Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-06
FLEET STARTS HONE,
CAPTAIN D|SGRACED
Ships on Last Run of Most
Notable Sea Voyage Ever
Undertaken
ouALrRouGH LOSES COMMAND
Captain of Georgia Found Guilty by
Court Martial and Comes Homo as
Passenser-Great Reception Planned
for FIeet-New Battleship Delaware,
Pride of Navy, is Launched.

Gibraltar, Feb. 6.-The battleship
fleet left here at IL o'clock this MORN
ing, homeward bound for Hampton
roads. where they are due to arrive
Feb. %.
The American battleshp fleet, COM
posed of sixteen warships, is now on its
last run of its famous cruise around
the world. 1t left Hampton Roads Dec.
is, 1907, and when it again anchors in
that port Feb. % it will have been
gone one year and sixty eight days.
No accident has marked the progress
of the greatest armed fleet that ever
made such a long voyage, and the
cruise has been in every respect an
unqualified success.
Foreign Powers Take Notice.
The trip has been watched with the
greatest interest by all the foreign
powers, and wherever the vessels
could, touched-South America, Aus
tralia, japan, China, Ceylon, Egypt.
and the ports of the Mediterranean
hearty official and private welcome.
The fleet left Hampton Roads under
Admiral Robley D. Evans, who con-
Quoted it as far as San Francisco. Rear
Admiral Charles M. Thomas then took
command, but he was succeeded May
Is by Rear Admiral ,Sperry, who
brought the vessels home
Squadron to Escort Ships.
Rear Admiral Arnold's third squad
ron of the Atlantic fleet, consisting of
the battleships Maine, Mississippi, New
Hampshire and Idaho, the scout cruis-
ers Chester, Birmingham and Salem.
will meet Sperry's fleet in the Atlantic
about 1000 miles from the coast and
then, with Arnold's ships as an escort,
the world touring vessels will proceed
towards Hampton Roads, where they
will be met by President Roosevelt on
Washington's birthday.
Fleet Wins Admiration.
Weather conditions at the time of the
fleets departure were glorious. The sky
was without a cloud. There was just
enough breeze to curl the crests of the
SuL-AOOuCO waves. ANOlAihEo SOolo iLoV y
surpassed the beauty of the marine
picture as the American Armada
weighed from the shadows of the tow
ering rock Of Gibraltar and moved out
into the straits.
The difficult operation of getting the
sixteen huge battleships out of the
narrow war basin of the port and un-
der way was accomplished with skill
and a perfection of maneuvering and
detail which won admiration from all
the foreign naval officers, who wit
messed the proceedings critically from
the land and sea.
Foreigners Take Hand.
Admiral Sperry directed the whole
operation from the after bridge Of the
Connecticut Altho it Is customary to
fire parting salutes. the Devonshire
flagship of Rear Admiral Sir James
Goodrich, r. N, admiral superintend-
ent at Gibraltar, which had taken up a
position at the entrance of the harbor,
hoisted and saluted the American flag
as the Connecticut passed out. The
band on the quarter deck of the Con-
necticut played an English anthem,
while the musicians on the foreign
warships played the Star Spangled
Banner" AS the respective ensigns
were dipped Admiral Goodrich and Ad-
miral Litvinoff, of the Russian navy,
signaned "Good bye. Pleasant VOYAGE .
Sperry replied laconically, Thanks"