Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-09 | Page 8 | Battleship Fleet is Ready for Hard Work |

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Date	1909-08-09
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Battleship Fleet is Ready for Hard Work
Type	article
Date	1909-08-09
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	8
OCR Text	Show BATTLESHIP FLEET IS READY FOR HARD WORK OLD POINT COMFORT. 'Va.. Aug. 8. The Atlantic battleship fleet, anchored In two long lines in Hampton Roads off Old Point, was today the scene of animation, ani-mation, the preparations for departure depar-ture for tho hard work on tho drill grounds south of tho Virginia capes being be-ing evident on board every one of the fifteen big fighting machines. The Sabbath Sab-bath was violated by several of the ships that we're busy all day coaling. Tho vessels ves-sels havo boon ordered to sail for the target range tomorrow afternoon, and it was necessary for them to coal todny. Tho battleships now anchored In Hnmp-ton Hnmp-ton Roads are the Connecticut, Vermont, Kansas. Louisiana. Minnesota. New Hampshire. Mississippi. Idaho, Georgia, Nebraska. Now Jersey. Rhode Island, Virginia, Vir-ginia, "Wisconsin and Ohio.
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