R-15 R-16 R-17 R-18 R-19 R-20 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION SIXTEEN |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION SEVENTEEN |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION NINETEEN |
| S-30 S-31 S-32 S-33 S-34 S-35 S-45 S-46 S-47 |
| S-36 S-37 S-38 S-39 S-40 S-41 S-42 S-43 S-44 |
| ? ? ? |
| AIR SQUADRONS, BATTLE FLEET |
| LANGLEY (F) GANNET - tender aircraft as assigned SARATOGA - when completed |
| SCOUTING FLEET, U.S. FLEET WYOMING - Scouting Fleet Flagship |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISIONS, SCOUTING FLEET WYOMING - Flagship |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION ONE |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION TWO |
| FLORIDA (F) UTAH NORTH DAKOTA |
| WYOMING (F) ARKANSAS DELAWARE |
| LIGHT CRUISER DIVISIONS, SCOUTING FLEET CONCORD - Flagship |
| CRUISER DIVISION ONE |
| CRUISER DIVISION THREE |
| CRUISER DIVISION FOUR |
| BIRMINGHAM (F) CHESTER SALEM |
| CONCORD (F) TRENTON MEMPHIS |
| MARBLEHEAD (F) RALEIGH DETROIT |
| DESTROYER SQUADRONS, SCOUTING FLEET ROCHESTER - Flagship DENEBOLA, BLACKHAWK, BRIDGEPORT, DOBBIN - Tenders |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON TWO LEARY - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FOUR |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FIVE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION SIX |
| SHAW SAMPSON ROWAN DAVIS ALLEN WILKES |
| WADSWORTH MANLEY CRAVEN GWIN CONNER STOCKTON |
| LITTLE KIMBERLEY SIGOURNEY GREGORY STRINGHAM CALDWELL |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON THREE SCHENCK - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION SEVEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION EIGHT |
| DESTROYER DIVISION NINE |
| DYER COLHOUN STEVENS MCKEE ROBINSON RINGGOLD |
| MCKEAN HARDING GRIDLEY FAIRFAX TAYLOR BELL |
| MEREDITH BUSH COWELL MADDOX FOOTE KALK |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON SEVEN DALLAS - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION NINETEEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-ONE |
| HOPEWELL THOMAS HARADEN ABBOTT BAGLEY CLEMSON |
| DAHLGREN GOLDSBOROUGH SEMMES SATTERLEE MASON |
| ABEL P. UPSHUR HUNT WELBORN C. WOOD GEORGE E. BADGER BRANCH HERNDON |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON EIGHT HERBERT - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-TWO |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-THREE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-FOUR |
| BRECKINRIDGE BARNEY BLAKELEY BIDDLE DUPONT BERNADOU |
| HALE CROWNINSHIELD TILLMAN ELLIS COLE J. FRED TALBOT |
| BELKNAP McCOOK McCALLA RODGERS OSMOND INGRAM BANCROFT |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON NINE SHARKEY - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-FIVE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-SIX |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWENTY-SEVEN |
| PUTNAM TOUCEY BRECK SHERWOOD CASE LARDNER |
| BILLINGSLEY WORDEN FLUSSER DALE CONVERSE REID |
| CHARLES AUSBURNE OSBORNE COGHLAN PRESTON LAMSON BRUCE |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON THIRTEEN STEWART - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-SEVEN |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-EIGHT |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THIRTY-NINE |
| CHANDLER SOUTHARD HOVEY LONG BROOME ALDEN |
| SMITH THOMPSON BARKER TRACEY BORIE JOHN D. EDWARDS WHIPPLE |
| PARROTT EDSALL MacLEISH SIMPSON BULMER McCORMICK |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON FOURTEEN HOPKINS - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY-ONE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY-TWO |
| HATFIELD BROOKS GILMER FOX KANE HUMPHREYS |
| McFARLAND JAMES K. PAULDING OVERTON STURTEVANT CHILDS KING |
| SANDS WILLIAMSON REUBEN JAMES BAINBRIDGE GOFF BARRY |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON ONE DICKERSON - Leader |
| Note: the following two squadrons are listed with the Scouting Fleet destroyer squadrons, but seem to be treated as something of a separate organization with their own tender (BRIDGEPORT). I have listed them here as if they were indeed part of Destroyer Squadrons, Scouting Fleet. |
| DESTROYER DIVISION ONE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION TWO |
| DESTROYER DIVISION THREE |
| O'BRIEN NICHOLSON WINSLOW McDOUGAL CUSHING ERICSSON |
| DOWNES DUNCAN AYLWIN PARKER BENHAM BALCH |
| CASSIN CUMMINGS TUCKER CONYNGHAM PORTER WAINWRIGHT |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON FIFTEEN LAWRENCE - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY-THREE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY-FOUR |
