Great Christian Fleet
The Great Christian Fleet is the term used for a group of Tagmatine battleships that undertook a circumnavigation of the Eurth in 1911. The so-called fleet consisted of fourteen battleships and numerous supporting vessels and the name was given by to it by the Tagmatine press, with the idea that the ships were the representatives of the nation that followed the true version of Christianity on Eurth, the Enlightened Aroman Church. The Imperial Navy was ordered to undetake this mission by Basil III. The mission of the fleet was to make courtesy visits to the other continents of Eurth, as well as advertising the fact that growing Tagmatine naval power was something for the other Eurth powers to take notice of. Previously, the Imperial Navy not been capable of doing more than defending the approaches to its own shores, let alone policing the few overseas territories the Greater Holy Empire possessed.
Although the fourteen battleships were all less than ten years old, they were already considered to be obsolete due to the launching of the XXX, the first of the XXX-type all big-gun battleships. Nonetheless, the Great Christian Fleet was able to raise the idea of Tagmatium as one of the naval powers of Eurth, as well as give the crews of the ships and the Tagmatine navy as a whole experience in operating far from its shores and home waters. This was especially true when it came to the logistics and and planning of such an operation, especially potential fleet actions. These skills would rarely be needed, as Tagmatium was never involved in large scale wars with nations from the other continents of Eurth.