Great White Fleet
| Images from The Great White Fleet anniversary In 2008 the United States celebrates the centenary of the voyage of the Great White Fleet. Much has changed in 100 years. In support of this 100 year anniversary, American and Australian Navy ships will reenact the Australian visit to Sydney Melbourne and Albany. (Date uploaded: 12 September 2008) View Gallery |
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| USS JOHN S McCAIN escort In 2008 the United States celebrates the centenary of the voyage of the Great White Fleet. Much has changed in 100 years. In support of this 100 year anniversary, American and Australian Navy ships will reenact the Australian visit to Sydney Melbourne and Albany. (Date uploaded: 12 September 2008) View Gallery |
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| Melbourne, VIC visit John Tye welcomed the Great White Fleet’s 100th year anniversary ships to Port Melbourne with traditional dance, singing and didgeridoo playing, accompanied by one of the elders, John Belling. (Date uploaded: 29 August 2008) View Gallery |
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| Centenary Anniversary of the Great White Fleet’s (USN) visit to Australia The "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen gleaming, white modern American battleships & their escorts, that later came to be known as the Great White Fleet. (Date uploaded: 20 August 2008) View Gallery |
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| Great White Fleet arrival and celebrations USS John S. McCain arrives at Fleet Base East, during the centenary of the Great White Fleet celebrations, with the Pacific Fleet band and the RAN band, Sydney detachment. (Date uploaded: 21 August 2008) View Gallery |
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