The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-11
ANOTHER WORLD
TOUR FOR FLEET
BEING PLANNED
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Sch roeder May Take
Ships on Globe-Encir-
cling Cruise.
WILL SAIL FROM
HAMPTON ROADS
Details of Great Journey Now Be-
ing Worked Out, and It May
Surpass Even That Of Gigan-
tic Armada Which Roose-
Welt Sent
Away.
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Especial to The Times -DtSpatch.l
New York, April lo.--RearAdmirals
Richard Wainwright, aid for opera
tions; Reginald f. Nicholson. chief Of
the Bureau OF Navigation. and William
+. Potter the aid for personnel in the
Navy Department at Washington. are
at work mapping out another great
cruise for the Atlantic lieet. The plans
are almost certain to be approved BY
the President and Secretary OF the
Navy. y voyage that will be the most
important ever made by fleet, with
the exception of the around-theworld
one made two years ago by the Atlantic
fleet under the command of Admirals
Evans and Sperry, is contemplated
AS was the case in the last cruise,
the feet will sail from Hampton Roads.
and it's going will be made the occa
sion of another notable review. such
as marked the departure of the fleet
under Admiral Evans. when the SIX
| teen battlcships were reviewed by
President Roosevelt from the naval
| yacht NIaytlower as they headed for
the Virginia capes to begin the voy-
I age around the world.
When the cruise starts next Noyem-
| ber President Taft and Secretary OF
the Navy Meyer will again review. it
I is expected. the uepdI iIilt5 iISel l'Siii
| the bridge of the Mayfiower. While
the itinerary of the next cruise has
not been made public. it Is known that
the direction this time Will be east.
instead OF south, the ships heading Tor
a port in Europe, probably Gibraltar
Fleet VIII Divide.
4 On its arrival at Gibraltar the fleet
will divide into four divisions, ono OF
the other of the divisions visiting every
Important port in the Mediterranean.
The itinerary after the round of vis-
its to the Mediterranean ports is not
iyet known. even to the naval officers.
Many naval officers say. however they
would not be surprised Ii the voyage
was-contnued through the Suez Canai
and to the Philippines. II the ships
get that far these officers say they
would not be surprised if the route
was extended to San Francisco and then
home by the way OF the Straits OF Ma
gellan, which would mean another
around tt,e-world voyage. with the It
inerary reversed, but with Hampton
Roads the beginning and the end as
was the case in the last cruise.
The fleet that will go in Novembe,
will be vastly greater aggregation
| of lighters than was the one thai
started under Admiral Evans and end
sVN It's Wy dSc HNSpcli
In numbers it Will be the same. but In
strength. both offensive and defensive.
it will be almost dou5le that of the
former fleet This time four great
battleshiss of the Dreadnought type
will be included in the sixteen
These vessels will be the Delaware.
North Dakota, South Carolina and the
Michigan. three Of which are already
in commission and the fourth of which.
| the North Dakota has Just been order
ed commissioned. The Dreadnoughts
will constitute a division by them
selves with the Delaware or North
Dakota the flagship. The battleshp
; Connec ticut, which was the flagship OF
: the former cruise. will again fly the
pennant of the commander-in-c chief
; Schroeder in Command.
!. The officer who Will exercise SUI
preme command Will be Rear admiral
, Seaton Schroeder the present com-
imander in chief, who assumed COM
mand when Admiral Sperry hauled
down his flag when the tleet arrived
home last year,
In addition to the Dreadnoughts
there Will be three other vessels in
the fleet that We're not part of it OH
the former cruise. These ships are
the New Hampshire, Mississippi and
, Idaho The battleships that went
, laround the world with Admirals Evans
and Sperry, but which viii not he in
the fleet next November, arc the Ken
lucky Nearsarge Ohio Wisconsin, II
linos. Missouri and Alabama These
. Vessels are already or soon VIII be
> tho list.