Mediterranean Squadron
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The Mediterranean Squadron, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was part of the United States Navy in the 1800s.
As early as 1801, prior to the First Barbary War, ships serving in the Mediterranean Sea were organized into a squadron commanded by a captain who carried the title of Commodore. President, Essex, Philadelphia, and Enterprise anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar on 1 July 1801 and comprised the first squadron.
In 1843, the squadron comprised four ships, Columbia, Cumberland, Fairfield and Plymouth.
The Mediterranean Squadron was succeeded by the European Squadron following the American Civil War in 1865.
[edit] Commanders
- Richard Dale 1801
- Edward Preble 1803-1804
- Samuel Barron 1804
- John Rodgers 1805
- Stephen Decatur 1815
- Isaac Chauncey - 1 February 1818
- Charles Stewart 1 February 1818 - 1820
- Jacob Jones 1821
- Thomas Macdonough 1824-1825
- William M. Crane 1827
- Daniel Patterson 1832-1836
- Jesse D. Elliott 1836-1838
- Isaac Hull 1838-1841
- Joseph Smith 1843
- William Bolton 1848
- Charles W. Morgan 1850
- Samuel Livingston Breese 1856-1859
- Uriah Phillips Levy 1860
[edit] Further reading
- London, Joshua E.Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a NationNew Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
