Photo #: NH 41683
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great
White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
Photographed from on board USS Connecticut (Battleship
# 18), the Fleet's flagship. Note the officer in Special Full
Dress uniform on the embarkation ladder, at right.
The excursion steamer in the right center background is the General
Lee.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41696
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great
White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
Photographed from on board USS Connecticut (Battleship
# 18), the Fleet's flagship.
The stern of excursion steamer General Lee is visible
at left. Tug Alice is in the right center, just beyond
one of Connecticut's whaleboats.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41687
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great
White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
The excursion steamer at right is the General Lee.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41695
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
Photographers at work on board a welcoming vessel, recording
the fleet's arrival in Hampton Roads.
Note the umbrella protecting cameras from the rain.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41693
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier at Old Point Comfort, as the
fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.
The Hotel Chamberlin is in the background.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41692
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier near the Hotel Chamberlin
at Old Point Comfort, as the fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41694
Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet",
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909
Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier at Old Point Comfort, as the
fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.
The Hotel Chamberlin is in the background.
Note the umbrellas carried by many of these people.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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