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    The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships that completed a journey around the globe from 16 December...
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  • military forces The Great White Fleet, the dispatch of US naval forces to the orient between 1907 and 1909 White Fleet, the fleet of Portuguese fishing...
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    where she was overhauled extensively. In July 1908, she joined the Great White Fleet for the second leg of its cruise around the world, which lasted until...
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    entered service with the Atlantic Fleet in March 1907. Shortly after she entered service, Vermont joined the Great White Fleet for its circumnavigation of the...
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  • Great White is an American rock band. Look up great white in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Great White or Great White may also refer to: Great...
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    from 1904 to 1907 she cruised the Atlantic. In 1907, she joined the Great White Fleet on its world tour, returning to the United States in 1909. She was...
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    colony. She later sailed with the Great White Fleet on a circumnavigation of the Earth to showcase the US Navy's growing fleet of blue-water-capable ships....
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    killed or wounded 21 men. At the end of the year, she joined the Great White Fleet on its circumnavigation of the globe, which ended in early 1909. Peacetime...
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    Kearsarge served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization...
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    (33 km/h; 21 mph). Shortly after she entered service, Kansas joined the Great White Fleet for its circumnavigation of the globe in 1908–1909. She made trips...
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    Civil War to the Spanish–American War. In 1907–1908, he commanded the Great White Fleet on its worldwide cruise from the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits...
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    December 1907 to February 1909, she circumnavigated the globe with the Great White Fleet. From November 1912, the ship was used as a training ship. She was...
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    her career. In 1908–1909, she took part in the world cruise of the Great White Fleet. A pair of trips to European waters took place in 1910 and 1911. From...
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    Fleet, much of it spent conducting peacetime training exercises to maintain fleet readiness. In 1907–1909, she took part in the cruise of the Great White...
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    with the other battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. Rhode Island took part in the cruise of the Great White Fleet in 1907–1909, and thereafter largely remained...
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    Exposition in April – May 1907. At the end of the year, she joined the Great White Fleet for its circumnavigation of the globe, which lasted into 1909. The...
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    Fleet, later renamed the Atlantic Fleet. In late 1907, she and the rest of the Atlantic Fleet circumnavigated the globe as the so-called Great White Fleet...
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    networks through its International Railways of Central America and its Great White Fleet of steamships. In addition, UFCO branched out in 1913 by creating...
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    as a stores ship. She served in the Philippine–American War; the Great White Fleet; and the First World War. In January 1909 she took part in the relief...
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    was completed without incident. The Great Green Fleet, the popular nickname, is an homage to the Great White Fleet of the early 20th century. Since the...
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    The Great White Fleet (also known as the American Fleet) in Albany, Western Australia was the visit of the American naval fleet in late 1908 on its tour...
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    graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. He served in the Great White Fleet and, during World War I, commanded the destroyer USS Shaw. He took...
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    throughout multiple interventions in Latin America. This included the Great White Fleet, 16 battleships which peacefully circumnavigated the globe as an illustration...
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  • Reserve Fleets Great White Fleet – nickname for the United States Atlantic Fleet sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 Great Green...
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  • of her class of battleships. She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet, and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923. USS Maine (BB-69)...
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    battleship USS Vermont and then Fourth Division, Atlantic Fleet during the voyage of Great White Fleet. William P. Potter was born on May 10, 1850, in Whitehall...
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    joined the cruise of the Great White Fleet, though her heavy coal consumption prevented her from continuing with the fleet past San Francisco. After...
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    of a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph). Nebraska joined the Great White Fleet after it reached the west coast of the United States in 1908 and continued...
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    World War I. In 1907–1909, after the round-the-world cruise of the Great White Fleet, he commanded the tender USS Yankton. He then held various assignments...
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    the Great White Fleet in 1907–1909—New Hampshire had not entered service. From 1909 onward, they served as the workhorses of the US Atlantic Fleet, conducting...
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