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From: "Mert Marley" <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Whitneys on President Theodore Rossevelt's Great White Fleet
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:38:37 -0000




USA MILITARY: GREAT WHITE FLEET
(Atlantic Fleet bound for the Pacific, 16 December 1907)
The Atlantic Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads, VA on 16 December 1907.
President Theodore Roosevelt sent it out as an around-the-world
goodwill mission. The Atlantic Fleet consisted of sixteen new
battleships painted white with gilded scrollwork on their bows, six
destroyers, and several auxiliary ships. This was likely the last
large fleet to sail around the Horn before the completion of the
Panama Canal in 1914.
This database lists the names of the men who were on those ships as
they sailed in review past President Roosevelt on that December day
in 1907. Each record lists the last name, initials, and ship name,
thus providing a link to many of the men who served the U. S. Navy in
peacetime. Honoring requests from family members who wished to serve
on the same ships has long been a tradition in the Navy. It is likely
that included in the crews were many brothers, fathers and sons,
uncles and nephews.

Battleships:
USS Alabama - Captain Ten Eyck DeW. Veeder
USS Connecticut - Captain Hugo Osterhaus
USS Georgia - Captain Henry McCrea
USS Illinois - Captain John M. Bowyer
USS Kansas - Captain Charles E. Vreeland
USS Kearsarge - Captain Hamilton Hutchins
USS Kentucky - Captain Walter C. Cowles
USS Louisiana - Captain Richard Wainwright
USS Maine - Captain Giles B. Harber
USS Minnesota - Captain John Hubbard
USS Missouri - Captain Greenlief A. Merriam
USS New Jersey - Captain William H. H. Southerland
USS Ohio - Captain Charles W. Bartlett
USS Rhode Island - Captain Joseph B. Murdock
USS Vermont - Captain William P. Potter
USS Virginia - Captain Seaton Schroeder

Fleet Auxiliaries:USS Culgoa (storeship) - Lt. Commander John B. Patton
USS Glacier (storeship) - Commander William S. Hogg
USS Panther (repair ship) - Commander Valentine S. Nelson
USS Yankton (tender/scooner) - Lt. Walter R. Gherardi

Torpedo Flotilla of Destroyers:
Arethusa - (tender) - Commander Albert W. Grant
Hopkins - Lt. Alfred G. HoweHull - Lt. Frank McCommon
Lawrence - Lt. Ernest FriedrickStewart - Lt. Julius F. Hellweg
Truxton - Lt. Charles S. KerrickWhipple - Lt. Hutch I. Cone

Source Information: Royal, Karen, comp. "USA Military: Great White
Fleet 1907." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-.
Original data: Government of Canada. "Men on Board Ships of the
Atlantic Fleet, Bound for the Pacific, 16 December 1907." Department
of Defense, Washington, D.C., 1907To search this database, go to:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5542.htm

Whitney A. L. B. USS Louisiana
Whitney R. USS Missouri
Whitney R. C. USS Ohio

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