The U.S. Navy to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Great White Fleet

Navy News Service ^ | 12/14/2007 3:50:00 PM

[drpix]

Will Ron Paul and Cindy Sheehan release a joint statement on the unconstitutional imperialism of Teddy Roosevelt?

[P.O.E.]

"the message was that the United States had arrived as a significant world power, outward-looking, and filled with goodwill towards every nation"

and BTW - don't mess with us.

[NavyCanDo]

I do believe my Chief was on these ships, At least he led us to believe so. Every time we would ask him how long he was in the Navy he would say “he did not know, but during his first deployment he could say for certain that it did rain for 40 days and 40 nights”.

[COBOL2Java]

Uh oh. "Great White Fleet"? What will The Ju$tice Brothers say about this?

[SJSAMPLE]

Coal-fired boilers back then.

[prairie dog]

Isn't the hulk of the former heavy cruiser Olympia the only American naval ship of this era still extant? Too bad one of the White Fleet battleships wasn't preserved as a tribute to America's emergence as a world power.

[ConorMacNessa]

I believe it is - I took the tour on the Olympia when I was a boy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There remains a single coal burner still sailing in American commerce. Can anyone name this ship ?

[Lurking in Kansas]

http://www.phillyseaport.org/ships_olympia.shtml

[Professional Engineer]

Bttt

[Professional Engineer]

Bttt

[RushLake]

By the way, thank you for your service. My son is on his way to LeJeune in about a week.

Info—if anyone is interested—the January/February 2008 issue of Military History Magazine has a good article about the “Great White Fleet”. Given their leftward editorializing I was surprised they didn’t attack T.R. for being the prior incarnation of GWB. Perhaps Charlie Rangel’s constituency was in a stupor and MH couldn’t get their input for the article.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

You sustain peace when your enemy knows you are prepared for war.
Our enemies are always looking for any weakness, and when they see weakness, they pounce.

[ConorMacNessa]

Peace through fire superiority.

[Eye of Unk]

I know its a sailing ship but offhand the oldest commissioned US warship is the USS Constitution.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes

[quikdrw]

All of them should be coal burners, not oil burners. Makes a lot more smoke.

[ConorMacNessa]

Congratulations on your son - thanks for the info on MH.

[Cuttnhorse]

It could be they were “blowing stacks” together for the photo???
Ships periodically “blow stacks” (force air through the exhaust stacks to prevent accumulation of all kinds of nasty stuff) and when they do it is pretty dramatic smoke-wise. When coal burns hot in a fireplace it doesn’t produce a lot of smoke so I wonder if this was done for the photo??

Don’t worry, some FReeper will set us straight.

[Cuttnhorse]

Interesting the masts on the ships...I guess for signal flags??