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Fleet cruise food and wireless trials captivate the fleet
The Pacific voyage of sixteen battleships will feature a $600,000 food bill plus labor costs as crews sail through Magellan via many harbors. Coaling and supply ships accompany the fleet with canned foods and fresh provisions. For the first time wireless telephone will link all ships, easing foggy or distant communications during this long voyage.
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Aemvter Crusine
Barport
Atlantic
Strait
Magellan
San
Francisco
Oregon
Admiral Evans
Gude Sant
Jack
Severin
Buins
Connecticut
Spain
Uncle Sam
Kentucky
Kearsarge
Pacific
Robrey D. Evans
Dewey
William AH. Emory
Charles M. Thomas
Hugo Osterhaus
Louisiana
Richard Wainwright
Kansas
Charles B. Vreeland
Vermont
William P. Potter
Georgia
Enery
Henry McCrea
Virginia
Seatoh Schroeder
New Jersey
W. H. ‘H. Southerland
Rhode’ Island
Joseph B. Murdock
Minnesota
Admiral Thomas
Jom Hebbart
Obie Lewis O. Retiner
Mains
Giles B. Barber
Missouri
Greenliot A. Merriming
Alabama
Ten Buck D
W. Yeoder
Illnois
J. A. Bowyer
H. Hutchings
W. Co
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