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Author | : James R. Reckner |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9781557509727 |
Drawing on previously untapped sources, naval historian James Reckner provides a complete picture of the fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. His fresh interpretations of the fleet's historic 1907-09 world cruise, which won him the 1989 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, allow today's readers to fully appreciate the significance of the famous fleet that set sail during Teddy Roosevelt's second term as president. Reckner recreates the colorful pageantry of the event--sixteen U.S. battleships on a fourteen-month voyage around the world--that drew thousands of sightseers at every port of call, but his main emphasis is on the cruise's long-range impact on the Navy. He shows how the cruise revealed the fleet's shortcomings and forced the naval establishment to acknowledge the faults and make concessions that eventually led to permanent benefits.
Author | : James R. Reckner |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The story of the famous fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Brian Lane Herder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472839994 |
The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the 20th century. These battleships were the stars of the 1907–09 Great White Fleet circumnavigation, in which the emerging power and reach of the US Navy was displayed around the world. They also took part in the bombardment and landings at Veracruz, some served as convoy escorts in World War I, and the last two were transferred to the Hellenic Navy and were sunk during World War II. This book examines the design, history, and technical qualities of the final six classes of US predreadnought battleships, all of which were involved in the circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet. These classes progressively closed the quality gap with European navies – the Connecticuts were the finest predreadnought battleships ever built – and this book also compares and contrasts US predreadnought battleships to their foreign contemporaries. Packed with illustrations and specially commissioned artwork, this is an essential guide to the development of US Navy Battleships at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author | : Michael J. Crawford |
Publisher | : Department of the Navy |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2008-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Under orders from President Theodore Roosevelt, sixteen battleships of the United States’ Atlantic Battle Fleet and their consorts made a peace-time circumnavigation of the globe, from December 1907 to February 1909. Text, illustrations, and captions tell the story of this fourteen-month world cruise. Separate chapters provide an overview of the origins, course, and accomplishments of the cruise, describe the ships that circumnavigated the globe, depict the character and experiences of the sailors who participated, narrate the cruise’s principal events and itinerary, and analyze the Great White Fleet’s significance organizationally for the United States Navy and diplomatically for the United States of America.
Author | : Samuel Carter (III) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
The story of the two year round the world voyage of 16 ships from Theodore Roosevelt's refurbished Navy--a cruise that marked Americas' coming of age as a world power.
Author | : Kenneth Wimmel |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
But scarcely a generation earlier, in 1880, the U.S. Navy had reached the nadir of a precipitous decline that had begun just after the Civil War.
Author | : Mark Albertson |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1604621451 |
'Others may do as you have done, but they'll have to follow you!' so proclaimed Teddy Roosevelt to the sailors and marines assembled on the afterdeck of USS Connecticut, flagship of the Great White Fleet. The United States Navy had come of age, as sixteen coal-burning battleships carried the Stars and Stripes to the far-flung ends of the globe in the most extraordinary peacetime demonstration of naval power in modern times. It is a story set in the closing stages of the Golden Age of Imperialism, a time when the Great Powers engaged in a battleship-building binge that not only set the world tottering on the brink of global catastrophe, but foreshadowed the later contest in nuclear arms between the United States and the Soviet Union. In this companion volume to USS Connecticut: Constitution State Battleship, Mark Albertson captures one of the finest moments of the United States Navy. In the first major strategic initiative by the United States in the twentieth century, the Atlantic Fleet Battleship Force circumnavigated the globe, steaming more than 46,000 miles in the most monumental achievement in modern maritime history, a triumph that helped make the United States a global power, and eventually, a super power. Step aboard one of the ships comprising the Great White Fleet and travel round the world in They'll Have to Follow You!
Author | : Jean-Pierre Andrieux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781771172370 |
"The Portuguese White Fleet, whose name derived from its vessels' white hulls, is an important part of Newfoundland and Labrador history. Gaspar Corte-Real's followers had been fishing off the Grand Banks for more than 400 years, but it was not until the 1900s that Portuguese fishermen began persecuting the North American cod fishery in force. When these ships made calls to St. John's, the sailors and fishermen became a prominent part of the city's way of life. However, the year 1955 marked the end of an era for the Portuguese White Fleet when Canada began to protest foreign overfishing and exploitation of its fishery. Following a bitter international dispute over territorial fishing grounds, the last ship of the White Fleet left St. John's on July 23, 1974. The White Fleet by J. P. Andrieux is a pictorial history of the centuries-long relationship between the Newfoundland and Portuguese fisheries."--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Michael J. Crawford |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 9780945274667 |
Under orders from President Theodore Roosevelt, sixteen battleships of the United States Atlantic Battle Fleet and their consorts made a peace-time circumnavigation of the globe, from December 1907 to February 1909. Text, illustrations, and captions tell the story of this fourteen-month world cruise.
Author | : United States. Naval History Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Warships |
ISBN | : |