Asiatic Squadron - Commanders

Commanders

Successive Commanders-in-Chief of the Asiatic Squadron were as follows:

• Rear Admiral Henry H. Bell, ( - 11 January 1868)
• Commodore John R. Goldsborough, (11 January 1868 - 18 April 1868)
• Rear Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, (18 April 1868 – 19 August 1870)
• Rear Admiral John Rodgers, (19 August 1870 – 12 May1872)
• Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, (1 September 1872 – 12 December 1873)
• Rear Admiral Enoch Greenleafe Parrott, (12 December 1873 - 12 January 1874)
• Commodore Edmund Colhoun, (12 January 1874 - 29 May 1874)
• Rear Admiral Alexander Mosely Pennock, (29 May 1874 - 24 June 1875)
• Commander Robert F. R. Lewis, (24 June 1875 - 16 August 1875)
• Rear Admiral William Reynolds, (16 August 1875 - 12 August 1877)
• Captain Jonathan Young, (12 August 1877 - 4 October 1877)
• Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson, (12 August 1877 - 11 September 1880)
• Rear Admiral John M. B. Clitz, (11 September 1880 - 21 April 1883)
• Rear Admiral Peirce Crosby, (21 April 1883 - 30 October 1883)
• Captain Joseph S. Skerrett, (30 October 1883 - 19 December 1883)
• Commodore/Rear Admiral John L. Davis (19 December 1883 - 22 November 1886)
• Rear Admiral Ralph Chandler, (22 November 1886 - 11 February 1889)
• Rear Admiral George E. Belknap, (4 April 1889 – 20 February 1892)
• Rear Admiral David B. Harmony, (20 February 1892 - 7 June 1893)
• Rear Admiral John Irwin, (11 June 1893 – 11 December 1893)
• Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett, (11 December 1893 – 1 September 1894)
• Commodore/Rear Admiral Charles C. Carpenter, (1 September 1894 – 21 December 1895)
• Commodore Frederick V. McNair, Sr. (21 December 1895 - 3 January 1898)
• Commodore/Rear Admiral George Dewey, (3 January 1898 - 5 June 1899)
• Rear Admiral John C. Watson, (5 June 1899 - 19 April 1900)
• Rear Admiral George C. Remey (19 April 1900 - 1 March 1902)
• Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers (1 March 1902 - 29 October 1902)