Civilian Navy Cruise Ended

1916

Training Trip Is Declared to Have Been Highly Successful.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With announcement that the "John Paul Jones cruise," on which 2,500 civilians have been in training since Aug. 13, had been highly successful, orders were issued by the Navy Department terminating the training this week. The six reserve battleships comprising the training fleet landed the men at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston and New York.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 3.