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Show 175 SHIPS ID PICIFB FLEET Western Armada's Full Strength 34,000 Men and 1800 Officers. WASHINGTON, July If?. Approximately Approximate-ly 175 ships with an aggregate tonnage of more than 500.ui.io will constitute the newly new-ly organized Pacific fleet, it was said today at the navy department. At full strength the a nnada will be manned by about 34,000 men and isoo commissioned officer:?, but .the personnel will be about 'in per cent below this strength when the fleet begins it.3 history-making voyage from Hampton roads next Saturday. Included in the fleet will be these ships: I readnough tg New Mexico. Wyoming, Arkansas, Mississippi, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and New York. 1 "redread noughts Vermont, Nebraska, Georgia, Rhode Island, Virginia and New Jersey. Cruisers Seattle, Cleveland, Denver. Ta-onma, Ta-onma, Marblehead. Machias. Vlcksburg, Montana, North Carolina and Pueblo. There will be 108 destroyers of the new MoO-ton, flush-deck type, built after the United States entered tne war. They will be divided into two squadrons, with the scout cruisers Birmingham and Salem as flagships and with the Melville, Prairie, Buffalo and Blackhawk a tenders. In the fleet also will be fourteen submarines sub-marines of the S type, with the Savannah as tender. The mine detachment will consist of the cruiser Baltimore aa flagship, flag-ship, the minelayer Aroostook and the minesweepers Ortolan, Partridge, Redwing Seagull, Thrust, Whippoorwill, Tanager, Lapwing, Tern, Bittern, Sandpiper and Vireo. The fleet train will consist of the cruiser Minneapolis as flagship and the repair ship Vestal, hospital ships Comfort and Mercy, supply ships Rappahannock, Glacier and . Celtic; fuel ships Arethuaa, Maumee, Neches, Kanawha, Brutus, Vulcan Vul-can and Mars; target repair ship Nan-shan, Nan-shan, radio repair ship Saturn and eleven tugs. |