The Great White Fleet lands at Sydney

1908 The Great White Fleet arrived in Sydney, Australia to an enormous welcome given by about a quarter of a million people, half the city's population. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the event pictorially, using photographs for the first time in its 67-year history.

The Great White Fleet, sent around the world as a goodwill and propaganda exercise by US President Theodore Roosevelt from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The battleships were painted white except for gilded scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships only later came to be known as the "Great White Fleet" ...

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