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When the Great White Fleet put to sea in 1908, just 43 years after Appomattox, the transition to the all-steel Navy had already been accomplished. The Naval Medical School in Washington, which co-located with the Naval Museum of Hygiene in the Old Naval Observatory building had as its new mission “the instruction and training of newly appointed medical officers in professional branches peculiar to naval requirements.”