What is this fine hair growing all over my baby's body? It's commonly produced during the last stage of pregnancy and most full-term babies are born with it. It tends to cover certain parts of the body, including the back, shoulders, ears, and forehead.
Map of the Great White Fleet's voyage (modern political boundaries shown). The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts.dditionally, the voyage of the Great White Fleet demonstrated both at home and on the world stage that the US had become a major sea power in the years after its triumph in the Spanish-American War, with possessions that included Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
The second leg of the voyage was from San Francisco to Puget Sound and back. On May 23, 1908 the 16-battleships of the Great White Fleet steamed into the Puget Sound where they separated to visit six Washington state ports: Bellingham, Bremerton, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Seattle and Tacoma.The fleet arrived in Seattle on May 23 and departed May 27, 1908.wo months before the fleet sailed, Roosevelt ordered the Navy Department to contract 38 ships to supply the fleet with the 125,000 tons of coal it would need to steam from Hampton Roads, Virginia to San Francisco.