World War I
Following the United States entry into World War I, Florida completed exercises in the Chesapeake Bay and proceeded with Battleship Division 9 (BatDiv 9) to join the British Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands on 7 December 1917. She participated in the Grand Fleet maneuvers and evolutions, and performed convoy duty with the 6th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet through the remainder of the war. She rendezvoused with the Grand Fleet on 20 November 1918, when it met to escort the German High Seas Fleet into the Firth of Forth.
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“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)