The Great White Fleet

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The Great White Fleet

• By Cadet Sweeden

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The Voyage

• The Great White Fleet was a 14 month long voyage.
  The squadrons were manned by 14,000 sailors. They
  covered around 43,000 miles and made twenty port
  calls on six continents.

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The Ships of the Fleet

• USS Kearsarge, USS Kentucky, USS Maine, USS
  Illinois, USS Alabama, USS Missouri, USS Ohio,
  USS Minnesota, USS Virginia, USS Rhode Island,
  USS New Jersey, USS Georgia, USS Connecticut, USS
  Kansas, USS Vermont, USS Louisiana, and others.

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The Fleet Commanders

• Captain Hugo Osterhaus, Captain Charles E.
  Vreeland, Captain William P. Potter, Captain
  Richard Wainwright, and several others.

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The Ports

• Hampton Roads, Virginia
• Port of Spain ,Trinidad
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Punta Arenas, Chile
• Callao, Peru
• Magdalena Bay, Mexico and
• San Francisco, California