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great white fleet in hawaii, 1908

The Great White Fleet, Waikiki, 1908.

Extracts from
Crawford, Michael J. (editor):
The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet : Honoring 100 years of Global Partnerships and Security.
Foreword by Donald C. Winter.
Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 2008.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015075641756

Introduction.
The Great White Fleet circumnavigated the globe in 1907-1909 as a demonstration of the naval power of the United States, visiting Oahu, Hawaii, between 16th and 22nd July 1908.
To celebrate the occasion, a canoe and surf-riding regatta was held at Waikiki on the 19th July.
Representing the recently formed Outrigger Canoe Club, "Kenneth Winter and Sam Wight, on their long, heavy boards" easily won the surf-board contest.

Also see:
1908 Roman Miller : The Great White Fleet Log.

wikipedia: The Great White Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet

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Postcard collected in Hawaii.

Naval Historical Center.
Roy W Davis Collection.

Over the seas of sunset, over the water blue,
Come to Hawaii's golden isles- we long to welcome you;
For you the fairest garlands, for you the sweetest song,
For you the best aloha, are waiting - come along !
H.M.A.

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Postcard sent from Honolulu, Hawaii,
by Electrician Roy W. Davis,
in U.S. Battleship Vermont,
to hisfuture wife, Etta M. Cowles,
July 22, 1908.

Naval Historical Center, Roy W. Davis Collection.

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One of the great sports is to get a canoe made of a tree trunk hollowed out with an outrigger lashed to it and go surfriding.
The game is to get five or six in a canoe and paddle out about a mile.
There you wait until you see a wave you like, then everyone paddles as hard as they can to get a start.
If things are properly timed a big wave catches the canoe and curved on the shore side and shoots it along the front of it. Sometimes you can go half a mile and you go like the devil.

- Lt. Edward S. Willing, USMC, in USS Illinois, to his father, July 20, 1908 (Willing, 26).

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Naval Historical Center,
Photographic Collection.

Crawford, Michael J. (editor):
The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet : Honoring 100 years of Global Partnerships and Security.
Foreword by Donald C. Winter.
Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Hathitrust
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015075641756

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Geoff Cater (2016) : The Great White Fleet, 1908.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/1908_Great_White_Fleet.html