. Book of the Royal blue . per cent, of 75. 782 in using all guns. The crew of the after turret on the Ala-bama has made 11 straight hits with the1 .^-inch guns. The \oyage will cost Uncle Sam will take 25.^,000 tons of coal to get onlythe battleships and torpedo-boat destroyersaround to the Golden Gate. The cruisewill take four months time and the coal billwill be Si, 000,000. To this must be addedthe bill for four months maneuvering of afleet of 51 ships on the Pacific, which willmean S.^,000,000 more. Then it will re-quire $2,000,000 additional fuel and fourmonths time to get th
. Book of the Royal blue . per cent, of 75. 782 in using all guns. The crew of the after turret on the Ala-bama has made 11 straight hits with the1 .^-inch guns. The \oyage will cost Uncle Sam will take 25.^,000 tons of coal to get onlythe battleships and torpedo-boat destroyersaround to the Golden Gate. The cruisewill take four months time and the coal billwill be Si, 000,000. To this must be addedthe bill for four months maneuvering of afleet of 51 ships on the Pacific, which willmean S.^,000,000 more. Then it will re-quire $2,000,000 additional fuel and fourmonths time to get the fleet back into theAtlantic, making a total of S7,000,0(JO forfuel for the year to be devoted to the cruiseand sea tactics. The navy department hascontracted to ha\e mountains of coal at thesestopping places. TONS Trinidad, West Indies 7,000 Rio Janeiro, Brazil 0,000 Iunta .Arenas, near (ape Horn. . .40,000 Callao, Peru . Magdalena Bay. Mexico 00,000 San Francisco, Cal 80,000 THE GREATEST XJrJE CRl/SE OF BATTLESHIP -OHIO. The battleships assembled at HamptonRoads December 9, and started on theirvoyage December 16. They arrived atTrinidad, December 24, the day beforeChristmas, and stayed there five days. Theyreached Rio Janeiro January 11, and willmake a stop of 10 days there to give themen shore leave and recoal the ships. Punta Arenas, at the entrance to theMagellan Straits, is scheduled for January■U. Coaling, etc., there will take up untilFebruary 5. The sail through the straits andup the West Coast of South America toCallao, Peru, is expected to take until Feb-ruary 18, and there will be another stop ofK) days at that port. Leaving there Febru-ary l>i, the ships will arrive at MagdalenaBay March 14, where they will have theirtarget practice. The day of departure Bay and of arrival at San Fran-cisco are dependent on the time it will taketo complete the target practice, but it is ex-pected the fleet will have concluded this work by April
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