Word: cervera
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When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
Hatless, breathless, he rushed to the cable office and signaled the world that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
...present generation has not gazed at a more gallant act than Cervera at Santiago. Compare it with Scapa Flow...
...participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head of Schley, who had ranked him for 42 years. That started a controversy in which Schley's adherents asserted that...
...Spaniard Cervera off Santiago. Under her third name, Rochester, she is still of the "second line...