Dedicated to the author's father who used to be a cook on one of the old Merchant Ships... Together with our book, Great White Fleet, we try to give you a complete story of the round the world cruise of Teddy RooseveltÕs Great White Fleet, richly decorated using our old hand tinted Òwhite & spar vanishÓ postcard reproductions of all 16 of the USN battleships, complete with accurate, individual descriptive text for each ship, and an ÒimaginaryÓ Christmas dinner aboard one of them.