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1907 Great White Fleet voyage ends...
1907 Great White Fleet voyage ends...
Item # 680202
December 24, 1907
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Dec. 24, 1907
* Great White Fleet around the World journey
* United States Navy Battleships - Robley D. Evans
The front page has a nice banner headline: "BATTLESHIP FLEET AT PORT OF SPAIN" 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 8 pages, small library stamp within the masthead, a few 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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