Note 57 — Chapter XIV

The rank of commodore no longer exists except for its survival on the retired list. There are some twenty-five or thirty rear admirals. The act of 1899, under which Dewey was appointed admiral, provided that the office should cease to exist with his death, but in 1915 the rank of admiral and vice admiral was reëstablished and the former rank is now held by the commanders of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic fleets.