USA military: Great White Fleet - Atlantic
Fleet bound for the Pacific,
December 16, 1907
Great White Fleet - The Atlantic
Fleet when it sailed from Hampton
Roads, VA on December 16,
1907, sent on an around the world goodwill
mission by President Theodore
Roosevelt, consisted of sixteen new
battleships painted white
with gilded scrollwork on their bows, six
destroyers, and several auxiliary
ships. This was likely the last large
fleet to sail around the Horn
before the completion of the Panama Canal
in 1914. This is a list of
of the BOYDs who were on those ships as they
sailed in review past President
Roosevelt on that December day in 1907.
Name:
Ship:
BOYD, B.
Louisiana
BOYD, C.
Kentucky
BOYD, F.
Lawrence
BOYD, G.W.
Kearsarge
BOYD, H.
Panther
BOYD, J.H.
Panther
Source: Government of Canada.
Men on Board Ships of the Atlantic
Fleet, Bound for the Pacific,
16 December 1907. Department of Defense,
Washington, D.C., 1907
Thanks to Karen Schrode from Ohio