A unit of six bluejackets and six Marines provided an honor guard aboard the train. A mob of African-American bluejackets from the U.S. Navy fought local Annapolis African-Americans. Two battalions of bluejackets from the "North Carolina" joined the "Birmingham" as an honor guard. The Kitsap BlueJackets were an amateur baseball team located in Bremerton, Washington. She published her memoire "Life Among the Bluejackets" in 1909. The Bluejackets won the national service title that year. The British and Americans did likewise, landing bluejackets from and the British light cruiser "Birmingham". Bluejackets accompanied each funeral barge until it reached the railroad pier. The bluejackets closed the lighthouse, left the U.S. flag flying and returned to the ship.