"By 9 December all sixteen battleships had headed south, where the gathering in Hampton Roads quickly captured the attention of the nation.  As they arrived the battleships took up precise positions, corresponding to the standard steaming formation known as line of squadrons: two parallel lines of eight battleships, anchored with the squadron flagships, Connecticut and Minnesota, near Old Point Comfort and the mouth of Hampton Roads.  With the fleet there, Fort Monroe and the Chamberlin Hotel in Hampton because the center of its social life."  Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet

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