The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-12-22
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bridge and Grand Duke Michael of
Russia. In November 1902, the Euro
pean feet joined the South Atlantic
feet, to participate in the war game
off Porto Rico, in which the North
Atlantic squadron opposed them. On
December 4, 1902, the combined fleet
under Admiral Sumner left the Gulf
OF Paria and five days later ran the
gauntlet of the blockading squadron
and captured the town Of Mayaguez
ON the west coast of Porto Rico.
While on temporary duty on the
European station, during the trouble
in China, the Albany was ordered to
Join the Asiatic fleet and became the
station ship at Iloilo.
In June, 1901, the Albany and Nash
VILE were again ordered to Genoa,
forming, with the Chicago, the Euro
pean squadron, the first American
feet in European waters after the
Spanish war. On the trip from CO.
Iombo to Seychelles, the equator was
the crew for a day, and the sailors
were baptized as true sons OF Nep-
tune. On the trip from Seychelles to
Alden the Albany lost three men over
board, two of them being washed on
the poop at night while the ship was
rolling heavily, and one man being
lost from the gangway the next morn
ing.
After calling at Genoa the Albany
spent the winter at Villefranche,
!. France, which is known as the sail
at The Piraeus, Greece, where the en-
tire fleet was welcomed. On January
5, 1903, the ship was ordered to the
United States for the first time in
three years. Two weeks were spent
In Boston and the same length of time
in New York, when the Albany was
again ordered to the European station.
going from there with the Cincinnati
and Raleigh in August to join the
.Asiatic fleet.
The Albany Is built on the same lines
as the New Orleans. and the only diff
ference is in the armament. She has
five 6-inch guns, one 5-inch gun and
four, 4.7-inch guns in her main bat
terry, and in her secondary battery ten
s-pounders, eight 1-pounders and two
Colt automatic guns. Her complement
is 307 men, % marines and 20 officers.
The men of the Albany have organ
lied baseball, football and rowing
teams, and have besides a very clever
theatrical troupe. The baseball club
was only organized on the Asiatic sta
tion and the men have had no oppor-
tunity to try conclusions with other
teams. The Albany does claim, how
ever, to have the fastest boat crew i'll
the cruiser fleet.
AT the Fourth of July sports this
year in Colombo, the crew from the
Albany badly defeated that of her sis
ter ship, and the Albany's men took
away about $1,000 of the New Orleans
ed at Nagasaki just before the Asiatic
fleet left for Yokohama and the AL
bany crew is now anxious to get a
chance at the crews of the other
cruisers.
y THE ALBANY's ITINERARY.
The following is the Albany's timer
ary from the day she was launched un-
til her arrival in Honolulu:
Southampton, England, Gibraltar,
Spain: Malta; Syracuse, Sicily; Ma
pies, Italy; Piraeus, Greece; Port Said;
Port Tewfik, Egypt; Alden; Colombo;
Singapore; Cavite, Olongapo, Philip
pines Islands; Hongkong, China; Ca
vite, Iloilo, p. l.; Singapore, Colombo;
Seychelle Islands: Alden: Port Said;
Genoa, Italy; Villefranche, France;
Genoa; Piraeus; Palermo; Algiers;
Genoa Villefranche. France; Naples,
Itafy: Castlemarre, Italy; Gibraltar;
Lisbon, Portugal; Cherbourg, France;
Southampton, England; Christiana,
Norway; Stockholm, Sweden: Cron-
stadt, Russia; Copenhagen, Denmark;
Plymouth, England; Gibraltar; VILE
franche; Messina, Sicily; Genoa; Willie
franche; A1giers; Gibraltar; Cape de
Verde Islands; Port of Spain; Maya
guez, Culebra, P. r.; San Juan; La
Guayra, Venezuela; Culebra: Boston;
New York; Azores; Algiers; Palermo;
Naples; Leghorn; Villefranche; Mar
seiiles; Villefranche; Port Said; Alden;
Colombo; Singapore; Hongkong; Che
foo, China (to join Asiatic fleeO; Kiau-
chow; Nagasaki; Yokohama; Chemul-
Do; Yokohama; Honolulu.