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Greatest Fleet Ever in Pacific Arrives in Historic Move
The article lists ships and captains with tonnage guns and speeds, detailing battleships armored cruisers protected cruisers and more. It outlines a planned New York to San Francisco voyage of about 15 500 miles with 80 000 tons coal cost roughly 400 000 dollars and daily pay and food costs totaling around 20 000 dollars.
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New Jerey
William W. Kimsall
Rhode Island
Alabama
Samuel P. Comly
Minot
Gottfried Blockinger
Kearsarge
Herbert Winslow
Kentucky
Edward BR. Barry
Ohio
Lewis C. Hellner
Minnesota
John Hubbard
Vermont
William P. Potter
Kansas
Charles B. Vreeland
Washington
Theodore Porter
Tennessee
Albert G. Berry
Pacific Coast
Nebraska
Reginald F. Nicholson
Wisconsin
Drake
Oregon
Merrill
California
Phelps
South Dakota
Vox
Virgina
Charleston
Frank E Really
Chicago
Robert M Toyle
Milwaukee
Charles A. Gove
St. Louis
Nathaniel Ro Usher
Yorktown
Richard T. Stulligan
Iroute
New York
San Francisco
New York Harbor
Atlantic Coast
Cape Horn
Pacific
Honolulu
Key West
Cuban
Cervera
Santiago
Callao
Port Tampa
Sandy Point
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Barbados
Mediterranean
Stexz Canal
Japan
Admiral Evans