| DESTROYER DIVISION FORTY-FIVE |
| PAUL JONES POPE PEARY PILLSBURY FORD TRUXTUN |
| LITCHFIELD ZANE WASMUTH TREVER PERRY DECATUR |
| HULBERT NOA WILLIAM B. PRESTON PREBLE SICARD PRUITT |
| Note: Less such destroyer divisions detailed to the Asiatic Fleet (see below) to maintain that fleet with three divisions and a squadron leader. |
| AIR SQUADRONS, SCOUTING FLEET |
| WRIGHT (F) TEAL - tender SANDPIPER - tender aircraft as assigned LEXINGTON - when completed |
| CONTROL FORCE, U.S. FLEET PITTSBURGH - Control Force Flagship |
| CRUISER DIVISIONS, CONTROL FORCE |
| HUNTINGTON (F) PUEBLO FREDERICK ST. LOUIS |
| CRUISER DIVISION THREE |
| CRUISER DIVISION FOUR |
| PITTSBURGH (F) MISSOULA CHARLOTTE HURON - when relieved on Asiatic station |
| SUBMARINE DIVISIONS, ATLANTIC SAVANNAH, FULTON, CAMDEN - Tenders |
| MINE SQUADRON ONE, CONTROL FORCE SHAWMUT - flagship |
| MINE DIVISION THREE |
| MINE DIVISION ONE |
| MINE DIVISION FIVE |
| MURRAY ISRAEL LUCE MAURY LANSDALE MAHAN |
| CHEWINK CURLEW LARK MALLARD QUAIL |
| CORMORANT GREBE SWAN WOODCOCK RED WING OWL |
| R-21 R-23 R-24 R-25 R-26 R-27 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION ONE |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION TWO |
| N-1 N-2 N-3 L-3 L-11 R-9 R-22 S-1 |
| S-10 S-11 S-12 S-13 S-48 S-49 S-50 S-51 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION FOUR |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION FIVE |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION SIX |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION SEVEN |
| K-1 K-2 K-3 K-4 K-5 K-6 K-7 K-8 |
| L-2 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8 L-9 |
| H-2 H-3 H-4 H-5 H-6 H-7 H-8 H-9 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION EIGHT |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION TEN |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION ELEVEN |
| O-1 O-2 O-3 O-4 O-5 O-6 O-7 O-8 O-9 O-10 |
| O-11 O-12 O-13 O-14 O-15 O-16 |
| S-21 S-22 S-23 S-24 S-25 S-26 S-27 S-28 S-29 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION FIFTEEN |
| T-1 T-2 T-3 |
| FLEET BASE FORCE, U.S. FLEET PROCYON - Fleet Base Force Flagship |
| MINE SQUADRON TWO, FLEET BASE FORCE AROOSTOOK - flagship BALTIMORE |
| MINE DIVISION TWO |
| MINE DIVISION SIX |
| MINE DIVISION FOUR |
| STRIBLING INGRAHAM LUDLOW BURNS ANTHONY SPROSTON |
| SEAGULL THRUSH WHIPPOORWILL TANAGER LAPWING PELICAN |
| SANDERLING ORIOLE PENGUIN PIGEON EIDER TURKEY |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON, FLEET BASE FORCE BUFFALO - Tender |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON ZERO JENKINS - Leader |
| DESTROYER DIVISION ZERO ONE |
| DESTROYER DIVISION ZERO TWO |
| DESTROYER DIVISION ZERO THREE |
| AMMEN BEALE BURROWS DRAYTON FANNING HENLEY JARVIS |
| JOUETT MAYRANT McCALL MONAGHAN PATTERSON PAULDING |
| PERKINS ROE STERETT TERRY TRIPPE WALKE WARRINGTON |
| TRAIN, FLEET BASE FORCE |
| VESSELS OF TRAIN |
| ASIATIC FLEET HURON - Asiatic Fleet Flagship |
| Note: On mobilization, Asiatic Fleet passes under command of the Commander-in-Chief U. S. Fleet with the status of a task fleet until such time as other instructions are issued by the Navy Department. |
| SACRAMENTO ASHEVILLE |
| YANGTZE PATROL |
| ISABEL (F) ELCANO VILLALOBOS QUIROS PALOS MONOCACY |
| SOUTH CHINA PATROL |
| PAMPANGA HELENA |
| MINE DETACHMENT MINE DIVISION SEVEN |
| RIZAL (F) HART HERON FINCH AVOCET BITTERN |
| DESTROYER SQUADRON, ASIATIC FLEET |
| Note: Tender, leader, and three divisions as assigned to the Asiatic Fleet from the Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. |
| SUBMARINE DIVISIONS, ASIATIC RAINBOW - Tender and Flagship |
| S-3 S-4 S-6 S-7 S-8 S-9 |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION TWELVE |
| SUBMARINE DIVISION EIGHTEEN |
| S-2 S-14 S-15 S-16 S-17 |
| NAVAL FORCES NOT UNDER COMMANDER IN CHIEF, U.S. FLEET |
| SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON |
| CRUISER DIVISION ONE |
| CRUISER DIVISION TWO |
| CLEVELAND DENVER TACOMA |
| GALVESTON CHATTANOOGA DES MOINES |
| Note: When COLORADO and WEST VIRGINIA are commissioned, and DELAWARE and NORTH DAKOTA are scrapped, the battleship divisions will be reorganized as follows. |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION ONE |
| WYOMING (F) ARKANSAS UTAH |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION TWO |
| NEW YORK (F) TEXAS FLORIDA |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION THREE |
| ARIZONA (F) OKLAHOMA NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION FOUR |
| NEW MEXICO (F) IDAHO TENNESSEE MISSISSIPPI |
| BATTLESHIP DIVISION FIVE |
| WEST VIRGINIA (F) MARYLAND COLORADO CALIFORNIA |