People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — BATTLESHIPS READY. [ARTICLE]

BATTLESHIPS READY.

Great Britain’. Squadron Leave. Portsmouth Under Healed Orders. Portsmouth, Jan. 16.—The first-class battleship Revenge, flagship of the flying squadron, carrying 732 officers and HrenymavvAdTUhal- Alftwi T; Bate ta command; the first-class battleship Royal Oak, 712 officers and men, and the torpedo catchers Handy, Harland and Havoc, each carrying fifty men, were commissioned at 9 o’clock yesterday morning. These reserves are under orders to be ready to leave the harbor as soon as possible and will await the arrival of the other portion of the flying squadron, coming from Chatham and Devonpprt, consisting of the firstclass cruiser Thesus, the second-class cruisers Charybdis and Hermipne, and three first-class torpedo-catchers, carrying over 2,000 officers and men. It is understood that Admiral Dale is under orders to take the flying squadron on Saturday from Spithead to Berehaven, on the south coast of Ireland, with sealed orders relative to the future movements of his vessels.