Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-25
THE FLEETS VANGUARD.
Fourteen Battleships OF The Atlantic
Fleet Drop Anchor Off New
York.
FROM DREADNOUGHT TO TUG.
There Will Be lO2 Crafts For Secre
tary Meyer OF The Navy To
Review.

Fourteen battleships, the finest in
Uncle Sans navy, set up housekeep.
ing in the North River yesterday aft
ernoon, says the New York Sun. Bv
next Saturday night these will be
joined by eleven more battleships. a
quantity of cruisers, destroyers, tor
pedo boats, submarines and auxiliaries.
l02 vessls in all, with a total tonnage
of 577, ,2S5.
When Secretary of the Navy Meyer
reviews the fleet next Tuesday he will
have the opportunity of seeing
something impressive even for a
Secretary of the Navy-the biggest
and most powerful array of war
vessels ever gathered together by
the United States The vanguard
of the great fleet arrived into the
New York harbor early yesterday
afternoon without ostentation.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, who
is in command of the Atlantic fleet.
held the fourteen battleships at an
chor ten miles southeast of the Am
brose Channel lightship on Monday
night. His flagship, the Connecti-
cut, which Capt. w. R. Rush COM
mands, did not show starting signals
until noon yesterday. Admiral Oster-
haus didn't want to bring his big
boats into the Hudson in the rush
hours of the morning.
When the battleships got under way
the Connecticut paced them leisurely
up the bay, making perhaps six miles
an hour. At about LIS p. m. the
flagship loomed past Governors Is
land and DETECTED her course slightly
to the northwest to make the round
turn into the North River. Right
behind the Connecticut was the Mich
igan. Capt. E. E. Capehart, and then
at the prescribed interval of 400 yards
the rest of the fleet, as follows:
North Dakota, Capt. Cleaves; Louis
lana, Capt. A, Winterhalter; Yer
mont, Capt. Walter Mclean; South
Carolina, Capt. A. F. Fechteler, Min
nesota. Capt. G. r. Clark; Missouri,
Capt. F. L. Chaplin, Ohio, Capt. w.
w. Buchanan; Mississippi, Capt. w.
F. Fullam; Virginia, Capt. j. H.
Glennon; Georgia, Capt. w. L. Rodg-
ers; Nebraska, Capt. j. p. Parker.
and New Jersey, Capt. J. E. Craven.
The entire feet which will be an
chored in the Hudson consists of
twenty-four battleships two armored
cruisers, two protected cruisers,
twenty-five destroyers, sixteen tor
pedo boats, eight submarines, three
torpedo fleet tenders, four gunboats,
nine miscellaneous vessels, such as
hospital supply and ammunition
ships eight colliers, an oil tanker
and three tugs. Names of the YES
sells are:
Battleships-Connecticut, Florida,
Utah, Delaware, North Dakota, Mich
igan, Louisiana, South Carolina, Kan
sas, Vermont, New Hampshire, Mime
sofa Mississippi, Idaho, Missouri,
Ohio, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey,
Virginia, Maine, Iowa, Indiana and
Massachusetts.
Armored Cruisers-Washington and
North Carolina.
Protected Cruisers Salem and Des
Moines.
Destroyers-Reid, Flusser, Lam
son, Preston, Smith, Drayton, Paulding,
Mccall, Roe, Perry, Perkins, May
rant, Sterett, Walker, Warrington,
Patterson, Monaghan, Ammen, Bur-
rows, Trippe, Macdonough and Wor-
den.
Torpedo Porter, Blakely,
Dupont, Barney, Biddle, Craven,
Dahlgren, Delong, Shubrick, Stockton,
Tingley, Wilkes, Bagley, Bailey, Sty-
inham and Morris.
misunderstanding, Bonita, Mar
whal, Salmon, Snapper, Stingray,
Tarpon and Octopus.
Torpedo Boat Tenders Dixie, Cas-
tine and Severn.
Gunboats-Nashville, Dolphin, Pc
trel and Marietta.
Observation-Disclosures, (transport),
San Francisco, (mine layer, Leba-
non, (ammunition ship Panther, ire
pair ship, Mayfower, Converted
yacht, Yankton (tender), Celtic.
and Culgoa, Supply ships) and Solace,
hospital ship.)
Colliers-Neptune, Cyclops, Hector,
Mars, Vulcan, Ajax, Brutus and Ster-
ling.
Oil Tanker-Arethusa
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