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Photo #: NH 105310

Naval Review in San Francisco Bay, 17 May 1908


Panoramic photograph by the Pillsbury Picture Company, showing the review of the "Great White Fleet" by Secretary of the Navy Victor A. Metcalf, embarked in USS Yorktown (Gunboat # 1), which is steaming toward the left in the right center of the image.
Three destroyers are in the line nearest to the camera (from left to center), with either USS Hopkins or USS Hull in the center and USS Lawrence next astern.
Eleven battleships are present, in the rows on the opposite side of Yorktown's course, and seven Pacific Fleet armored cruisers are in the most distant row.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 15 November 2007