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Show PACIFIC FLEET BEGINS CRUISE Bound for the Orient on Journey to Test Efficiency of Vessels for Work Designed. San Francisco. The eight armored cruisers of the United States Pacific fleet weighed anchor at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and through a heavy fog steamed slowly out of the Golden Gate on a long cruise for Asiatic waters. The fleet will go direct to Honolulu Hono-lulu and thence to the Orient, where it will be joined by the Asiatic squadron, squad-ron, under Admiral Ha'rber. The enlarged en-larged fleet will then engage In battle bat-tle practice in Philippine waters. Each of the octette is an armored cruiser and with two exceptions each is equipped with eighteen guns in the main battery and is of 13,680 tons burden. Two, the Tennessee and the "Washington, have twenty guns in the main battery and are of 14,500 tons burden. Bach ship has 23,000 horsepower. The object of the voyage is to test the efficiency of the vessels in the work for which they were constructed construct-ed to make cruises of any length at the highest possible speed while maintaining a maximum of fighting strength. |