Keywords: Great White Fleet Gala Aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt DVIDS81870.jpg en James Foote an actor who impersonates Theodore Roosevelt enters the Great White Fleet Gala through ceremonial sideboys aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 President Theodore Roosevelt sent 16 battleships and 14 000 Sailors on an around-the-world cruise to demonstrate the nation's emergence as a world power Dec 15 1907 The ceremony was the first in a series of events to mark the landmark achievement U S Navy photo 2007-12-12 Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathan Laird https //www dvidshub net/image/81870 071215-N-+++++-002 2008-03-26 22 17 NORFOLK AT SEA PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ Photographs by Nathan Laird |