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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 2091782, member: 23&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads, VA 16 Dec 1907 and visited Trinidad, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Mexico.&nbsp; They departed San Francisco on 7 July 1908.&nbsp; They stopped in Honolulu, Auckland, New South Wales, Melbourne, Manila, Yokohama, China, the Phillipines, Ceylon, Egypt, Gribralter and back to Virginia.&nbsp; My Aunt&#039;s husband was on the USS Maine (NOT the same one that sank in Cuba) The second one was launched in 1901.&nbsp; I have a whole set of postcards of the GWF and many photos of the sailors ashore in foreign ports.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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