. Book of the Royal blue . UllK 1 i,\( Pictorial News Co., New LEADING THE ATLANTIC FLEET OUT OF THE VIRGINIA CAPES,DECEMBER 16, 1907 The Greatest Naval Cruise of History The Home-Coming of the Fleet. ITH the bands on boardplaying Home, SweetHome the great Ameri-can battleship fleet leftGibraltar on February 6thfor Hampton Roads, onthe last lap of its famousaround-the-world cruise of 45,000 miles,due to arrive Hampton Roads on Washing-tons Birthday, February 22d, after havingperformed the greatest naval maneuver inthe history of the world. When the great armada left HamptonRoads
. Book of the Royal blue . UllK 1 i,\( Pictorial News Co., New LEADING THE ATLANTIC FLEET OUT OF THE VIRGINIA CAPES,DECEMBER 16, 1907 The Greatest Naval Cruise of History The Home-Coming of the Fleet. ITH the bands on boardplaying Home, SweetHome the great Ameri-can battleship fleet leftGibraltar on February 6thfor Hampton Roads, onthe last lap of its famousaround-the-world cruise of 45,000 miles,due to arrive Hampton Roads on Washing-tons Birthday, February 22d, after havingperformed the greatest naval maneuver inthe history of the world. When the great armada left HamptonRoads fourteen months ago on December16, 1907, it sailed with an open itineraryaround Cape Horn to San Francisco, witha number of stops in South America. Itwas the first attempt of a great fleet toRound the Horn. Many were the conjectures offered by thepress of all nations as to the possibility of asuccessful voyage of the entire fleet. TheJingoists smelled war, inasmuch as thefleet was to continue on its cruise from SanFrancisco under sealed orders; but theywere all doomed to disappointment, for atevery foreign port where the fleet put in thefriendly receptions were the greatest thatnations could give. The cruis
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