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2007-12-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Great White Fleet (100th Anniversary today)
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Posted by Dick Arbusto, CEO of Hallibushwater 2007-12-16 02:37|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 As luck would have it, I came across a more concise article just as I posted this one.
Navy to Honor 100th Anniversary of Great White Fleet
Posted by Dick Arbusto, CEO of Hallibushwater 2007-12-16 03:44||   2007-12-16 03:44|| Front Page Top

#2 "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-16 04:53||   2007-12-16 04:53|| Front Page Top

#3 To you, men and women who have come here to this great city of this great State formally to launch a new party, a party of the people of the whole Union, the National Progressive Party, I extend my hearty greeting. You are taking a bold and a greatly needed step for the service of our beloved country. The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly what should be said on the vital issues of the day. This new movement is a movement of truth, sincerity, and wisdom, a movement which proposes to put at the service of all our people the collective power of the people, through their Governmental agencies, alike in the Nation and in the several States. We propose boldly to face the real and great questions of the day, and not skillfully to evade them as do the old parties. We propose to raise aloft a standard to which all honest men can repair, and under which all can fight, no matter what their past political differences, if they are content to face the future and no longer to dwell among the dead issues of the past. We propose to put forth a platform which shall not be a platform of the ordinary and insincere kind, but shall be a contract with the people; and, if the people accept this contract by putting us in power, we shall hold ourselves under honorable obligation to fulfill every promise it contains as loyally as if it were actually enforceable under the penalties of the law.
Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-16 05:19||   2007-12-16 05:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Just an excuse to look at BB-11 the original Missouri.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-16 08:09||   2007-12-16 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 ...We need to clone a cross between TR and Ronald Reagan. Just imagine - someone who wants to better the lot of the average person and wants to be a better steward of the environment, but at the same time isn't going to take ANY sh*t from anybody.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-12-16 09:31||   2007-12-16 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 ...We need to clone a cross between TR and Ronald Reagan. Just imagine - someone who wants to better the lot of the average person and wants to be a better steward of the environment, but at the same time isn't going to take ANY sh*t from anybody.

הַלְלוּיָהּ , Hallelujah , Halləlûyāh , הַלְּלוּ , Halleluyah Mike Kozlowski! :)
Posted by RD">RD  2007-12-16 10:15||   2007-12-16 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 I love those old predreadnoughts: ram bows, cylindrical turrets, casemated secondaries, multiple stacks and ventilators, it was the Jules-Verne-in-a-fever-dream period of naval architecture.
Posted by Mike 2007-12-16 11:08||   2007-12-16 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Bet Teddy would'a loved this.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-16 11:08||   2007-12-16 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Good heavens, after finding the above I ran across this. Mississippi nuked in 1964? AC you out there?
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-16 11:17||   2007-12-16 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Jules Verne in a Fever?
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

New fangled Whitehead thingy on NorthHampton.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-16 11:34||   2007-12-16 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 No photos? 1907-9 there were already many photographers.
Posted by Pholugum Stalin1270 2007-12-16 13:27||   2007-12-16 13:27|| Front Page Top

#12 RD, are the dagesh dots showing up correctly in your browser? They aren't in mine [Apple Safari].
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2007-12-16 14:48||   2007-12-16 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.

Two words, Afro-American.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-16 16:16||   2007-12-16 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 From the "Mississippi Nuked site link above"
(A bit off subject, but good)


Quote of the moment
... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), U.S. socialite; daughter and cousin of U.S. Presidents. Crowded Hours, ch. 21 (1933). ~

Thanks to Highland Media

The crack of doom for Shrillary was just heard.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-16 16:22||   2007-12-16 16:22|| Front Page Top

#15 

SANTA MONICA, April 25 — Sailing away into a summer haze that hung over the bay of Santa Monica, the 16 battleships of the Atlantic Fleet steamed slowly past Point Dume shortly after 9 o’clock this morning with a hundred thousand people assembled along the shores to extend them a reluctant farewell.
Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 17:21||   2007-12-16 17:21|| Front Page Top

#16 


Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 17:22||   2007-12-16 17:22|| Front Page Top

#17 

Photo of Great White Fleet off Coronado at night.

U.S. Navy's Great White Fleet makes San Diego its first U.S. stop on a worldwide tour, bringing more than 16,000 sailors into San Diego Harbor on 16 battleships, 7 destroyers and 4 auxiliary ships.
Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 17:23||   2007-12-16 17:23|| Front Page Top

#18 

The Great White Fleet enters San Francisco Bay
Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 17:25||   2007-12-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#19 See also MODELWARSHIPS.com for a replica of a VIRGINA-class Battleship from the period.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-16 18:17||   2007-12-16 18:17|| Front Page Top

#20 At 11 knots in a single file, the fleet approached the island of Trinidad through the Gulf of Paria. With deft seamanship they entered the anchorage dropping their 16 anchors simultaneously. The next morning, as the sun came up, crews expecting crowds of spectators along the shores were surprised to find things ashore looked as if the fleet had never arrived. Their first port visit was met without cheering crowds, bands or dignitaries. Unfortunately, the British Governor had been directed to officially ignore the visit. As such, all official balls and parties planned for the Christmas holiday were canceled and no official party was organized to meet the fleet.




Despite this Admiral Evans put the fleet’s “best foot” forward. During the cruise south each ship had selected members of the cruise to be trained as the Navy’s first shore patrol. With the cool reception he granted liberty to 2000 sailors who went ashore to enjoy the city. Shopping the markets they found fresh fruit, straw hats, monkeys, parrots, parakeets, and high prices. As for postcards and souvenirs, there were very few items commemorating the fleet’s visit.



On the afternoon of December 29th the fleet finished coaling and immediately weighted anchor to leave the port. The fleet was ready to move on. Upon departure Governor Jackson chose to ignore is orders and congratulated Admiral Evans on the “irreproachable behavior of your men . . . I can assure you that your men established a record hard to equal and impossible to beat.”
Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 18:29||   2007-12-16 18:29|| Front Page Top

#21 John Frum - I've been through a lot of the San Diego Historical pic archives, never seen that one - wwhere did you get it? Looking for a new source....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-12-16 18:48||   2007-12-16 18:48|| Front Page Top

#22 www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/images/919b.jpg
Posted by john frum 2007-12-16 19:41||   2007-12-16 19:41|| Front Page Top

#23 obviously I was asleep at the wheel on that one, thx!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-12-16 20:04||   2007-12-16 20:04|| Front Page Top

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