From the book When the German fleet of battleships and battle- cruisers sallies forth into the North Sea for a final fight against the British Grand Fleet, they will find American dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts ready and eager to lend the material weight of their assistance to the Allied cause. A substantial number of our capital ships, under command of Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, are with the Grand Fleet, and have been for some months. . . . The expansion of the United States Navy has also included an enormous increase in our battle-ships and battle cruisers; definite details are withheld, but it is not too much to say that we are thoroughly equipped to assist Great Britain very vitally in this respect. In the summer of 1917 Secretary Daniels announced that the Atlantic Fleet Our Grand Fleet had been reorganized into two divisions, officially known as forces. . . . There are, said Secretary Daniels in announcing the new arrangement July 18, 1917 twice as many battleships in commission as we ever had before; in fact, every battleship we have is in commission. . . .

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