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"USS Louisiana, Suez 1909. " Louisiana enters the southern end ofthe Suez Canal. Loui siana was one of sixteen coal-burning battleships that sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, in December 1907, on a world tour. The fleet became known by the press as President Theodore Roosevelt 's "Great White Fleet."
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