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Show Battleships Homeward Bound. Gibraltar.With the bands on board playing "Home, Sweet Home," the American fleet of sixteen battleships, un.ler Real Admiral Sperry, left Gibraltar Gib-raltar Saturday, February 6, for Hampton Pearls, on the last lap of its famous aroundthe-world cruise of 45,-000 45,-000 miles. They will follow the southern south-ern route to Hampton Roads, a distance dis-tance of 3. COO miles, and about 1,000 miles off the American coast they will be met and escorted home by the third souadron of the Atlantic fleet, tinder Rear Admiral Arnold. |