Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-12
WILL START JOURNEY
FROM HAMPTON ROADS
Dreadnaushts Delaware, North Da-
kota, Michigan and South Carolina
to Form One Division OF Great
Armads-May Circle Globe
Again.

Having nnlSneu the preliminary
work OF the annual winter target prac-
tice, Rear. Admiral Schroeder's Attain.
tic battleship feet steamed into
Hampton Roads yesterday afternoon
/ from the Southern drills grounds. thir-
ty-six miles southeast of the Virginia
Capes, and dropped anchor in the
roadstead. The ships will remain In
the roadsteed until Friday. when they
will return TO the drill grounds 10 be-
gin the long range firing and fleet
evolutions. Ii Is understood that the
men will get but little snore leave at
this time.
: According TO advices received here
yesterday from New York, Rear Ad-
miral Richard Wainwright, eide for
operations; Rear Admiral Reginald
Nicholson. chief OF the bureau of navi-
CATION. and Rear Admiral William p.
Potter, the aide fer personnel in the
navy department. are at work map
ping out another great cruise for the
Atlantic fleet. A voyage that Will be
the most important ever made by
fleet. with the exception OF the globe
eircling cruise made two years ago
by the Atlantic battleships, is con-
templated.
Start From Hampton Roads.
AS was lie case In the last cruise,
the feet will sail rom Hampton
Roads, ard It's departure probably
will be made the occasion Of anoth-
er notabls review, such as marked the
departure of the fleet under Rear Ad-
mil FL Evans, when the sixteen battle
ships were reviewed by President
Roosevelt as they headed for the
Virginia Caps to begin tn voyage
around the world.
When Rear Admiral Schroeder's
fleet starts next November, President
Taft AMI secretary of the Navy
Meyer will review the ships. While
the itinerary Of the next cruise has
not been made public. IL Is said that
the direction of the fleet this time
will be east instead OF south, the
ships heading for a port in Europe,
probably Gibraltar.
Fleet Will Divide.
On entering the Gediter, mean, the
fleet will divide. each o. [ lour di-
visions making separate cruises In
the big sea to the South Europe.
visiting ali of the important ports OIL
the Mediterranean. The route after
these visits are made Is no. known
even to the officers plan the voy
age, but some of the ma officer
say that they would not be surprised
il the feet was ordered to the Philip
pines and thence TO San Francisco.
The return trip to Hampton Roads
would then be made by way of the
Strait OF Magellan.
More Powerful Now.
The fleet that will steam out of the
Roads in November will be a vastly
greater aggregation of fighters than
that which Fighting Bob Evans
led out of the Virginia Capes on De
,emher is, 1907 In numbers II will
be the same. but in strength, both Of
fensive and defensive, il will be al
most double that Of the former fleet.
This time four great battleships OF
the -Dread1aught" type will he includ-
ed in the sixteen.
These vessels viii be the 20,000-tor
battleships Delaware and North Da-
kota and the semtDreadnaughts South
Carolina and Michigan. mounting q
total OF thirty-six 12-inch rifles. The
Dreadnaughts will constitute a divis-
ion by themselves. with either the
Delaware or North Dakota the flag
ship. not only of the division. but also
of the entire feet
Other New Vessels.
Besides the Dresdnasghts there
will be three other battleships which
did not make the globe-circling cruise
with Rear Admiral Evans fleet. They
are the New Hampshire. Mississippi
and Idaho. The other nine vessels
of the fee; tina; will leave IN No
vomber viii De the Connecticut.
Louisiana, Minnesota. Vermont and
Kansas. the Virginia. Georgia, Rhode
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