The Empire Cruise and the Great White Fleet

To what extent was the Empire Cruise a British Great White Fleet?

It served a similar presence function, but Britain had conducted comparable global cruises long before the American voyage.

The Empire Cruise was more than Britain's version of the Great White Fleet. British squadrons had been making global presence voyages long before either famous cruise, so the Empire Cruise continued an established practice. The American voyage adopted a form of peacetime demonstration that Britain already used. Russian squadrons also made comparable cruises in the later nineteenth century. Both celebrated deployments belonged to a broader international tradition of naval diplomacy.