William P. Potter
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William Parker Potter was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He served as chief of the Bureau of Navigation from July to December 1909. Potter previously commanded battleship USS Vermont and th
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Photograph from the 12 April 1898 edition of Uncle Sam's Navy of the Sampson Board's court of inquiry meeting aboard the lighthouse tender USLHT Mangrove in Havana Harbor, ca. March 1898. From left are Captain French Ensor Chadwick, Captain William T. Sampson, Potter, Ensign W. V. Powelson, and Lieutenant Commander Adolph Marix.
Great White Fleet
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The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships that completed a journey around the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of President
William P. Potter
…Navigation from July to December 1909. Potter previously commanded battleship USS Vermont and then Fourth Division, Atlantic Fleet during the voyage of Great White Fleet. William P. Potter was born on May 10, 1850, in Whitehall, New York, the son of Joseph and Catharine Potter. He entered the United States Naval Academy…
Flagship Connecticut: one of a set of commemorative postcards of the ships of the Great White Fleet
Kansas sails ahead of Vermont as the fleet leaves Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 16 December 1907.
A 1908 postcard welcomes the fleet to Australia.
The Fleet Passing Through the Magellan Straits by naval artist Henry Reuterdahl, who traveled with the fleet on USS Culgoa