ON THE morning of Monday, Aug. 7, 1905, the USS Mayflower, USS Dolphin, and USS Galveston pulled anchor at Newport, R.I., and steamed northward. The ships, carrying delegations from Russia and Japan, and U.S. State Department officials, had been delayed by fog in reaching Portsmouth, N.H., a…
The event that took place at Oyster Bay, N.Y., aboard the presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower, on Saturday, Aug. 5, 1905, was carefully orchestrated. President Theodore Roosevelt greeted the key plenipotentiaries representing Russia and Japan.
