USS Yorktown (PG-1)
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USS Yorktown was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Yorktown.
USS Yorktown, c. 1890–1901
Yorktown (right) and Vesuvius being launched in Philadelphia, 28 April 1888
Yorktown participated in the ceremonies centered on the repatriation of the remains of John Ericsson to his native Sweden in August 1890.
As a lieutenant, Bradley Fiske tested a successful telescopic gun sight on Yorktown in 1892.
Robley D. Evans (admiral)
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Robley Dunglison Evans, born in Floyd County, Virginia, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, who served from the American Civil War to the Spanish–American War. In 1907–1908, he commanded the Great White Fleet on its worldwide cruise from the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits of Magellan to the Pacific Ocean.
Robley D. Evans (admiral)
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Evans (left) and President Theodore Roosevelt aboard Roosevelt's yacht, The Mayflower