Instead Of Review, Ships To Go To Sea.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 29, 1913:
Entire Atlantic Fleet Scheduled to Visit European Ports.
STOPS HUDSON RIVER SHOW
Summer Manoeuvres, However, Will Take Place as Usual, as Joint Army and Navy Affair.
    The Hudson River naval mobilization, which has attracted so many thousands of visitors to New York in the last two years, will not take place this year. The plans for the 1913 review by the President and Secretary of the Navy called for the mobilization at New York in October of all the vessels in the Atlantic Fleet, three reviews in all being on the tentative programme, two by the President, and one by the Secretary of the Navy.
    This plan has been abandoned, and following a suggestion from Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, the new Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, a cruise by the entire fleet of twenty-one dreadnoughts and first-line battle-ships will be made to European waters in the coming Fall. The cruise will begin some time in October, and will end about Christmas time, the ships returning in time to give officers and men a chance to spend the holidays on shore.
    Rear Admiral Fiske, the aid for operations in Washington, is working out the programme of the cruise which will be submitted shortly to the Secretary of the Navy for his approval. In addition to the dreadnoughts and battle-ships, it is said that one or more flotillas of torpedo-boat destroyers from the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet may accompany the armorclads on their visit to European ports.
    But while New York will be deprived of the big naval show this year, the annual Summer manoeuvres off the Long Island Coast will take place as usual the first of August. The work this year will be a joint navy and army affair, and will call into action the coast artillerymen from all of the fortifications on the Atlantic seaboard, as well as most of the ships of both the battleship and torpedo organizations.
    The land operations will be directed from the forts in the Long Island-Narragansett Coast Artillery Districts, Major William Chamberlaine, Coast Artillery Corps, U.S.A., having been designated to map out the programme to be followed by the artillerymen. The manoeuvre will last about a week, and, theoretically, a lot of big towns, including New York, will figure in the battles, which will show just how efficient are the sea and land arms of the service.
    Within the next few weeks there will be a shift of many flagships in the Atlantic Fleet. In the first division the new and bigger superdreadnought Arkansas will supplant the Florida as the flagship of Rear Admiral Cameron McR. Winslow, the division commander. The Louisiana will take the place of the Vermont as flagship of the second division, and the Rhode Island will become flagship of the third division, in place of the Virginia.