Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence of the Empire depends on this battle. Japan expects this day the courage and energy of every officer and every man in the fleet, Togo...
...dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
Honor of leading the Fleet into New York Harbor and to its Hudson River anchorage fell to the President, whose ship was now saluted by roaring power dives from 15 crack planes of the Fleet. But all naval eyes were still on the Indianapolis' fore truck. By tradition one more thing was necessary to complete the ceremony. Three little flags broke out spelling Y W X, Yoke William Xray, the Navy's "Well Done" signal. That meant the President was pleased...
...attempt to recapture Port Arthur and replace Russia's already shattered Pacific fleet all that was left of the imperial Russian navy sailed from the Baltic under command of Admiral Ziniry Petrovich Rozhestvensky. One half cut through the Mediterranean while the other rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The halves met off Annam and crept cautiously up the China coast...
...Japanese commander-in-chief, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky was a brave, capable and intelligent adversary. He knew that the Russian fleet was slightly superior numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with...