This is the first battle fleet that has ever circumnavigated the globe.

Those who perform the feat again can but follow in your footsteps.
"The little torpedo flotilla went with you around South America, through the Straits of Magellan, to our own Pacific Coast.

The armored cruiser squadron met you, and left you again, when you were half way round the world.

You have falsified every prediction of the prophets of failure.
In all your long cruise not an accident worthy of mention has happened to a single battleship, nor yet to the cruisers or torpedo boats.

You left this coast in a high state of battle efficiency, and you return with your efficiency increased; better prepared than when you left, not only in personnel but even in material.