The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27
Long Days of the Strenuous Life
Scheduled for Our Brave
Jackies.
SOME OF THE VESSELS
ARE VIRTUALLY UNTRIED
Most of the Sea Monsters Have
Made Good in Voyage
Around World.

w AbSIll4NNlo-N, OuEe w iNi WV
months of hard work before it. the
Atlantic battleship fleet is assembling
IN Hampton Roads, Va, for the sum
mer maneuvers, which will be extensive
and exhaustive The fleet may be di-
vided into two squadrons to fight against
each other, and a dozen torpedo boats
VIII make attacks on the big battle
ships, whose officers and men will be re
quircd to exert extreme vigilance also
to guard against the stealthy little sub
marine torpedo boats, four of which,
with parent ships, are attached to the
Seet
Under Rear Admiral Seaton schroe
der. commander IN chief of the At
lantic fleet, will be nearly half hun
dred ships OF war, ranging in size from
the big l6,000-toD flagship Connecticut
to the little seventeen-ton submarine
Tarantua. Fleet drills and exercises in
volving tactical problems and battle ev-
olutions will be held in New England
waters during the latter part of July
and the early part OF August Then
! the feet will proceed TO the southern
drill grounds, south of the Virginia
capes, for record and battle target
practice. This will occupy about two
weeks, beginning August 10. AT its
close the vessels Will return TO Hamp-
ton Roads, and viii 60 thence TO their
home yards for any repairs necessary
before the winter maneuvers in West
Indian waters.
Only twelve OF the battleships of
the present fleet made the trip around
the world; the other four in command
are new vessels. The older ships have
been thoroughly repaired and the newly
adopted ire control mast, which has
been called the ''inverted waste bas-
ket,' has been installed. This sum.
mer's maneuvers Will afford the first
opportunity for a crucial test OF these
masts.
Four New Vessels.
Most of the. ships will proceed from
Hampton Roads next Tuesday for va
rioqs New England ports, where they
! VAL spend independence day
With the reassembling of the battle
ships at Rockport, Mass. July 7. will
begin the work of the summer. To.
gether they will proceed to Province
town, which will be headquarters until
August D. From Provincetown the feet
VIII proceed to sea each week, return
ING, Saturday nighrs. On these trips
VIII Occur the feet drills and evolutjons
and by courtesy nf the navy depart
menr the cit.zrn sailors Of the naval
m3lltlas Of several eastern states will
! be taken out for q week for instruc.
ton on the b'g ships
Part for Torpedo Boats.
At ProvircctowL the Atlantic torpedo
tleet Will Join the battleships. consist
ing Of torpedo rloji:'a of twelve boats
with the cruiser Dixie as parent ship,
and a submarine 1eet OF four new
boats with the gunbaat Castine as pa
rent shlo. Az the conclusion of the
exercises ;he bag fleet will proceed to
Hampton Roads to coal, preparatory to
target practice
| For the tilst time in the history of
the navy the firing vii be done on the
open sen arG IN ever condition of
weather, SO, as TO ntt2Ir practice at as
nearly battle coudircns as possible.
Night firing urdcf the same conditions
will he carried or. For the target
practice the two Old tcrr,ro boats Mich.
olson and O Brieu have been dismantled
and prepared as targets Their hulls
have becIi filed with c"rk. apo this, it
is said Will keep them atDat after they
have seen riGdled with proioctiles.
| They viii be towed at different speeds
ard will be fred at ly re battlesbips
ruuuing at varlou5 speeds. Results of
the practice will he kept secret.
While at Rockport, Mass, July Z. or
later MT ProvincetoWn, President Taft
may fin 1t convenient 10 review Ad-
miral Schroeder s fleet from either his
small yach1 Sylph and from his yacht
May1owrr.