San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-15
NAUTICAL SPORTS.
international Fleets Ready for the
Rendezvous.

great International fleet is drop
ping anchor in Hampton Roads,
and about everything is now in
readiness for the actual rendez-
vous on Monday and for the festi-
val of nautical sports which begins
this afternoon.
The American warships which
will participate in the review are
as follows: Cruiser Philadelphia,
flagship of Rear Admiral Gherardi !;
cruiser Newark, flagship of Rear
Admiral BenhaIn cruiser Chicago,
flagship Of Acting Rear Admiral
John G. Walker, and, in addition,
the cruisers Atlanta, Baltimore,
San Francisco, Charleston, York
town, Bennington and Concord,
dispatch vessel Dolphin, double
turretcd monitor MiantOnOmOh a;
dynamite cruiser NeSuViuS and
torpedo boats Cushing and Stiletto.
The stay in Hampton Roads will
not be fraught with ceremonies.
The roads, it should be remem-
bered, have been selected solely as
a rendezvous. The real work of the
review will be seen in New York
HarbOr. To be sure, there will be
constant firing of guns and inter-
change of calls at Hampton Roads,
but all such dOingS will be in keep
ing simply with ordinary naval
courtesy.
Each foreign warship on arriving
in the roads salutes with 81 guns
the flag of the United States. This
salute is returned by the guns of
Fort Monroe. Then there is visit
paid the new arrival by an officer
detailed from the guard ship, fol-
lowed by an interchange of calls
between the flag officer of the new
arrival and the American flag Off
Ger. The foreign officers are in
formed of the plans laid down for
the review, and are requested to
take the places assigned to them
in the programme. This posi-
ton is governed nightly by the
rank of the visiting officers.
The departure of the combined
fleets from Hampton Roads for
New York HarbOr, will probably
see under way the strongest inter-
national naval force gathered to-
gether in modern years. The run
up to New York from the Virginia
capes should not exceed thirty-four
hours. 1t rs understood to be the
purpose of Admiral Gherardi to
sail from Hampton Roads in the
early morning of April q. BY this
arrangement the reviewing fleet
should reach Sandy Hook by late
evening the next day. The Admit
raj may, however, change this plan
and cause the review fleet to make
a night passage Of it to Sandy Hook,
but this latter plan is not expected
to be followed. Should the fleet
reach Sandy Hook in the evening
the ships will, in all probability, be
anchored in the Horse Shoe for the
night. On April - and 26 Admit
raj Gherardi will direct the posi-
tiOning of all the war vessels.
On April y President Cleveland
will steam down through the en-
tire length of the two lines on
some warship to be selected for
that purpose and personally re-
view the assembled fleets. AS
the president passes down the
lines he will find the yards of all
ships manned, and aboard those
ships unprovided with yards the
rails will be duly manned.
At the same time the President
will be greeted with salute of
twenty-One guns from each war
vessel, and when it is considered
that the combined fleets will con-
tain in all nearly forty ships of
war, the thunder and roar which
will ensue will be little short of
deafening.
The foreign vessels now at the
rendezvous, or expected, are as
as follows:
Italy.-PrOtected cruiser Etna,
Giovanni Bausan and DOgali. The
Etna has displacement of $3.50
tons, length of 2S2 feet, inches,
and beam of ~ feet, inches. She
draws 10 feet of water Her speed
is seventeen knots per hour, on a
5000 horse power development.
The Etna's battery consists of two
twenty-eight-tOn twenty-five CEN
timeter, and six fOur-tOn fifteen
centimeter breech-lOading Arm
strong rifles, and the secondary
battery of five 5.7-centimeterr rapid
fire guns and ten machine guns.
The Giovanni BauSan is a vessel
of 3,OGS tons displacement, with a
length Of 27j feet 7 inches, and a
beam of - feet 7 inches. She has