Show PREPARING FOR WORlDS CRUISE Battleships of Atlantic Fleet Are Assembling at San Francisco to Continue Voyage By July 3 All of the War Vessels of the Atlantic Fleet Will be Ready for the Long Journey Back to the Atlantic Coast San Francisco Assembling of tho Atlantic fleet of sixteen warships nnd sIx auxiliaries In this harbor for tho start of July 7 on tho voyage around two lhirds of tho world from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Hampton Roads already has begun Seven of tho battleships including in-cluding tho flag ship of Rear Admiral Charles S Speery the Connecticut are here and all of the auxiliaries are In tho vicinity In addition to tho Connecticut tho battleships now In the harbor are the Louisiana tile Ohio tho Minnesota tho Kansas tho Vermont Ver-mont and the Georgia Tho West Virginia Vir-ginia Is nt Mare Island Supplies are already being taken aboard the supply ship Cugoa and tho refrigerator supply ship Glacier and tho AJax collier tho Panther repair Ship the Relief hospital ship and tho Yorktown dispatch boat arc being put In readiness for tho long voyage By July 3 nt the latest all of tho warships of the Atlantic fleet will be In this port and the ships of the Facile Fa-cile fleet also will bo assembled hero before that date to remain until after the departure of the Atlantic fleet Tho Virginia which Is now at Bremer ton yard will arrive hero the latter part of tho month The Nebraska New Jersey and Rhode Island are now at Bremerton nnd will arrive here together to-gether June 30 The Wisconsin now on Puget Sound Is due the 26th tho Illinois the 24th the Kearsarge the 23d and the Kentucky July 2 At Bremerton or the dry dock at Marc Island or Hunters Point tha battleships have been hauled out and cleaned or have yet to undergo that operation July 4 tho combined fledtsof thetAl lantlc and the Pacific will take part In the celebration hero and three days later the battleships of the Atlantic fleet will sail for Honolulu whore they are scheduled to arrive July 14 |