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                        Several days before my departure I told the Press
Com~erence that I intended to take a cruise on the "Potomac"
but that being unable to accomodate three Press Association
representatives on the small escort ship "Calipso" and feeling
unwil!ing  to use  active destroyer for this purpose, I could
not take the Press Association representatives with me. They asked me whether I was going to go
ashore at any time, and to this I replied definitely in the negative.
 
                        Therefore, on the morning of Sunday, August third, I entrained, accompanied by
General Watson, Captain Beardall and Admiral McIntire,. going on board the U.S.S. Potomac at
New London, Connecticut, that evening while  it was still daylight. Many persons saw me, and we
stood out of the harbor into the Sound in full view of thousands, my Presidential flag flying from
the main top.                               ,
 
                        It was still imperative to establish my location beyond a doubt, so on Monday
morning, August fourth, we entered the harbor of Nonquit, Massachusetts. The launches went
ashore and brought on board, again in full view; of hundreds, the Crown Princess of Norway, her
brother, Prince Carl, her three children and two nurses, and also Mrs. 0stgaard and Mr. Bedell.
We went off-shore two or three miles and fished in full viev; of the beach-- the entrance to New
Bedford harbor, and many passing yachts. At about 6.30 P.M. we returned to Nonquit harbor and
I took the party ashore and was seen by several thousand people. Returning to the "Potomac" we
stood out into the dusk headed toward the Cape Cod Canal.
 
     At eight o'clock we reversed course and, going around the south end of Cuddyhunk
Island, we anchored in the midst of seven U.S. Warships at about 11 P.M., at Memesha Bight on
the western end of Martha's Vineyard.  All ships were darkened.  At dawn Tuesday, August fifth,
the U.S.S. Potomac ran along side of the Flagship "U.S.S. Augusta" and we transferred my mess
crew, provisions, etc.  We found on board Admiral Stalrk and General Marshall, who joined the
"Augusta" via destroyer from New York late the previous evening.  At 6:30 A.M. the U.S.S.
Augusta and the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, accompanied by five new destroyers, stood out into the open
sae.  We headed east passed Nantucket Shoals Lightship until we were headed far outside any
shallow waters where hostile mines couls concievable be laid.  That evening we were 250 miles
out in the ocean.