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1909 Great White Fleet voyage arrives....
1909 Great White Fleet voyage arrives....
Item # 680113
April 15, 1909
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, April 15, 1908
* Great White Fleet around the World journey arrives
* United States Navy Battleships - Charles Stillman Sperry
The front page has a banner headline: "GREATEST NAVAL LAND DISPLAY IS WITNESSED BY IMMENSE CROWD" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 10 pages, small library stamp within the masthead, some small binding holes along the spine, generally VERY nice.
wikipedia notes: The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships which completed a journey around the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909 by order of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. Its mission was to make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world.
It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability. Hoping to enforce treaties and protect overseas holdings, United States Congress designated funds to build American naval power. Beginning in the 1880s with just 90 small ships, over one-third of them wooden and therefore obsolete, the navy quickly grew to include new steel fighting vessels. The hulls of these ships were painted a stark white, giving the armada the nickname "Great White Fleet".
Category: The 20th Century
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