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Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, Commander, North Atlantic Fleet, to Secretary of the Navy John D. Long

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,          

August 3, 1898.        

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S E C N A V .

     W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

HAVE THE MEASURMENTS OF THE VESSELS OF THE EASTERN SQUADRON BEEN  MADE UNDER THE SUEZ CANAL RULES;1 IF NOT, DELAY MAY RESULT. PROBABLY CAN BE MEASURED BY THE CONSTRUCTORS FROM THE DRAWINGS.

S A M P S O N .

Source Note: DecyC, DNA, RG 313, Entry 47. Handwritten at the bottom of the cable are cipher notes: “00462)4 00462 ABJUGATE 04587)5 ALGERMARIA/0131)95 40131 GALIMATIAS/95000 VASTLEGGEN 50000. KNEEBRUSH.”

Footnote 1: All Eastern Squadron vessels were of a size that they could pass through the Suez Canal. See: Long to Commo. John C. Watson, 14 July 1898.

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