| Show I FLEET I AT T HAMPTON ROADS I i I Norfolk Va Ta June runo With two I months of hard work worl before it the tho At Atlantic I lantic battleship fleet is iR in Roads Rouls Virginia for the thc sum anai I I I mer iner maneuvers will be oxon exten extensive sive The Thc fleet neet may be divided Into I two squadrons and nd light against each other and a 11 dozen torpedo boats will ill I Im make m leo attacks on tile the battleships I whoso whose men and officers will vIli be bo re Ie required to exert extreme vigilance vl also alsoto alsoto I to guard the lie stealthy stealth lIttle submarine torpedo boats bouts four of oC I which with parent ships shillS Ire arc attached I Ito to tho the loot fleet Under Rear I Seaton Schroeder Seh I Ithe I of the lie Atlantic fleet will be bo nearly nearl I half a hundred ships of war wal ranging ran I J in size from rote the tho big flagship i Connecticut to tho the little I 1 I I submarine Tarantula I V I j Fleet drills and aud exercises Involving I I tactical problems and battle eol i j Ions will be he held In New Ne England wa I II leis lers during the Iho latter palL pail of July Juh and I II V VV I V the tho th early part hart of August Th iu the tho fleet 11 IO will proceed d to 0 the Ol southern drill I I V grounds south of or the Virginia Capes for Ol record and battle target practice I This shooting will 11 occupy about ab ul two tuo Ja beginning August 19 At t Its close the tho vessels will wUl return to Hamp Hampton I ton Roads inch and go 0 thence ll ence to their homo home I I yards for my ally repairs necessary before I Ithe the tho winter maneuvers in West Vest Indian waters Only two h ships of the 1110 pres lires present V ent e the tho lie U ill around the Uio world The other four in command bare are new vessels rho Tho older ships have been thoroughly II repaired and the new newly newly newly ly adopted fire control mast which has hus been called the tho inverted waste has bas basket bosket haskeL ket keL installed This summer is the first opportunity for a crucial lest test of these l The Th lp vr proceed ce from Hampton Roads next Tuesday for or New England ports where there they thoy tho will spend the Fourth The Tue battleships at fit Rockport Mass July 7 wIll Till begin the work of or tho the summer Together they will proceed to which will be headquarters until mUl Au August August August gust 5 From the fleet will proceed to sea each week Tho trips will occur after tie the t e fleet feet drills and evolutions and the citizen sailors of the lie naval militias of several enstein states will be taken out for or a week for instructions on the big ships At Al Provincetown the torpedo I flotilla of twelve boats with the th cruiser Dixie as the parent ship and anda i a submarine submarino fleet neel of toni four new boats boa ts i with the lie gunboat Castine as the par parent parent parent ent ship will join the th fleet hoot At the ho J conclusion of the exorcises exercIses the big biS I fleet Heet will proceed to Hampton Roads I Ito to coal caul preparatory 1 to eL practice I Ii i For the in hi of dc tile the navy the firms firing will on ion tho the I open seu elL aV VOuch and in ine of oC weather sa roas aa m al ju as ai aJ I neatly ne ai M a l Night firing under ct the lie same contil II lions will bo ho carried on For Foi the tar lar target larget target get practice the tho two old torpedo boats ont Nicholson antI and OBrien been ills mantled eil and anti prepared as targets Their hulls have hao been Jeen filled with cork anti and this It is expected will keep koep them afloat after they lucy have been Leen riddled with projectiles projectile They rho will be towed owed at different speeds and mid will wi bo hO fired I at rt by b the battleships running at varl vari arl i ious I Otis ous speeds Results of oC the practice j jwill will vill be lie kept kepl secret While at Rock Rockport Rockport port Mass July 7 or oi later latec at Pro j President Taft may ma find It I convenient to review Admiral I dos dors fleet from either elthor his small yacht Sylph S lph or his big hig yacht acht Mayflower I |
