Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-08-14
ROOSEVELT TO REVIEW
GREATEST NAVY AFL0AT
With Admiral Evans In Command
as Vessels viii Sail by
Oyster Ray.
twelve BATTLESHIfS IN LINE
There Will Be t,178 Guns, Big Officers
and S,iiora 49, no..I A..
twelve BATTLEsH|fs IN LINE
There viii Be ,,17s Guns, s12 officers
and 1895 Sailors on Board the
Grandest and Strongest Armada
That Uncle Sam Has Ever AS.
sembIed-submarnes to Steam BY.
tBy Associated Press.)

Orders for the formation of the At
lantic fleet to be viewed by Pres;
dent Roosevelt ut oyster Bay, Sen
tcmber 3, were issued today at the
navy department
The President will be aboard the
Mayfower and the fleet which he will
review will be the strongest, if not
the largest in numbers ever asscmb-
led under the United States flag.
1t will consist OF As vessels carry
ing LIS. guns. commanded by Sl2
officers with il5,235 men.
Twenty 13-inch Guns in Fleet.
or the guns twenty are l3 inch, IS
are 12-inch, 73 are S-inch, 212 are 4.
inch, 15S are G-inch, &C are 5-inch, 81
are inch and 779 under finch
The auxiliary and supply ships will
carry in addition to what is aboard
the warships. 7,4OO tons of coal, $500
tons of provisions, and $4,000 gallons
OF water.
The order Of the fleet as it passes
In review together with the officers
i'll command OF the ships as follows:
Evans in Command.
Rear Admiral Rohlcy d. Evans ms
commander in chief.
First squadron, the commander in
chief, first division.
Maine, agship)-Captain Nathan
t. Niles; Missouri Captain Edwin c.
Pcndleton; kentucky. Captain Ed
ward B. Barry; Kearsargc, Captain
Herbert Winslow.
Second Division.
Second division, the senior captain
The Louisiana, Captain Albert r.
Couden; Rhode Island, Captain
Charles G. Bowman; New Jersey,
Capatin William w. Kimball: Vir.
Sina, Captain Seaton Schroeder.
Second squadron, Rear Admiral
Charles IL. Davis Third division.
Alabama .(1agshlp}- Captain Samuel
p. Comfy: Illinois. Captain G. Block
niger; Indiana, Captain Edward ID.
Taussig; Iowa, Captain Benjamin F.
Tilley.
Fourth division. Rear Admiral vii.
lard H. Brownson. West Virginia,
Gagship)-Captain Conway Fl. Ar.
mold; Pennsylvania. Captain Thomas
Q. Mclean; Colorado, Captain Sidney
S. Staunton Maryland, Captain Royal
Ingersoll.
Monitors in Line.
Third squadron. fifth division, the
senior captain. Puritan, Captai:,
Charles w. Bartlett; Nevada, Com.
mander Alfred Reynolds; Florida,
Commander Washington /. Chamber;
Arkansas, Commander Rogers II.
Gait.
Sixth division, the senior command.
er. Minneapolis, Commander Bradley
A. Fiske; Tacoma, Commander Jas.
L. Smith; Cleveland, Commander
John T. Newton; Denver, Command.
or John c. Cotwell.
Wasps of Navy Included.
Torpedo flotillas. Second notila,
Lieut.. Commander, Edwin A. Andcr-
son; WhipDle, Lieut. Edward Woods
Worden, Lieut.. Victor S. Houston
Truxton, Lieut. John V. Babcock:
Hopkins, Lieut.. Merlyn G. Cook !;
Lawrence, Lieut.. Thomas c. Hart;
lMacDonough, Lieut.. Kenneth NJ. Ben
nett.
Third notilla. the senior lieutenant,
Wilkes. Lieut.. Willis Mcdowell; Tin
gey, Ensign Alfred II. Brasbin; Rods.
ers, Lieut.. Alfred w. Johnson; Stock
ton, Lieut.. James H. Tombs; Blake.
ly, Lieut.. Charles Il. Courtney; De
Long, Lieut. William Miller.
:, Divers to Be Shown Off,
Submarines, the senior Lieutenant
Porpoise, Lieut.. Charles p. Nelson
Shark, Lieut.. Lloyd s. Shapley; Nina