Our Record Naval Fleet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 18, 1912:
This Year's Mobilization of Warships Here to be Greatest Ever Held.
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— According to the perfected plans of the Navy Department for the mobilization and review of the Atlantic Fleet in the North River at New York next month, 127 ships of all classes having a total displacement of 741,590 tons, will take part in that record-breaking affair.
    At the review last October the vessels that participated numbered 104. This year's fleet will be the biggest ever gathered m American waters. In detail it will comprise 32 battleships, 4 armored cruisers, 4 cruisers, 21 vessels of special types, 6 naval militia vessels, 8 fuel ships, 26 torpedo boat destroyers, 16 torpedo boats, and 10 submarines. Following is a list of the ships that will participate in the review:

BATTLESHIPS. — Connecticut, Arkansas, Wyoming, Florida, Utah, Delaware, North Dakota, Michigan, South Carolina, Louisiana, Vermont, New Hampshire, Kansas, Minnesota, Idaho, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri, Ohio, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, Alabama, Kearsarge, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts.

ARMORED CRUISERS. — Washington, Montana, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

CRUISERS. — Salem, Birmingham, Chester, and Baltimore.

GUNBOATS. — Dolphin, Nashville, Petrel, and Montgomery.

TORPEDO PRACTICE SHIP. — San Francisco.

MINE-LAYING SHIP. — Mayflower.

CONVERTED YACHTS. — Yankton and Dixie.

DESTROYER TENDER. — Castine.

SUBMARINE TENDERS. — Severn and Tonopah.

TRANSPORT. — Prairie.

SUPPLY SHIPS. — Celtic and Culgoa.

HOSPITAL SHIP. — Solace.

REPAIR SHIP. — Panther.

AMMUNITION SHIP, — Lebanon.

FLEET TUGS. — Sonoma, Ontario, Patapsco, and Patuxent.

GUNBOATS. — Machias and Marietta.

CONVERTED YACHTS. — Gloucester, Wasp, and Aileen.

DESTROYERS. — Smith, Lamson, Flusser, Preston, Reid, Paulding, Drayton, Roe, Terry, McCall, Perkins, Sterett, Mayrant, Walke, Ammen, Burrows, Monaghan, Patterson, Trippe, Fanning, Jouett, Beale, Jenkins, Jarvis, Worden, and Macdonough.

TORPEDO BOATS. — Tingey, Craven, Shubrick, Thornton, De Long, Stickton, Dahlgren, Bailey, Bagley, Barney, Biddle, Stringham, Porter, Blakely, Dupont, Morris.

SUBMARINES. — C-1, C-2. C-3, C-4, C-5, D-1, D-2, D-3, E-1, and E-2.

FUEL SHIPS. — Orion, Cyclops, Sterling, Vulcan, Hector, Caesar, Brutus, and Ajax.

The thirty-two battleships range all the way from the Indiana and Massachusetts, sisters of the famous old Oregon, with 10,288 tonnage displacement, up to the super-dreadnoughts Arkansas and Wyoming, each with a tonnage displacement of 26,000.