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...U.S.S. Tacoma, 20-year-old light cruiser which ran on Blanquilla Reef off Vera Cruz while on duty in Mexican waters (TIME, Jan. 28), was struck by a heavy norther while still aground. Captain Herbert G. Sparrow and 19 men remained aboard trying to float the ship. During the storm, which lasted two days and drove the tugs, standing by, to harbor, the Captain and three radio men lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under...
...more offensive than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico. The U. S. State Department protested. The cruiser Omaha and six destroyers arrived on the scene. The Rebels abandoned their mine laying scheme. ¶ The Rebels were reinforced by 1,500 Obregonistas, who deserted from the Federal forces. They were all armed with weapons...
Meanwhile Cabinet meetings in Washington strove to find a course that would avoid all shoals and reefs for the ship of state. Rebel gunboats had blockaded Tampico, 300 miles from Vera Cruz, and threatened to hold up American shipping going to and from the oil fields. After the Cabinet meetings, Secretary Hughes consulted with representatives of the Petroleum Producers in Mexico...
...decided to send the light cruiser Richmond, with Admiral Magruder, to Vera Cruz from Panama. Two days later the Omaha and six destroyers were ordered to follow. The Omaha and Richmond are two of the most modern and fastest units of the light cruiser fleet, commissioned within a year...
Tampico Affair. General Adolfo de la Huerta, Rebel chief, decided to blockade the important post of Tampico on the east coast, about 200 miles north of Vera Cruz, headquarters of the Rebels. He issued the following decree...